Top Hackernews posts from lithub.com

1. On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking (lithub.com)
   502 points by lxm about 3 years ago | 226 comments
2. I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton (lithub.com)
   381 points by Jun8 5 months ago | 174 comments
3. Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize (lithub.com)
   233 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 117 comments
4. How babies and young children learn to understand language (lithub.com)
   233 points by Hooke 3 months ago | 190 comments
5. How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments (lithub.com)
   221 points by bookofjoe 12 months ago | 188 comments
6. Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (2019) (lithub.com)
   213 points by antiviral almost 2 years ago | 122 comments
7. How Einstein arrived at his theory of general relativity (lithub.com)
   179 points by 8ytecoder over 2 years ago | 111 comments
8. "She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play (lithub.com)
   153 points by zt 6 months ago | 69 comments
9. Scholars once feared that the book index would destroy reading (lithub.com)
   149 points by hhs over 2 years ago | 52 comments
10. My Dad Published Lolita (lithub.com)
    143 points by deepbow over 3 years ago | 72 comments
11. What makes a great opening line? (lithub.com)
    141 points by colluder over 2 years ago | 191 comments
12. What to do if your house is overflowing with books (lithub.com)
    141 points by PaulHoule about 1 year ago | 141 comments
13. The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I learned to stop worrying and love book piles (lithub.com)
    140 points by pepys about 3 years ago | 60 comments
14. On the disappearing antonyms of “grumpy” words (lithub.com)
    135 points by signor_bosco about 3 years ago | 42 comments
15. The Collapse of Small Press Distribution (lithub.com)
    130 points by Paul-Craft 5 months ago | 26 comments
16. W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring (lithub.com)
    123 points by gumby about 1 year ago | 182 comments
17. Original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick (lithub.com)
    114 points by thedday almost 3 years ago | 91 comments
18. On Being an Outsider (lithub.com)
    112 points by ohaikbai over 3 years ago | 108 comments
19. An obsessive scholar who rescued Iceland’s ancient literary legacy (lithub.com)
    100 points by drdee over 3 years ago | 11 comments
20. Natural Wine, Inherited Money, and the Delusions of the “Future-Rich Millennial” (lithub.com)
    97 points by bryanrasmussen over 2 years ago | 136 comments
21. How did people get to Britain 950k years ago? (lithub.com)
    97 points by antigizmo over 2 years ago | 89 comments
22. The Consciousness of Invertebrates (lithub.com)
    96 points by quercusa over 3 years ago | 68 comments
23. The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel (2011) (lithub.com)
    95 points by pallas_athena 12 months ago | 49 comments
24. Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018) (lithub.com)
    94 points by mattowen_uk over 3 years ago | 121 comments
25. On the insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast (lithub.com)
    94 points by ohpissoff over 1 year ago | 86 comments
26. Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade (lithub.com)
    88 points by pilfered almost 2 years ago | 35 comments
27. In Praise of the Park Bench (lithub.com)
    87 points by wrong-mexican over 1 year ago | 33 comments
28. Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia (lithub.com)
    87 points by ripe 5 months ago | 66 comments
29. Dissolution Foretold: A neurosurgeon on the reality of his diagnosis (lithub.com)
    86 points by PaulHoule over 1 year ago | 89 comments
30. The English cottage where John le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (lithub.com)
    86 points by bookofjoe about 1 year ago | 64 comments
31. On the link between Lyme disease and bioweapons (2019) (lithub.com)
    84 points by johntfella about 1 year ago | 69 comments
32. A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry (lithub.com)
    83 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago | 47 comments
33. The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories (lithub.com)
    82 points by bryanrasmussen over 2 years ago | 39 comments
34. Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and the Birth of Superman (lithub.com)
    81 points by samclemens over 1 year ago | 77 comments
35. An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged (lithub.com)
    80 points by apollinaire over 1 year ago | 8 comments
36. The Deep Weirdness of Beavers (lithub.com)
    73 points by agronaut almost 2 years ago | 28 comments
37. The Pleasure and Communion of Jane Austen’s Country Dance (lithub.com)
    72 points by pepys about 1 year ago | 18 comments
38. Research on whether reading fiction makes you nicer (lithub.com)
    65 points by ohjeez over 2 years ago | 26 comments
39. How T.S. Eliot’s therapeutic practice produced The Waste Land (lithub.com)
    65 points by notagain almost 2 years ago | 10 comments
40. Ellen Ullman: We Have to Demystify Code (2017) (lithub.com)
    65 points by webmaven over 2 years ago | 45 comments
41. On Slow Writing (lithub.com)
    62 points by savebykilling almost 3 years ago | 3 comments
42. Why I’m Still on Strike: Portraits from the HarperCollins Picket Line (lithub.com)
    62 points by PaulHoule over 1 year ago | 69 comments
43. When the Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout” (lithub.com)
    62 points by tintinnabula about 1 year ago | 33 comments
44. When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver (lithub.com)
    59 points by lermontov over 3 years ago | 30 comments
45. When your “public square” is a private company, any sulky billionaire can buy it (lithub.com)
    58 points by mwattsun over 2 years ago | 108 comments
46. Understanding Pakistan through the story of Karachi (lithub.com)
    57 points by daddy_drank almost 3 years ago | 36 comments
47. Find books set in your hometown (lithub.com)
    56 points by mwattsun over 2 years ago | 35 comments
48. The Trap of Fairytale Victory Endings in Historical Fiction (lithub.com)
    56 points by benbreen 11 months ago | 55 comments
49. Milman Parry, who changed the way scholars think about Homer (lithub.com)
    54 points by diodorus over 3 years ago | 15 comments
50. Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled (lithub.com)
    53 points by anarbadalov 9 months ago | 19 comments
51. Fungi’s Lessons for Adapting to Life on a Damaged Planet (2020) (lithub.com)
    52 points by oedmarap over 3 years ago | 3 comments
52. Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media (lithub.com)
    50 points by leotravis10 7 months ago | 34 comments
53. No one cares about your dreams unless you’re a famous writer (lithub.com)
    50 points by anarbadalov about 1 year ago | 53 comments