Top Hackernews posts from www.newyorker.com

1. A coder considers the waning days of the craft (www.newyorker.com)
   778 points by jsomers 10 months ago | 1086 comments
2. I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020) (www.newyorker.com)
   600 points by webmaven over 2 years ago | 452 comments
3. ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web (www.newyorker.com)
   574 points by ssaddi over 1 year ago | 305 comments
4. The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight (www.newyorker.com)
   476 points by zlsa about 3 years ago | 251 comments
5. The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999 (www.newyorker.com)
   459 points by prhrb over 1 year ago | 139 comments
6. If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever (www.newyorker.com)
   453 points by ivanvanderbyl about 2 years ago | 404 comments
7. How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London (www.newyorker.com)
   450 points by null_object over 2 years ago | 304 comments
8. Plastics are poisoning us (www.newyorker.com)
   443 points by fortran77 about 1 year ago | 511 comments
9. Is my toddler a stochastic parrot? (www.newyorker.com)
   416 points by zwieback 10 months ago | 340 comments
10. Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns? (www.newyorker.com)
    366 points by pseudolus 4 months ago | 717 comments
11. Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program (www.newyorker.com)
    355 points by cocacola1 7 months ago | 167 comments
12. Why is it so hard to be rational? (www.newyorker.com)
    354 points by ubuwaits about 3 years ago | 295 comments
13. The case for banning children from social media (www.newyorker.com)
    352 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 573 comments
14. There is no A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
    341 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 503 comments
15. Is going to the office a broken way of working? (www.newyorker.com)
    338 points by sien almost 3 years ago | 445 comments
16. Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters? (www.newyorker.com)
    338 points by fspacef about 3 years ago | 710 comments
17. Embrace slow productivity (www.newyorker.com)
    314 points by lxm over 2 years ago | 203 comments
18. Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug (www.newyorker.com)
    313 points by evo_9 over 2 years ago | 225 comments
19. Where have all the insects gone? (www.newyorker.com)
    307 points by jseliger almost 3 years ago | 287 comments
20. The Problem of Marital Loneliness (www.newyorker.com)
    301 points by lermontov almost 3 years ago | 287 comments
21. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
    292 points by nicolast over 2 years ago | 245 comments
22. How the biggest fraud in German history unravelled (www.newyorker.com)
    280 points by tysone over 1 year ago | 148 comments
23. How to quit cars (www.newyorker.com)
    264 points by amatheus over 1 year ago | 801 comments
24. It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022) (www.newyorker.com)
    258 points by rbanffy over 1 year ago | 191 comments
25. A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon (www.newyorker.com)
    253 points by mitchbob 6 months ago | 84 comments
26. The most popular chess streamer on Twitch (www.newyorker.com)
    251 points by mitchbob over 2 years ago | 138 comments
27. TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants (www.newyorker.com)
    249 points by faurosann about 2 years ago | 442 comments
28. Activists who embrace nuclear power (www.newyorker.com)
    249 points by pseudolus over 3 years ago | 586 comments
29. Coffeezilla, a YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams (www.newyorker.com)
    248 points by mitchbob over 2 years ago | 193 comments
30. Nobody Has My Condition but Me (www.newyorker.com)
    243 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 153 comments
31. Can you warm yourself with your mind? (www.newyorker.com)
    241 points by jelliclesfarm over 2 years ago | 177 comments
32. Have we already been visited by aliens? (www.newyorker.com)
    240 points by elorant over 3 years ago | 356 comments
33. The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI (www.newyorker.com)
    240 points by jyunwai 10 months ago | 103 comments
34. Rethinking the Luddites (www.newyorker.com)
    238 points by Hooke 12 months ago | 543 comments
35. Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county (www.newyorker.com)
    237 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 693 comments
36. The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army (www.newyorker.com)
    235 points by mitchbob over 3 years ago | 170 comments
37. Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats (www.newyorker.com)
    234 points by pw over 2 years ago | 257 comments
38. The F.S.O. Safer could spill a million barrels of crude at any moment (www.newyorker.com)
    233 points by richardatlarge almost 3 years ago | 162 comments
39. The search for dirt on Mudge (www.newyorker.com)
    229 points by jrochkind1 about 2 years ago | 225 comments
40. When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost (www.newyorker.com)
    227 points by DLay almost 3 years ago | 492 comments
41. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
    225 points by capableweb about 1 year ago | 244 comments
42. Life After “Calvin and Hobbes” (www.newyorker.com)
    222 points by voisin 11 months ago | 201 comments
43. How food powers the body's metabolism (www.newyorker.com)
    221 points by gautamsomani almost 2 years ago | 199 comments
44. Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020 (www.newyorker.com)
    220 points by _pius over 3 years ago | 37 comments
45. Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of GeoGuessr (www.newyorker.com)
    213 points by fortran77 about 2 years ago | 63 comments
46. Google’s caste-bias problem (www.newyorker.com)
    212 points by frb about 2 years ago | 253 comments
47. "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages (www.newyorker.com)
    211 points by drdee 7 months ago | 250 comments
48. The dead children we must see (www.newyorker.com)
    210 points by jbegley 10 months ago | 506 comments
49. They studied dishonesty – Was their work a lie? (www.newyorker.com)
    210 points by chrisaycock 12 months ago | 153 comments
50. What Google search isn’t showing you (www.newyorker.com)
    205 points by the_decider over 2 years ago | 181 comments
51. What We Gain from a Good Bookstore (www.newyorker.com)
    204 points by pseudolus about 2 years ago | 124 comments
52. Is artificial light poisoning the planet? (www.newyorker.com)
    204 points by fortran77 over 1 year ago | 163 comments
53. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
    196 points by bryanrasmussen over 2 years ago | 75 comments
54. J. Kenji López-Alt says you’re cooking just fine (www.newyorker.com)
    196 points by nkurz over 2 years ago | 169 comments
55. Forgetting My First Language (www.newyorker.com)
    192 points by Thevet about 3 years ago | 171 comments
56. How much can Duolingo teach us? (www.newyorker.com)
    192 points by herbertl over 1 year ago | 331 comments
57. The Frustration with Productivity Culture (www.newyorker.com)
    191 points by x43b about 3 years ago | 101 comments
58. How hospice became a for profit hustle (www.newyorker.com)
    190 points by cocacola1 almost 2 years ago | 89 comments
59. What happened when my wife died (www.newyorker.com)
    188 points by drdee almost 2 years ago | 81 comments
60. Have iPhone cameras become too smart? (www.newyorker.com)
    186 points by tomduncalf over 2 years ago | 299 comments
61. Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never arrived (2018) (www.newyorker.com)
    186 points by keiferski over 2 years ago | 124 comments
62. The original “Bambi” (www.newyorker.com)
    186 points by Thevet over 2 years ago | 227 comments
63. An app called Libby and the big business of library e-books (www.newyorker.com)
    186 points by samizdis about 3 years ago | 141 comments
64. Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces (www.newyorker.com)
    185 points by caaqil over 2 years ago | 177 comments
65. The Great Siberian Thaw (www.newyorker.com)
    185 points by narpaldhillon over 2 years ago | 101 comments
66. The Miseducation of Maria Montessori (www.newyorker.com)
    184 points by fortran77 over 2 years ago | 224 comments
67. The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit (www.newyorker.com)
    184 points by frb over 3 years ago | 57 comments
68. A CIA hacker’s revenge (www.newyorker.com)
    180 points by jbegley over 2 years ago | 252 comments
69. How to Read “Gilgamesh” (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
    179 points by perihelions almost 3 years ago | 118 comments
70. The Revolution in Classic Tetris (www.newyorker.com)
    178 points by irtefa over 3 years ago | 71 comments
71. Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019) (www.newyorker.com)
    176 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 226 comments
72. How ECMO is redefining death (www.newyorker.com)
    175 points by _xerces_ 5 months ago | 158 comments
73. The Great Electrician Shortage (www.newyorker.com)
    175 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 348 comments
74. UPS and the package wars (www.newyorker.com)
    173 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 163 comments
75. What we still don’t know about how A.I. is trained (www.newyorker.com)
    173 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 197 comments
76. Can we talk to whales? (www.newyorker.com)
    172 points by fortran77 about 1 year ago | 157 comments
77. Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (2015) (www.newyorker.com)
    171 points by thunderbong over 2 years ago | 354 comments
78. The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077 (www.newyorker.com)
    170 points by mitchbob almost 3 years ago | 255 comments
79. What Data Can’t Do (www.newyorker.com)
    170 points by RiderOfGiraffes over 3 years ago | 101 comments
80. What happens to all the stuff we return? (www.newyorker.com)
    169 points by pseudolus about 1 year ago | 244 comments
81. I’m thrilled to announce that nothing is going on with me (www.newyorker.com)
    167 points by mrzool almost 2 years ago | 60 comments
82. What a major solar storm could do (www.newyorker.com)
    167 points by fortran77 7 months ago | 170 comments
83. Cory Doctorow wants you to know what computers can and can’t do (www.newyorker.com)
    166 points by cocacola1 almost 2 years ago | 63 comments
84. A Brief History of the Hedge Fund (www.newyorker.com)
    166 points by fortran77 over 3 years ago | 77 comments
85. The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas (www.newyorker.com)
    164 points by fortran77 about 2 years ago | 216 comments
86. Whispers of A.I.’s Modular Future (www.newyorker.com)
    162 points by lispybanana over 1 year ago | 52 comments
87. Baruch Spinoza and the art of thinking in dangerous times (www.newyorker.com)
    162 points by mitchbob 7 months ago | 71 comments
88. The dystopian underworld of South Africa’s illegal gold mines (www.newyorker.com)
    161 points by cocacola1 over 1 year ago | 126 comments
89. Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones (www.newyorker.com)
    159 points by jbegley over 1 year ago | 187 comments
90. The enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books (www.newyorker.com)
    158 points by mirthlessend about 2 years ago | 94 comments
91. How Dowries Are Fuelling a Femicide Epidemic (www.newyorker.com)
    157 points by laurex over 1 year ago | 103 comments
92. The Great Crypto Grift May Be Unwinding (www.newyorker.com)
    156 points by fortran77 over 2 years ago | 313 comments
93. LPD: Libertarian Police Department (2014) (www.newyorker.com)
    154 points by BerislavLopac almost 2 years ago | 90 comments
94. The computers are getting better at writing (www.newyorker.com)
    154 points by jgalt212 over 3 years ago | 164 comments
95. Aristotle’s Rules for Living Well (www.newyorker.com)
    152 points by benbreen about 1 year ago | 55 comments
96. The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (2018) (www.newyorker.com)
    151 points by superfunny over 3 years ago | 36 comments
97. The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerers (www.newyorker.com)
    150 points by trauco about 2 years ago | 188 comments
98. John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons” (www.newyorker.com)
    150 points by mooreds over 3 years ago | 54 comments
99. What if remote work didn’t mean working from home? (www.newyorker.com)
    150 points by haakonhr over 3 years ago | 248 comments
100. The secret joke at the heart of the Harvard affirmative-action case (www.newyorker.com)
     149 points by fortran77 over 1 year ago | 260 comments