Top Hackernews posts from www.newstatesman.com

1. Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros (www.newstatesman.com)
   475 points by thm over 3 years | 514 comments
2. CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them? (www.newstatesman.com)
   280 points by nixass over 5 years | 344 comments
3. The last crimes of Caravaggio (www.newstatesman.com)
   218 points by prismatic over 2 years | 47 comments
4. Simon Roper: the 23-year-old reconstructing the past for millions of viewers (www.newstatesman.com)
   180 points by ZeljkoS almost 5 years | 39 comments
5. How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes (www.newstatesman.com)
   158 points by hhs about 5 years | 55 comments
6. Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Mind on Fire (www.newstatesman.com)
   156 points by miobrien almost 5 years | 99 comments
7. The rise of pity marketing (www.newstatesman.com)
   130 points by miiiiiike about 3 years | 70 comments
8. Romantic friendship: deep and lasting connection comes in many forms (www.newstatesman.com)
   128 points by portobello almost 5 years | 81 comments
9. Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece (www.newstatesman.com)
   114 points by tintinnabula over 3 years | 106 comments
10. Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history” (www.newstatesman.com)
    105 points by maram over 4 years | 201 comments
11. Simone Weil’s Great Awakening (www.newstatesman.com)
    98 points by enskied about 3 years | 48 comments
12. Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion (www.newstatesman.com)
    98 points by ironyman almost 3 years | 209 comments
13. How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction (www.newstatesman.com)
    96 points by rutenspitz over 5 years | 24 comments
14. Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics (www.newstatesman.com)
    89 points by pepys over 4 years | 63 comments
15. The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside (www.newstatesman.com)
    84 points by infinate over 2 years | 137 comments
16. Plants that change our consciousness (www.newstatesman.com)
    79 points by Hooke about 5 years | 24 comments
17. Everyone and no one belongs to New York (www.newstatesman.com)
    71 points by samclemens over 5 years | 71 comments
18. Sex, scandal and high society in Chips Channon’s uncensored diaries (www.newstatesman.com)
    70 points by Petiver over 5 years | 21 comments
19. Dürer shaped the modern world (www.newstatesman.com)
    69 points by drdee over 5 years | 21 comments
20. The last days of Silicon Roundabout (www.newstatesman.com)
    65 points by lewisflude almost 5 years | 148 comments
21. Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss (www.newstatesman.com)
    63 points by apollinaire about 3 years | 15 comments
22. Britain’s empire of science (www.newstatesman.com)
    63 points by samclemens almost 4 years | 24 comments
23. Wittgenstein at War (www.newstatesman.com)
    60 points by lermontov about 4 years | 16 comments
24. Bitcoin’s gold rush was always an illusion (www.newstatesman.com)
    56 points by InternetPerson about 5 years | 45 comments
25. Edmund Burke was a more complicated thinker than realized (www.newstatesman.com)
    54 points by commons-tragedy over 3 years | 18 comments
26. London's Victorian Hyperloop: a pneumatic railway beneath the capital (2013) (www.newstatesman.com)
    54 points by frontrowseat about 4 years | 14 comments
27. From aardvark to woke: inside the Oxford English Dictionary (www.newstatesman.com)
    53 points by memorable about 4 years | 109 comments
28. The Ghosts of Mark Fisher (www.newstatesman.com)
    52 points by miobrien over 5 years | 9 comments
29. The War over Academic Freedom (www.newstatesman.com)
    51 points by missinfo almost 5 years | 82 comments