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| The best articles from theguardian.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2014 | | All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (theguardian.com) |
| 826 points | 2 years ago with 446 comments |
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| 2013 | | News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (theguardian.com) |
| 632 points across 2 posts | 2 months ago with 254 comments |
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| 2013 | | I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (theguardian.com) |
| 601 points across 2 posts | 2 weeks ago with 124 comments |
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| 2019 | | Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US (theguardian.com) |
| 577 points across 4 posts | 7 months ago with 22 comments |
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| 2007 | | Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (theguardian.com) |
| 571 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 7 comments |
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| 2010 | | Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (theguardian.com) |
| 531 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2017 | | Where oil rigs go to die (theguardian.com) |
| 382 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 16 comments |
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| 2014 | | The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (theguardian.com) |
| 289 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 213 comments |
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| 2000 | | PoW gets his life back after 55 years (theguardian.com) |
| 285 points | 2 days ago with 103 comments |
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| 2014 | | Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (theguardian.com) |
| 280 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 206 comments |
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| 2019 | | Britain can help you get away with stealing millions (theguardian.com) |
| 267 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2017 | | Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (theguardian.com) |
| 259 points | 2 years ago with 178 comments |
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| 2012 | | Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (theguardian.com) |
| 247 points | 7 years ago with 209 comments |
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| 2016 | | Welcome to the land that no country wants: Bir Tawil (theguardian.com) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 77 comments |
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| 2017 | | Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (theguardian.com) |
| 241 points | 4 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2018 | | World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (theguardian.com) |
| 238 points | 2 years ago with 407 comments |
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| 2014 | | Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (theguardian.com) |
| 234 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2015 | | Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (theguardian.com) |
| 227 points | 5 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2011 | | The rape of men: a dark secret of war (theguardian.com) |
| 215 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2016 | | Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (theguardian.com) |
| 211 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2003 | | Why dolphins are deep thinkers (theguardian.com) |
| 200 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2018 | | Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (theguardian.com) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2010 | | The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy (theguardian.com) |
| 176 points | 7 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2012 | | How doctors choose to die (theguardian.com) |
| 161 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2012 | | Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (theguardian.com) |
| 161 points | 2 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 2014 | | I was forced to shut down Lavabit (theguardian.com) |
| 160 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2012 | | Life on board a British nuclear submarine (theguardian.com) |
| 159 points | 1 month ago with 185 comments |
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| 2013 | | Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (theguardian.com) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1979 | | 'Too negative ': Welsh seaside images (theguardian.com) |
| 152 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2016 | | McDonald's holds communities together (theguardian.com) |
| 147 points | 3 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2007 | | Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (theguardian.com) |
| 132 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2015 | | Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile (theguardian.com) |
| 131 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2008 | | From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (theguardian.com) |
| 130 points | 10 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2016 | | Thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities (theguardian.com) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2019 | | I was an astrologer – here's how it really works (theguardian.com) |
| 126 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2004 | | Citizen Kubrick (theguardian.com) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2013 | | China's Great Famine (theguardian.com) |
| 119 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why I’m making my family German (theguardian.com) |
| 117 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 186 comments |
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| 2014 | | The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong (theguardian.com) |
| 114 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2015 | | The end of capitalism has begun (theguardian.com) |
| 113 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2001 | | The Spanish cooking oil scandal (theguardian.com) |
| 111 points | 7 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2009 | | Index cards are pretty cool (theguardian.com) |
| 110 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2019 | | Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population (theguardian.com) |
| 109 points across 2 posts | 2 months ago with 18 comments |
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| 2017 | | My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘The most unusual person I had ever known’ (theguardian.com) |
| 105 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2003 | | A beginners guide to Esperanto (theguardian.com) |
| 104 points | 1 year ago with 109 comments |
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| 2014 | | Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years (theguardian.com) |
| 99 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Hyper-Specialist Shops of Berlin (theguardian.com) |
| 98 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2018 | | US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show (theguardian.com) |
| 98 points | 2 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2003 | | Two students built an A-bomb (theguardian.com) |
| 97 points | 4 months ago with 93 comments |
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| 2000 | | Coups, lies, dirty tricks: Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father (theguardian.com) |
| 97 points | 3 years ago with 107 comments |
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