Top Hackernews posts from www.economist.com
- American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class (www.economist.com)
- Wikipedia is 20 (www.economist.com)
- Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return (www.economist.com)
- A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities (www.economist.com)
- Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades (www.economist.com)
- The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack (www.economist.com)
- Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China (www.economist.com)
- Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place (www.economist.com)
- Thinking hard makes the brain tired (www.economist.com)
- America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich (www.economist.com)
- Shortsightedness has become an epidemic (www.economist.com)
- How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life? (www.economist.com)
- Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks (www.economist.com)
- Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain (www.economist.com)
- Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B (www.economist.com)
- Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons (www.economist.com)
- Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value (www.economist.com)
- Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling (www.economist.com)
- EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany (www.economist.com)
- Spinal implants allow paralysed people to walk, swim and cycle again (www.economist.com)
- Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends (www.economist.com)
- Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken? (www.economist.com)
- Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched (www.economist.com)
- Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing (www.economist.com)
- Alibaba breaks itself up in six (www.economist.com)
- Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020) (www.economist.com)
- Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why (www.economist.com)
- Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT (www.economist.com)
- For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm (www.economist.com)
- America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars (www.economist.com)
- Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place (www.economist.com)
- A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas (www.economist.com)
- As TikTok grows, so does suspicion (www.economist.com)
- Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012) (www.economist.com)
- Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end? (www.economist.com)
- Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars (www.economist.com)
- Why doctors in America earn so much (www.economist.com)
- What to read to understand central banking (www.economist.com)
- Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web (www.economist.com)
- Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills (www.economist.com)
- Books to read to understand financial crime (www.economist.com)
- North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year (www.economist.com)
- There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research (www.economist.com)
- Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing (www.economist.com)
- Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in (www.economist.com)
- How trains could replace planes in Europe (www.economist.com)
- The Coming Food Catastrophe (www.economist.com)
- Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system? (www.economist.com)
- India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first (www.economist.com)
- Turkey’s earthquakes show the deadly extent of construction scams (www.economist.com)
- Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown (www.economist.com)
- Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional (www.economist.com)
- Car insurance in America is too cheap (www.economist.com)
- It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube? (www.economist.com)
- Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter (www.economist.com)
- How Hong Kong became a police state (www.economist.com)
- How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people (www.economist.com)
- Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015) (www.economist.com)
- There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic (www.economist.com)
- Pinball is booming in America (www.economist.com)
- A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants (www.economist.com)
- Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan (www.economist.com)
- Private equity may be heading for a fall (www.economist.com)
- Britain should scrap its online safety bill (www.economist.com)
- What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system? (www.economist.com)
- The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018) (www.economist.com)
- What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule (www.economist.com)
- Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic? (www.economist.com)
- The Dubai Debt Trap (www.economist.com)
- The vital art of talking to strangers (www.economist.com)
- The war against money-laundering is being lost (www.economist.com)
- Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than Covid-19 last winter (www.economist.com)
- Data centres account for between 1.5% and 2% of global electricity consumption (www.economist.com)
- Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road (www.economist.com)
- Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 (www.economist.com)
- Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records (www.economist.com)
- A global house-price slump is coming? (www.economist.com)
- Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming (www.economist.com)
- Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their children (www.economist.com)
- Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming (www.economist.com)
- Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children (www.economist.com)
- The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit (www.economist.com)
- Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga (www.economist.com)
- Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake (www.economist.com)
- SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform space travel (www.economist.com)
- Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing? (www.economist.com)
- Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision (www.economist.com)
- Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores (www.economist.com)
- Americans overestimate social mobility in their country (www.economist.com)
- Americans are rethinking where they want to live (www.economist.com)
- Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets (www.economist.com)
- The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids (www.economist.com)
- China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation (www.economist.com)
- New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale (www.economist.com)
- The strange case of Britain’s demise (www.economist.com)
- Heatwaves kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods (www.economist.com)
- Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? (www.economist.com)
- Plants can detect sound (www.economist.com)
- The importance of handwriting is now better understood (www.economist.com)
- A new biography of John von Neumann (www.economist.com)