Top Hackernews posts from nautil.us

1. A third of North America’s birds have vanished (nautil.us)
   554 points by geox about 3 years | 488 comments
2. Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way (nautil.us)
   487 points by gHeadphone almost 4 years | 254 comments
3. I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014) (nautil.us)
   406 points by ColinWright over 2 years | 199 comments
4. A Universal Cancer Treatment? (nautil.us)
   383 points by WithinReason almost 4 years | 97 comments
5. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem (nautil.us)
   351 points by Brajeshwar almost 3 years | 132 comments
6. What impossible meant to Richard Feynman (nautil.us)
   323 points by dnetesn almost 5 years | 129 comments
7. What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health? (nautil.us)
   313 points by dnetesn over 4 years | 324 comments
8. Five things we still don’t know about water (nautil.us)
   306 points by Anon84 almost 5 years | 103 comments
9. Myths about how the brain works (nautil.us)
   284 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 123 comments
10. What does any of this have to do with physics? (2016) (nautil.us)
    278 points by telotortium over 5 years | 170 comments
11. Deep learning is hitting a wall? (nautil.us)
    274 points by agnosticmantis over 4 years | 250 comments
12. Why People Feel Like Victims (nautil.us)
    263 points by rbanffy over 5 years | 473 comments
13. What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020) (nautil.us)
    256 points by dmitrysergeyev over 2 years | 79 comments
14. How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter (2021) (nautil.us)
    255 points by Tomte over 4 years | 189 comments
15. Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020) (nautil.us)
    250 points by Phithagoras almost 5 years | 108 comments
16. I couldn’t get over my brother’s death (nautil.us)
    241 points by dnetesn over 4 years | 151 comments
17. It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end (nautil.us)
    225 points by pseudolus over 4 years | 228 comments
18. What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less (nautil.us)
    221 points by dnetesn almost 4 years | 62 comments
19. We Crush, Poison, and Destroy Insects at Our Own Peril (nautil.us)
    220 points by CapitalistCartr over 5 years | 150 comments
20. Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress (nautil.us)
    213 points by akeck over 3 years | 160 comments
21. To supercharge learning, look to play (nautil.us)
    211 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 101 comments
22. Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases (nautil.us)
    189 points by jnord about 3 years | 151 comments
23. Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend? (nautil.us)
    188 points by pseudolus over 5 years | 216 comments
24. Space explosion reveals possible hints of dark matter (nautil.us)
    179 points by rbanffy almost 4 years | 119 comments
25. Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming (nautil.us)
    178 points by Brajeshwar over 2 years | 145 comments
26. Myths about the brain (nautil.us)
    177 points by dnetesn over 4 years | 75 comments
27. Could an industrial civilization have predated humans on Earth? (nautil.us)
    177 points by dnetesn about 3 years | 271 comments
28. What’s so hard about understanding consciousness? (nautil.us)
    174 points by CapitalistCartr over 4 years | 378 comments
29. Elephants are scared around bees (nautil.us)
    171 points by dnetesn almost 3 years | 104 comments
30. Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study (nautil.us)
    168 points by dnetesn over 2 years | 102 comments
31. What hallucinogens will make you see (nautil.us)
    167 points by RafelMri over 3 years | 82 comments
32. The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make (nautil.us)
    165 points by acconrad about 5 years | 205 comments
33. Love is biological bribery? (nautil.us)
    157 points by dnetesn over 4 years | 151 comments
34. Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning (nautil.us)
    155 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 32 comments
35. A step-by-step guide to our solar system’s demise (nautil.us)
    153 points by nsoonhui almost 4 years | 118 comments
36. Perceptual Illusions (2018) (nautil.us)
    150 points by robertwiblin about 5 years | 34 comments
37. The fig is an ecological marvel (nautil.us)
    149 points by dnetesn about 5 years | 128 comments
38. I never stopped learning from Daniel Dennett (nautil.us)
    147 points by dnetesn over 2 years | 58 comments
39. The Botanist Who Defied Stalin (nautil.us)
    145 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 57 comments
40. A Simple Way to Reduce Cognitive Bias (nautil.us)
    139 points by prostoalex over 5 years | 42 comments
41. Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success? (nautil.us)
    136 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 170 comments
42. A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015) (nautil.us)
    135 points by JPLeRouzic over 5 years | 66 comments
43. Are you a naïve realist? (nautil.us)
    133 points by nsoonhui about 4 years | 138 comments
44. Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea (nautil.us)
    133 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 293 comments
45. Under anesthesia, where do our minds go? (nautil.us)
    133 points by signa11 about 4 years | 301 comments
46. How to unlearn a disease (nautil.us)
    130 points by dnetesn about 5 years | 32 comments
47. The man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015) (nautil.us)
    129 points by headalgorithm about 3 years | 22 comments
48. My out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank (nautil.us)
    128 points by headalgorithm over 4 years | 135 comments
49. Why is sea level rise worse in some places? (nautil.us)
    128 points by rbanffy over 3 years | 131 comments
50. Insects and other animals have consciousness (nautil.us)
    127 points by dnetesn over 2 years | 227 comments
51. Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers (nautil.us)
    124 points by dnetesn over 2 years | 18 comments
52. Mental time travel can make us better people (nautil.us)
    121 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 40 comments
53. Learning Chess at 40 (2016) (nautil.us)
    119 points by sebg over 4 years | 67 comments
54. How parasites manipulate the behavior of their hosts (nautil.us)
    118 points by rbanffy about 4 years | 58 comments
55. A species of deep-sea squid has the world’s biggest light-producing organs (nautil.us)
    117 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 16 comments
56. Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine? (nautil.us)
    116 points by dnetesn over 2 years | 152 comments
57. A new doorway to the brain (nautil.us)
    115 points by Brajeshwar almost 4 years | 31 comments
58. How are the bees? (nautil.us)
    112 points by nsoonhui about 4 years | 39 comments
59. After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back (nautil.us)
    111 points by CapitalistCartr almost 5 years | 57 comments
60. Consciousness Is Just a Feeling (nautil.us)
    110 points by gHeadphone over 5 years | 266 comments
61. The remarkable emptiness of existence (nautil.us)
    108 points by origgm over 3 years | 44 comments
62. Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists (nautil.us)
    107 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 87 comments
63. How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers (nautil.us)
    106 points by CapitalistCartr over 4 years | 145 comments
64. A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate (nautil.us)
    104 points by rbanffy over 5 years | 300 comments
65. Your brain on emoji (nautil.us)
    104 points by dnetesn about 3 years | 175 comments
66. In neutron stars, astrophysicists see a form of matter like none other (nautil.us)
    104 points by rbanffy over 3 years | 71 comments
67. “My Octopus Teacher” defied convention (nautil.us)
    103 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 98 comments
68. How I learned to stop worrying and love uncertainty (nautil.us)
    102 points by nsoonhui almost 4 years | 38 comments
69. A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015) (nautil.us)
    101 points by porterbeats over 4 years | 19 comments
70. Deep Nose may one day be the best diagnostician in medicine (nautil.us)
    99 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 53 comments
71. Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have roamed free of academia (nautil.us)
    98 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 76 comments
72. The end of the dark universe? (nautil.us)
    98 points by rbanffy over 2 years | 65 comments
73. E.O. Wilson saw the world in a new way (nautil.us)
    97 points by dnetesn over 4 years | 22 comments
74. Another Path to Intelligence (nautil.us)
    97 points by WithinReason about 4 years | 33 comments
75. Deep-Sea Octopus Nursery (nautil.us)
    97 points by dnetesn almost 3 years | 15 comments
76. Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (nautil.us)
    95 points by ofou about 4 years | 159 comments
77. Why Darwin admired the earthworm (nautil.us)
    95 points by sohkamyung about 3 years | 37 comments
78. Scientists need to get high (nautil.us)
    95 points by thx-2718 over 3 years | 92 comments
79. The Return of New York Harbor’s Oysters (nautil.us)
    94 points by dnetesn over 4 years | 32 comments
80. We Are Made of Waves (nautil.us)
    92 points by dnetesn over 2 years | 71 comments
81. Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants (nautil.us)
    91 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 43 comments
82. Ancient architecture that defies earthquakes (nautil.us)
    91 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 17 comments
83. The series of fortunate astrophysical events that gave us Ceres (nautil.us)
    89 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 19 comments
84. Humid Heat Can Kill Us Much Faster Than We Thought (nautil.us)
    85 points by Brajeshwar almost 3 years | 36 comments
85. The Magic of Rituals (nautil.us)
    85 points by rbanffy almost 4 years | 20 comments
86. An accident of lighting uncovers origins of the astrolabe (nautil.us)
    85 points by jnord over 2 years | 10 comments
87. Comets Are More Dangerous Than We Thought (nautil.us)
    83 points by dnetesn over 5 years | 47 comments
88. The creative sweet spot of dreaming (nautil.us)
    83 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 12 comments
89. The human family tree, it turns out, is complicated (nautil.us)
    81 points by dnetesn about 5 years | 45 comments
90. What Made Early Humans Smart (nautil.us)
    78 points by dnetesn about 5 years | 71 comments
91. That snapper might be 80 years old (nautil.us)
    78 points by rbanffy almost 4 years | 84 comments
92. The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets (nautil.us)
    77 points by dnetesn about 5 years | 21 comments
93. Will we know alien life when we see it? (nautil.us)
    76 points by Brajeshwar over 3 years | 115 comments
94. A wild idea to protect the Great Barrier Reef (nautil.us)
    76 points by dnetesn almost 3 years | 76 comments
95. The Worrisome Rise of NFTs (nautil.us)
    74 points by zwieback over 4 years | 147 comments
96. The Great Forgetting (nautil.us)
    74 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 47 comments
97. How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything (nautil.us)
    73 points by dnetesn about 4 years | 61 comments
98. What lurks in a drowned forest in Alabama (nautil.us)
    71 points by dnetesn over 4 years | 12 comments
99. Why Is It So Difficult to Map the Ocean? (nautil.us)
    70 points by Brajeshwar almost 3 years | 56 comments
100. Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think (nautil.us)
     68 points by dnetesn over 3 years | 171 comments