Top Hackernews posts from www.latimes.com

Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions (www.latimes.com)

959 points by rbrown about 1 year ago | 1681 comments
Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home (www.latimes.com)

514 points by pseudolus over 3 years ago | 329 comments
California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in (www.latimes.com)

509 points by dv_dt almost 3 years ago | 283 comments
Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era (www.latimes.com)

487 points by belter about 3 years ago | 575 comments
Kim Jung Gi has died (www.latimes.com)

481 points by embedded3 almost 2 years ago | 204 comments
A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work (www.latimes.com)

480 points by pseudolus about 1 year ago | 245 comments
Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation (www.latimes.com)

394 points by ohjeez about 1 year ago | 201 comments
FBI says seized fortune was criminals’ loot—owners say: Where’s the proof? (www.latimes.com)

389 points by cascom almost 3 years ago | 394 comments
Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (2019) (www.latimes.com)

375 points by joelkesler almost 2 years ago | 316 comments
DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected (www.latimes.com)

355 points by usaphp over 3 years ago | 146 comments
Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power (www.latimes.com)

321 points by lisper over 1 year ago | 451 comments
Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022 (www.latimes.com)

291 points by lxm about 3 years ago | 462 comments
Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting (www.latimes.com)

287 points by chapulin over 2 years ago | 211 comments
65k fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam (www.latimes.com)

269 points by hbcondo714 about 3 years ago | 288 comments
U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's (www.latimes.com)

255 points by botanical 9 months ago | 131 comments
California is not in drought (www.latimes.com)

254 points by symby over 3 years ago | 202 comments
L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics (www.latimes.com)

244 points by scotuswroteus almost 3 years ago | 125 comments
Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from home without Apple noticing (www.latimes.com)

237 points by radicaldreamer about 3 years ago | 141 comments
Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk (www.latimes.com)

234 points by Flatcircle about 3 years ago | 378 comments
Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco (www.latimes.com)

231 points by undefined1 over 3 years ago | 454 comments
Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for healthcare and standard of living (2019) (www.latimes.com)

230 points by newsthrowa over 2 years ago | 334 comments
California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics (www.latimes.com)

223 points by voisin about 1 year ago | 276 comments
FBI misled judge who signed warrant for seizure of $86M in cash (www.latimes.com)

221 points by octoberfranklin almost 2 years ago | 151 comments
Something is killing gray whales (www.latimes.com)

217 points by prostoalex about 3 years ago | 136 comments
Friend's Chandler, Matthew Perry, died at 54 (www.latimes.com)

203 points by behnamoh 11 months ago | 141 comments
California passes bill to make it easier to delete data from data brokers (www.latimes.com)

201 points by pseudolus about 1 year ago | 145 comments
Tesla calls self-driving technology 'failure,' not fraud (www.latimes.com)

197 points by elorant almost 2 years ago | 376 comments
There may be a steep privacy cost if you park here (www.latimes.com)

196 points by arkadiyt almost 3 years ago | 252 comments
YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute (www.latimes.com)

192 points by axiomdata316 almost 3 years ago | 221 comments
Forest Service officials close all California national forests (www.latimes.com)

191 points by uptown about 3 years ago | 219 comments
Multimillion-dollar L.A. heist was seamless, sophisticated, stealthy (www.latimes.com)

190 points by walterbell 5 months ago | 154 comments
The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago (www.latimes.com)

185 points by prismatic over 1 year ago | 135 comments
The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream (www.latimes.com)

185 points by amin about 3 years ago | 510 comments
At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now (www.latimes.com)

181 points by quantified about 2 years ago | 245 comments
California bill would let parents sue social media companies for addicting kids (www.latimes.com)

179 points by prostoalex over 2 years ago | 273 comments
Gov. Newsom signs law to stop UC Berkeley enrollment cuts (www.latimes.com)

178 points by seryoiupfurds over 2 years ago | 171 comments
Rail Theft Soars in California (www.latimes.com)

170 points by ilamont over 2 years ago | 326 comments
L.A. startup is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors (www.latimes.com)

166 points by thereare5lights over 3 years ago | 58 comments
What a gas stove ban means for restaurants (www.latimes.com)

166 points by fortran77 over 2 years ago | 592 comments
Judge finds no rights violations in FBI seizure Beverly Hills safe-deposit boxes (www.latimes.com)

159 points by tomohawk almost 2 years ago | 135 comments
Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build (www.latimes.com)

158 points by baron816 about 2 years ago | 255 comments
My father may be gone, but ‘our’ radio is still going (www.latimes.com)

156 points by mirthlessend over 1 year ago | 91 comments
Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993) (www.latimes.com)

155 points by donohoe over 3 years ago | 100 comments
California DMV accuses Tesla of falsely advertising Autopilot and FSD features (www.latimes.com)

155 points by ra7 about 2 years ago | 78 comments
Olive oil soars, and thieves go after century-old trees in the Mediterranean (www.latimes.com)

152 points by aa_is_op 10 months ago | 173 comments
To save California, sacrifice single-family zoning (www.latimes.com)

151 points by wavesounds about 3 years ago | 190 comments
Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking (www.latimes.com)

150 points by supertimor about 1 year ago | 174 comments
As inflation soars, how is Arizona iced tea still 99 cents? (www.latimes.com)

150 points by sharkweek over 2 years ago | 224 comments
California aims to slash insulin prices (www.latimes.com)

148 points by prostoalex over 2 years ago | 208 comments
Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect (www.latimes.com)

148 points by RickJWagner over 2 years ago | 288 comments
NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’ (www.latimes.com)

147 points by spideymans about 3 years ago | 129 comments
The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2021) (www.latimes.com)

146 points by wallflower over 1 year ago | 118 comments
Facing housing crisis, L.A. voters back duplexes in single-family neighborhoods (www.latimes.com)

145 points by dredmorbius almost 3 years ago | 393 comments
San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess with her firetrucks (www.latimes.com)

138 points by tafda about 1 year ago | 143 comments
We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto crime wave has gotten (www.latimes.com)

138 points by cratermoon over 2 years ago | 132 comments
Renew your service or we’ll trash your credit score, Spectrum tells ex-customer (www.latimes.com)

138 points by defqon almost 3 years ago | 46 comments
Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired (www.latimes.com)

137 points by SonOfKyuss almost 2 years ago | 204 comments
Apple Watch violates patents held by Orange Co. tech company, ITC finds (www.latimes.com)

135 points by classichasclass 11 months ago | 104 comments
Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Pot smokers (www.latimes.com)

135 points by numo16 about 3 years ago | 271 comments
Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate (www.latimes.com)

134 points by lxm 11 months ago | 177 comments
Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores (www.latimes.com)

134 points by thunderbong about 3 years ago | 116 comments
UC slams the door on standardized admissions tests, nixing any SAT alternative (www.latimes.com)

134 points by djkivi almost 3 years ago | 215 comments
Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidiary unionize (www.latimes.com)

134 points by dangle1 over 2 years ago | 73 comments
Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet (www.latimes.com)

133 points by ryan_j_naughton almost 3 years ago | 157 comments
Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage (www.latimes.com)

131 points by jonathanehrlich over 2 years ago | 199 comments
L.A. restaurants struggle with a new form of dine-and-dash (www.latimes.com)

130 points by hbcondo714 over 3 years ago | 143 comments
Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters drummer, dies at 50 (www.latimes.com)

126 points by MontagFTB over 2 years ago | 16 comments
Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care (www.latimes.com)

124 points by mmastrac almost 3 years ago | 177 comments
Hiking America’s three longest trails in less than a year. What could go wrong? (www.latimes.com)

124 points by hodgesrm almost 3 years ago | 84 comments
Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' makes clear the world is a fragile place (www.latimes.com)

123 points by cempaka 10 months ago | 60 comments
Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (www.latimes.com)

120 points by benbreen 8 months ago | 123 comments
A scientist is studying the brains of people who died of Covid (www.latimes.com)

118 points by doener almost 3 years ago | 91 comments
String pinsetters are upending bowling (www.latimes.com)

116 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 169 comments
Young adults in L.A. to get $1k a month under new guaranteed income program (www.latimes.com)

115 points by prostoalex almost 2 years ago | 173 comments
IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘higher growth’ areas (www.latimes.com)

115 points by bluedino over 1 year ago | 108 comments
Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites? (www.latimes.com)

110 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 91 comments
Why diets backfire: A year after weight loss, the desire to eat grows (2018) (www.latimes.com)

109 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | 173 comments
Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why? (www.latimes.com)

108 points by gamblor956 over 1 year ago | 151 comments
103 points by jonah 12 months ago | discuss
Rick Rubin’s creative genius (www.latimes.com)

102 points by andsoitis over 1 year ago | 92 comments
LA: Ambulance crews to not transport patients with little chance of survival (www.latimes.com)

102 points by belltaco over 3 years ago | 176 comments
Waymo sues state DMV to keep robotaxi safety details secret (www.latimes.com)

102 points by georgecmu over 2 years ago | 61 comments
The lithium revolution has arrived at California's Salton Sea (www.latimes.com)

100 points by DocFeind 8 months ago | 20 comments
Caltrans exec who protested a freeway expansion gets demoted (www.latimes.com)

99 points by oftenwrong 11 months ago | 57 comments
Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading (www.latimes.com)

99 points by prostoalex almost 3 years ago | 341 comments
LAPD releases video of officers who ignored robbery to play Pokémon Go (www.latimes.com)

98 points by simjue 11 months ago | 51 comments
Court blocks Inglewood from destroying police disciplinary records (www.latimes.com)

98 points by alphabettsy over 2 years ago | 45 comments
$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people (www.latimes.com)

96 points by hackerbeat 9 months ago | 189 comments
Supreme Court expands meaning of 'seizure' under 4th Amendment (www.latimes.com)

96 points by gscott over 3 years ago | 138 comments
Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? (www.latimes.com)

96 points by heavyset_go almost 3 years ago | 138 comments
The only thing we should be talking about is the climate crisis (www.latimes.com)

96 points by jader201 over 2 years ago | 187 comments
One man’s fight to end California’s ban on ferrets (www.latimes.com)

94 points by danso about 2 years ago | 151 comments
AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars (www.latimes.com)

93 points by hentrep 5 months ago | 145 comments
WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers' strike (www.latimes.com)

92 points by voisin 12 months ago | 72 comments
Why psychology isn’t science (2012) (www.latimes.com)

91 points by peterthehacker over 3 years ago | 120 comments
Alarmed by Tesla’s self-driving test, state legislators demand answers from DMV (www.latimes.com)

90 points by turtlegrids almost 3 years ago | 156 comments
I’m ready to trade in my electric car (www.latimes.com)

89 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | 332 comments
Decline in effectiveness of all three US Covid-19 vaccines over time (www.latimes.com)

85 points by News-Dog almost 3 years ago | 282 comments
Apple gives top engineers bonuses up of $180k to curtail defections to Meta[..] (www.latimes.com)

85 points by jelliclesfarm over 2 years ago | 125 comments
Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric (www.latimes.com)

84 points by ilamont about 2 years ago | 190 comments