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| The best articles from washingtonpost.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| Change the ?site URL parameter to try it on any other website. Or click the domain shown after each post title. |
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| 2016 | | Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study (washingtonpost.com) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 4 months ago with 13 comments |
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| 2015 | | Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com) |
| 491 points across 5 posts | 4 months ago with 9 comments |
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| 2013 | | NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com) |
| 386 points | 7 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2014 | | The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (washingtonpost.com) |
| 348 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 2007 | | My National Security Letter Gag Order (washingtonpost.com) |
| 307 points | 13 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2015 | | Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com) |
| 235 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2017 | | Amount of work that once bought an hour of light now buys 51 years of it (washingtonpost.com) |
| 210 points | 10 months ago with 328 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (washingtonpost.com) |
| 192 points | 13 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1924 | | 'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (washingtonpost.com) |
| 166 points | 7 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2014 | | USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (washingtonpost.com) |
| 151 points | 6 years ago with 161 comments |
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| 2015 | | My township calls my lawn ‘a nuisance’ (washingtonpost.com) |
| 122 points | 7 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2014 | | Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (washingtonpost.com) |
| 120 points | 7 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2013 | | Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (washingtonpost.com) |
| 118 points | 10 months ago with 131 comments |
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| 2014 | | Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are (washingtonpost.com) |
| 114 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2014 | | Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (washingtonpost.com) |
| 110 points | 7 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2015 | | Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later (washingtonpost.com) |
| 106 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2012 | | Do the math: too much calculus? (washingtonpost.com) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments |
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| 2014 | | Don’t support laws you are not willing to kill to enforce (washingtonpost.com) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2014 | | Teacher spends two days as a student (washingtonpost.com) |
| 100 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2018 | | CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak (washingtonpost.com) |
| 97 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2007 | | A Story of Surveillance (washingtonpost.com) |
| 94 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2009 | | Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (washingtonpost.com) |
| 92 points | 6 years ago with 220 comments |
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| 1999 | | ‘I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut’ (washingtonpost.com) |
| 88 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2015 | | Study finds, surprisingly, that women are favored for jobs in STEM (washingtonpost.com) |
| 85 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1998 | | Washington Pizza Index (washingtonpost.com) |
| 80 points | 1 year ago with 57 comments |
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| 2019 | | The ‘uncured’ bacon illusion: It’s cured, and it’s not better for you (washingtonpost.com) |
| 71 points | 2 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 1980 | | Down on 'The Farm': Learning How to Spy for the CIA (washingtonpost.com) |
| 69 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself (washingtonpost.com) |
| 68 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2015 | | The oddly beautiful and sometimes disturbing artistic talent of drug cops (washingtonpost.com) |
| 59 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1984 | | In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (washingtonpost.com) |
| 58 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2015 | | Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ analysis says (washingtonpost.com) |
| 55 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2018 | | My child has two parents. Why does day care call only me? (washingtonpost.com) |
| 52 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2017 | | Blogger in Ohio discovered runner in Florida cheating in a half-marathon (washingtonpost.com) |
| 48 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2019 | | Tesla fire kills man because door handles wouldn’t open, lawsuit alleges (washingtonpost.com) |
| 46 points | 3 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2009 | | Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (washingtonpost.com) |
| 40 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2018 | | Child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas was never the same (washingtonpost.com) |
| 31 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2019 | | ‘Don’t leave campus’: Parents are now using apps to watch their kids at college (washingtonpost.com) |
| 16 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments |
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| 2007 | | Pearls Before Breakfast (washingtonpost.com) |
| 13 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets (washingtonpost.com) |
| 10 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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