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| The best articles from theatlantic.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2018 | | Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (theatlantic.com) |
| 552 points | 2 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2018 | | Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (theatlantic.com) |
| 502 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2019 | | The great American eye-exam scam (theatlantic.com) |
| 448 points across 3 posts | 7 months ago with 80 comments |
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| 2019 | | Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think (theatlantic.com) |
| 415 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 326 comments |
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| 2018 | | The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone (theatlantic.com) |
| 399 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 70 comments |
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| 2011 | | A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (theatlantic.com) |
| 378 points | 3 years ago with 414 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (theatlantic.com) |
| 348 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2019 | | A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (theatlantic.com) |
| 295 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 163 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 294 points across 3 posts | 6 months ago with 55 comments |
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| 2015 | | Programmers should not call themselves engineers (theatlantic.com) |
| 281 points across 7 posts | 7 months ago with 67 comments |
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| 2014 | | Masters of Love: Lasting relationships come down to kindness, generosity (theatlantic.com) |
| 276 points | 5 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2000 | | Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (theatlantic.com) |
| 264 points | 6 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2015 | | Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (theatlantic.com) |
| 259 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Turn (theatlantic.com) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2018 | | I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 2 years ago with 275 comments |
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| 2006 | | The management myth (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 7 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (theatlantic.com) |
| 223 points | 11 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1982 | | Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (theatlantic.com) |
| 209 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 11 comments |
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| 1919 | | The Basic Problem of Democracy (theatlantic.com) |
| 206 points | 4 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 2014 | | Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (theatlantic.com) |
| 206 points | 6 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2019 | | Work peak and professional decline (theatlantic.com) |
| 198 points | 3 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2013 | | How Not to Die of Botulism (theatlantic.com) |
| 195 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2011 | | All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (theatlantic.com) |
| 193 points | 5 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 2016 | | The World’s Most Efficient Languages (theatlantic.com) |
| 186 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1981 | | M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (theatlantic.com) |
| 180 points | 5 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2018 | | Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (theatlantic.com) |
| 180 points | 1 year ago with 309 comments |
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| 2019 | | No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime (theatlantic.com) |
| 177 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2014 | | Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath (theatlantic.com) |
| 171 points | 6 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2013 | | Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences (theatlantic.com) |
| 168 points | 8 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2019 | | A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked (theatlantic.com) |
| 163 points across 4 posts | 6 months ago with 7 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (theatlantic.com) |
| 160 points | 6 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2015 | | How Friendships Change Over Time (theatlantic.com) |
| 155 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945 (theatlantic.com) |
| 154 points | 1 year ago with 157 comments |
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| 2017 | | Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (theatlantic.com) |
| 151 points | 5 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Weight I Carry (theatlantic.com) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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| 2015 | | How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language (theatlantic.com) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Myth of the Barter Economy (theatlantic.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2013 | | Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions (theatlantic.com) |
| 146 points | 8 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2013 | | Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (theatlantic.com) |
| 142 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2017 | | When Britain and France Almost Merged into One Country (theatlantic.com) |
| 142 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2005 | | Lost in the Meritocracy (theatlantic.com) |
| 138 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks (theatlantic.com) |
| 136 points | 5 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2016 | | American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (theatlantic.com) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2017 | | Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong (theatlantic.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 4 months ago with 89 comments |
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| 2013 | | The War on Drugs Is Far More Immoral Than Most Drug Use (theatlantic.com) |
| 130 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1948 | | Death of a Pig (theatlantic.com) |
| 129 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2013 | | Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward (theatlantic.com) |
| 129 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1998 | | Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (theatlantic.com) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2014 | | When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (theatlantic.com) |
| 125 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1999 | | Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (theatlantic.com) |
| 124 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments |
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