Top Hackernews posts from www.fastcompany.com

1. Google Maps has become an eyesore (www.fastcompany.com)
   782 points by nkurz about 1 year ago | 680 comments
2. Ohio train derailment: environmental disaster quietly unfolding (www.fastcompany.com)
   436 points by sebkomianos over 1 year ago | 322 comments
3. Airlines will make $118B in extra fees (www.fastcompany.com)
   397 points by thunderbong 10 months ago | 306 comments
4. The dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team (www.fastcompany.com)
   302 points by Pulcinella over 2 years ago | 312 comments
5. Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun (www.fastcompany.com)
   297 points by mariuz 11 months ago | 213 comments
6. AI’s biggest risk is the corporations that control them (www.fastcompany.com)
   296 points by LukeEF over 1 year ago | 288 comments
7. Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple (www.fastcompany.com)
   242 points by quyleanh almost 3 years ago | 219 comments
8. The vertical farming bubble is finally popping (www.fastcompany.com)
   235 points by jeffbee over 1 year ago | 270 comments
9. How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (2015) (www.fastcompany.com)
   233 points by edtechdev about 3 years ago | 118 comments
10. How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro (www.fastcompany.com)
    205 points by retskrad over 2 years ago | 167 comments
11. The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman (www.fastcompany.com)
    202 points by grzm 11 months ago | 129 comments
12. Questions to ask in a job interview that reveal company culture (www.fastcompany.com)
    201 points by ColinWright over 3 years ago | 88 comments
13. Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI (www.fastcompany.com)
    201 points by aaronbrindle about 3 years ago | 122 comments
14. Perhaps it’s time to sideline the internet when evaluating collective reality (www.fastcompany.com)
    190 points by Terretta about 1 year ago | 125 comments
15. 18-year-old built a computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes (www.fastcompany.com)
    181 points by danboarder 11 months ago | 158 comments
16. Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates (www.fastcompany.com)
    180 points by rustoo about 1 year ago | 99 comments
17. Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms (www.fastcompany.com)
    156 points by justicz 5 months ago | 90 comments
18. The smart home is flailing as a concept (www.fastcompany.com)
    155 points by RickJWagner about 3 years ago | 290 comments
19. Solar panel waste may not be as bad as we thought (www.fastcompany.com)
    153 points by JSeymourATL almost 2 years ago | 285 comments
20. The short, happy reign of CD-ROM (www.fastcompany.com)
    153 points by ecliptik 3 months ago | 220 comments
21. Growing crops under solar panels (www.fastcompany.com)
    152 points by lxm over 1 year ago | 149 comments
22. Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people (www.fastcompany.com)
    151 points by belter 7 months ago | 282 comments
23. The Canon Cat, the forgotten 1987 alternate-reality Mac (2019) (www.fastcompany.com)
    139 points by jdblair 4 months ago | 32 comments
24. The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information (www.fastcompany.com)
    138 points by KoftaBob over 3 years ago | 40 comments
25. Private Gmail and Docs alternatives: Proton, Skiff, and more (www.fastcompany.com)
    134 points by janjones about 3 years ago | 65 comments
26. The metaverse was never alive in the first place (www.fastcompany.com)
    129 points by jruohonen over 1 year ago | 181 comments
27. Why workers are calling BS on leaders about returning to the office (www.fastcompany.com)
    124 points by aseerdbnarng over 3 years ago | 173 comments
28. E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance (www.fastcompany.com)
    123 points by the-mitr 9 months ago | 90 comments
29. I hate living in my tiny house (2019) (www.fastcompany.com)
    116 points by fortran77 almost 2 years ago | 183 comments
30. Generative AI is killing our sense of awe (www.fastcompany.com)
    112 points by yamrzou 10 months ago | 138 comments
31. Apple reveals more about AirTag stalking protections (www.fastcompany.com)
    106 points by roguson over 3 years ago | 131 comments
32. The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit (www.fastcompany.com)
    100 points by bluefishinit 11 months ago | 75 comments
33. The reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom, it’s bad UX (www.fastcompany.com)
    99 points by hiddencache about 3 years ago | 63 comments
34. Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens (www.fastcompany.com)
    98 points by jeppester about 2 years ago | 31 comments
35. Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation (www.fastcompany.com)
    91 points by CharlesW over 3 years ago | 221 comments
36. Adobe at 40 (www.fastcompany.com)
    88 points by redbell almost 2 years ago | 65 comments
37. Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees (www.fastcompany.com)
    86 points by ohjeez 3 months ago | 95 comments
38. One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day (www.fastcompany.com)
    84 points by kilroy123 over 3 years ago | 92 comments
39. Fast Company is shut down after breach (www.fastcompany.com)
    81 points by jawns almost 2 years ago | 57 comments
40. Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires (www.fastcompany.com)
    75 points by DocFeind about 3 years ago | 236 comments
41. Sinking 1K NYC subway cars in the Atlantic to create a reef didn’t go as planned (www.fastcompany.com)
    73 points by ryan_j_naughton over 2 years ago | 51 comments
42. The Cybertruck is years behind schedule, so Tesla is launching a $30 beer (www.fastcompany.com)
    69 points by herbertl over 1 year ago | 197 comments
43. How Lego Became the Apple of Toys (2015) (www.fastcompany.com)
    69 points by Tomte 8 months ago | 82 comments
44. Credit card companies are tracking shoppers like never before (www.fastcompany.com)
    65 points by g8oz over 3 years ago | 10 comments
45. Vegas casinos are still reeling from a cyberattack (www.fastcompany.com)
    64 points by Hary06 about 1 year ago | 47 comments
46. Mega landlords own majority of the San Francisco Bay Area (www.fastcompany.com)
    64 points by moneycantbuy almost 2 years ago | 11 comments
47. How gray became the king of color (www.fastcompany.com)
    63 points by marban about 2 years ago | 55 comments
48. An industrial designer who inspired Steve Jobs (www.fastcompany.com)
    63 points by rbanffy over 3 years ago | 29 comments
49. The most interesting book cover designs are often left on the cutting room floor (www.fastcompany.com)
    63 points by Vigier 9 months ago | 50 comments
50. Cory Doctorow: ‘We do not have fast companies anymore’ (www.fastcompany.com)
    61 points by meiraleal 12 months ago | 15 comments
51. AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable (www.fastcompany.com)
    61 points by skilled 5 months ago | 49 comments
52. Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars (www.fastcompany.com)
    59 points by rbanffy almost 3 years ago | 87 comments
53. 9/11 changed architecture and urban design forever (www.fastcompany.com)
    59 points by tmvst about 3 years ago | 27 comments
54. Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory (www.fastcompany.com)
    58 points by jbredeche almost 2 years ago | 51 comments
55. Apple makes its case against iPhone app sideloading (www.fastcompany.com)
    54 points by blinding-streak about 3 years ago | 131 comments
56. Heyday: a clever app that makes you way more productive – automatically (www.fastcompany.com)
    54 points by samiur1204 over 2 years ago | 6 comments
57. Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top (www.fastcompany.com)
    50 points by non_sequitur about 1 year ago | 39 comments