Top Hackernews posts from nymag.com

1. There's something off about LED bulbs (nymag.com)
   701 points by brainfog over 1 year ago | 942 comments
2. Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet? (nymag.com)
   474 points by jasonhansel almost 2 years ago | 345 comments
3. There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble (nymag.com)
   264 points by known over 3 years ago | 393 comments
4. The UK’s delta surge is collapsing (nymag.com)
   243 points by donohoe about 3 years ago | 438 comments
5. Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave (nymag.com)
   226 points by whacim almost 2 years ago | 379 comments
6. David Graeber’s Possible Worlds (nymag.com)
   221 points by Vigier almost 3 years ago | 180 comments
7. The Lab Leak Hypothesis (nymag.com)
   213 points by api over 3 years ago | 229 comments
8. 'Ray, this is a religion': How Bridgewater lost two top hires (nymag.com)
   202 points by saeranv 11 months ago | 159 comments
9. The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor (nymag.com)
   184 points by mooreds over 2 years ago | 193 comments
10. Jack Ma Is Missing (nymag.com)
    154 points by derangedHorse over 3 years ago | 115 comments
11. Poor people often don’t survive to become seniors who vote (nymag.com)
    152 points by colinprince over 1 year ago | 91 comments
12. Who is still inside the metaverse? (nymag.com)
    135 points by jkestner over 1 year ago | 249 comments
13. The Silicon Valley Loop (nymag.com)
    123 points by rmason over 1 year ago | 91 comments
14. Confessions of a Middle-Class Founder (nymag.com)
    122 points by caser 11 months ago | 66 comments
15. The rise of influencer capital (nymag.com)
    120 points by marban almost 2 years ago | 108 comments
16. Remote work’s toll on cities (nymag.com)
    119 points by andrewl over 1 year ago | 241 comments
17. Last Sane Man on Wall Street (nymag.com)
    116 points by kamaal over 1 year ago | 54 comments
18. Who thought putting a casino in everyone’s pocket was a good idea? (nymag.com)
    110 points by mooreds almost 2 years ago | 129 comments
19. Why the ‘Big Short’ Guys Think Bitcoin Is a Bubble (nymag.com)
    110 points by graeme almost 3 years ago | 219 comments
20. America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism (nymag.com)
    107 points by moose_is_loose over 1 year ago | 99 comments
21. Crypto Is Crashing. It Deserves To (nymag.com)
    107 points by pseudolus over 2 years ago | 51 comments
22. Humans of New York became a one-man philanthropy machine (nymag.com)
    105 points by bdr over 2 years ago | 7 comments
23. The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree (nymag.com)
    102 points by jseliger 4 months ago | 59 comments
24. The Case of the Fake Sherlock (nymag.com)
    96 points by danso over 1 year ago | 43 comments
25. The Uninhabitable Earth (2017) (nymag.com)
    92 points by miobrien almost 2 years ago | 105 comments
26. Google's New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet (nymag.com)
    91 points by leotravis10 8 months ago | 95 comments
27. Gaslighting Asian Americans About College Admissions (nymag.com)
    85 points by scarmig over 2 years ago | 68 comments
28. Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars (nymag.com)
    79 points by latchkey about 2 years ago | 52 comments
29. New Study Finds a High Minimum Wage Creates Jobs (nymag.com)
    78 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | 65 comments
30. An Elegant Revolution Followed by Slaughter (nymag.com)
    76 points by fortran77 over 3 years ago | 82 comments
31. Confessions of an Overnight Millionaire (nymag.com)
    68 points by cl3m over 3 years ago | 81 comments
32. Did an F-22 Blow Up an Illinois Club’s Hobby Balloon? (nymag.com)
    67 points by Stratoscope over 1 year ago | 76 comments
33. The Scarlett Johansson Incident Makes OpenAI Look Desperate (nymag.com)
    62 points by jbegley 4 months ago | 17 comments
34. I Used to Be a Human Being – How we are all becoming information addicts (nymag.com)
    62 points by jack-bodine over 3 years ago | 19 comments
35. How Professor Maynard burned down (nymag.com)
    61 points by drdee about 2 years ago | 25 comments
36. ChatGPT and Google Gemini are both doomed (nymag.com)
    60 points by taylorbuley 7 months ago | 66 comments
37. Killing the Messenger: My Final Days Working at a Disaster (nymag.com)
    60 points by paulpauper 6 months ago | 32 comments
38. Stephen Sondheim on How to Do a Crossword Puzzle (1968) (nymag.com)
    59 points by library almost 3 years ago | 20 comments
39. Why does it feel like Amazon is making itself worse? (nymag.com)
    58 points by floren over 1 year ago | 26 comments
40. Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
    56 points by CharlesW 7 months ago | 81 comments
41. Vice Media Was Built on a Bluff (2018) (nymag.com)
    55 points by areoform over 1 year ago | discuss
42. Kids of parents making $158.2-222.4k/yr have worst odds of Ivy League acceptance (nymag.com)
    55 points by Geekette 8 months ago | 51 comments
43. Daniel Hale, a ‘Second Snowden’, Leaked Drone Wars Documents (nymag.com)
    55 points by IfOnlyYouKnew about 3 years ago | 2 comments
44. Is the Micro Machines guy still the fastest-talking man on the planet? (2016) (nymag.com)
    52 points by lnyan almost 2 years ago | 18 comments
45. David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their Cases Are Falling Apart (nymag.com)
    52 points by danso over 2 years ago | 72 comments