Top Hackernews posts from qz.com

The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020) (qz.com)

342 points by airstrike 12 months ago | 192 comments
YouTube has become the world's nanny (qz.com)

305 points by laurex over 1 year ago | 395 comments
What can mRNA treat next? (qz.com)

303 points by elsewhen over 3 years ago | 186 comments
AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs (qz.com)

293 points by geox about 1 year ago | 239 comments
20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown (qz.com)

283 points by codev over 3 years ago | 78 comments
Red flags in the Threads privacy policy (qz.com)

267 points by LinuxBender about 1 year ago | 249 comments
The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021) (qz.com)

257 points by webmobdev over 2 years ago | 364 comments
3M is paying $5.5B to resolve 300k lawsuits over defective combat earplugs (qz.com)

233 points by giuliomagnifico about 1 year ago | 163 comments
How will MIDI 2.0 change music? (2020) (qz.com)

179 points by kelnos almost 3 years ago | 161 comments
Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products (qz.com)

172 points by Anon84 8 months ago | 211 comments
The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet (qz.com)

168 points by kitkat_new over 1 year ago | 222 comments
Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2015) (qz.com)

159 points by morkin almost 3 years ago | 80 comments
New York City’s AI hiring law takes effect (qz.com)

101 points by donohoe about 1 year ago | 134 comments
Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families (qz.com)

99 points by paulpauper about 3 years ago | 72 comments
The strangest time zones in the world (2015) (qz.com)

96 points by tosh over 3 years ago | 56 comments
EVs are far cleaner than gas-powered cars even if batteries require more mining (qz.com)

94 points by DemiGuru over 1 year ago | 111 comments
Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (2016) (qz.com)

90 points by notRobot about 3 years ago | 91 comments
The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018) (qz.com)

89 points by hidden-spyder almost 3 years ago | 135 comments
Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (2017) (qz.com)

88 points by DoreenMichele over 1 year ago | 54 comments
Hertz is ditching even more electric cars (qz.com)

87 points by belter 5 months ago | 245 comments
Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account (qz.com)

86 points by toss1 4 months ago | 13 comments
Google surpasses $2T market cap (qz.com)

85 points by mrbishalsaha 5 months ago | 79 comments
A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (2015) (qz.com)

80 points by tchalla almost 3 years ago | 55 comments
Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency (qz.com)

76 points by lxm over 3 years ago | 103 comments
Give AI curiosity, and it will watch TV forever (2018) (qz.com)

75 points by yamrzou 8 months ago | 97 comments
We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com (qz.com)

70 points by tosh over 2 years ago | 58 comments
Everyone on Earth is your cousin (2014) (qz.com)

68 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 53 comments
Silicon Valley Bank is the second-largest US bank failure in history (qz.com)

65 points by giuliomagnifico over 1 year ago | 25 comments
Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea (qz.com)

60 points by laurex 9 months ago | 39 comments
The quest to create quality chocolate for a country obsessed with Cadbury (2017) (qz.com)

53 points by Tomte over 2 years ago | 85 comments