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| The best articles from wired.com, according to Hacker News. |
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2008 | | To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (wired.com) |
| 955 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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1997 | | The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (wired.com) |
| 336 points | 1 year ago with 149 comments |
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2015 | | Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (wired.com) |
| 232 points | 1 year ago with 252 comments |
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1996 | | Mother Earth Mother Board (wired.com) |
| 210 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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2006 | | Refuse to be terrorized (wired.com) |
| 207 points | 12 years ago with 83 comments |
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2012 | | Public buses across country adding microphones to record conversations (wired.com) |
| 192 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments |
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2019 | | A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon (wired.com) |
| 187 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 62 comments |
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2007 | | Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (wired.com) |
| 187 points | 10 years ago with 32 comments |
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2016 | | A neurologist who hacked his brain and almost lost his mind (wired.com) |
| 186 points | 2 years ago with 115 comments |
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2017 | | A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality (wired.com) |
| 175 points | 4 years ago with 115 comments |
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2015 | | My last name makes me invisible to Computers (wired.com) |
| 166 points | 6 years ago with 135 comments |
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2018 | | A Clever Radio Trick Can Tell If a Drone Is Watching You (wired.com) |
| 161 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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2012 | | Interleaving and varying your study location are good learning strategies (wired.com) |
| 161 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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2015 | | BeOS almost made Apple a different company (wired.com) |
| 151 points | 6 years ago with 143 comments |
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2011 | | The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (wired.com) |
| 150 points | 10 years ago with 42 comments |
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2012 | | The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (wired.com) |
| 149 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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2019 | | A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (wired.com) |
| 147 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments |
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2000 | | Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (wired.com) |
| 145 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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2009 | | Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why (wired.com) |
| 141 points | 12 years ago with 60 comments |
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2011 | | There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (wired.com) |
| 140 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments |
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2013 | | Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison (wired.com) |
| 135 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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2002 | | HyperCard: What Could Have Been (wired.com) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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2007 | | Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (wired.com) |
| 127 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments |
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2015 | | Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (wired.com) |
| 126 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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1996 | | Bots Are Hot (wired.com) |
| 121 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments |
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2014 | | The 1993 Murder She Wrote VR episode (wired.com) |
| 115 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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2009 | | The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (wired.com) |
| 104 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments |
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2012 | | Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (wired.com) |
| 104 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments |
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1996 | | Netheads vs. Bellheads (wired.com) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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2015 | | The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (wired.com) |
| 101 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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2012 | | The Personal Analytics of My Life (wired.com) |
| 100 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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1997 | | The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (wired.com) |
| 98 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 11 comments |
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2007 | | The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory (wired.com) |
| 96 points | 10 years ago with 72 comments |
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2007 | | AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance (wired.com) |
| 95 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments |
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2016 | | Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet (wired.com) |
| 93 points | 8 months ago with 30 comments |
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2016 | | In two moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol redefined the future (wired.com) |
| 92 points | 4 months ago with 82 comments |
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2015 | | The Untold Story of Silk Road (wired.com) |
| 90 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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2012 | | Cracking a 250-Year-Old Code to Reveal a Secret Society (wired.com) |
| 90 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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2012 | | Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network (wired.com) |
| 88 points | 9 years ago with 66 comments |
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2013 | | Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance (wired.com) |
| 88 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments |
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2011 | | In Nuclear Silos, Death Wears a Snuggie (wired.com) |
| 87 points | 7 years ago with 58 comments |
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1994 | | A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (wired.com) |
| 87 points | 11 years ago with 47 comments |
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2008 | | How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card (wired.com) |
| 85 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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2009 | | Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (wired.com) |
| 85 points | 3 months ago with 78 comments |
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2015 | | Google is 2B lines of code and it's all in one place (wired.com) |
| 84 points | 1 year ago with 95 comments |
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2019 | | Lists, more lists, and the power of checkboxes (wired.com) |
| 82 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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2013 | | The Indie Web movement (wired.com) |
| 81 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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2016 | | Excerpt from Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez (wired.com) |
| 81 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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2008 | | Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit (wired.com) |
| 75 points | 11 years ago with 40 comments |
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2012 | | How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (wired.com) |
| 75 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments |
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