Top Hackernews posts from www.sfchronicle.com

S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’ (www.sfchronicle.com)

388 points by mikhael about 1 year ago | 909 comments
S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010 (www.sfchronicle.com)

326 points by memish over 2 years ago | 423 comments
Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F (www.sfchronicle.com)

302 points by rntn 3 months ago | 435 comments
Bay Area homeowner is the face of California’s latest housing drama (www.sfchronicle.com)

294 points by kyeb over 1 year ago | 213 comments
Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning (www.sfchronicle.com)

255 points by g8oz about 3 years ago | 344 comments
San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet (www.sfchronicle.com)

215 points by crhulls almost 2 years ago | 769 comments
San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels (www.sfchronicle.com)

192 points by apsec112 9 months ago | 288 comments
Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreens to close 17 stores (www.sfchronicle.com)

170 points by SQL2219 over 3 years ago | 189 comments
Downtown S.F. on the brink: It’s worse than it looks (www.sfchronicle.com)

165 points by onesafari over 2 years ago | 256 comments
California is about to side with PG&E – again – to kill community solar projects (www.sfchronicle.com)

151 points by billybob69 4 months ago | 135 comments
Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy (www.sfchronicle.com)

144 points by endtwist over 1 year ago | 347 comments
Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud, but don't forget about her VC enablers (www.sfchronicle.com)

135 points by xojoc almost 3 years ago | 102 comments
Willie Mays, SF Giants baseball player, has died (www.sfchronicle.com)

131 points by coloneltcb 3 months ago | 33 comments
San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam (www.sfchronicle.com)

130 points by arkadiyt over 2 years ago | 131 comments
Trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, was no match for city bureaucracy (www.sfchronicle.com)

126 points by jseliger over 3 years ago | 142 comments
Apple to mandate three days in a week in the office by Labor Day (www.sfchronicle.com)

119 points by donohoe about 2 years ago | 2 comments
Court overturns state ruling on San Francisco’s infamous 469 Stevenson project (www.sfchronicle.com)

117 points by jseliger almost 2 years ago | 128 comments
Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave (www.sfchronicle.com)

116 points by TMWNN 5 months ago | 114 comments
San Francisco is one of CA’s most conservative cities when it comes to housing (www.sfchronicle.com)

114 points by edward over 3 years ago | 108 comments
Prominent S.F. developers charged with bribery in widening corruption scandal (www.sfchronicle.com)

114 points by cft 10 months ago | 49 comments
Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming (www.sfchronicle.com)

102 points by impish9208 10 months ago | 97 comments
Black couple ‘erases themselves’ from their home, its value goes up by $500k (www.sfchronicle.com)

100 points by enraged_camel almost 3 years ago | 169 comments
San Francisco's homelessness is a humanitarian crisis (www.sfchronicle.com)

99 points by tosh almost 3 years ago | 205 comments
Silicon Valley elites revealed as investors behind $800M Bay Area land grab (www.sfchronicle.com)

99 points by jonah about 1 year ago | 118 comments
Tech giants Meta, Amazon lay off more workers as cuts continue (www.sfchronicle.com)

97 points by uladzislau 12 months ago | 86 comments
A Chronicle reporter went undercover in high school (www.sfchronicle.com)

97 points by mooreds 6 months ago | 83 comments
Ex-S.F. fire commissioner with fractured skull after metal pipe attack (www.sfchronicle.com)

97 points by nailer over 1 year ago | 66 comments
Alameda County admits tallying error in ranked choice voting (www.sfchronicle.com)

92 points by erehweb over 1 year ago | 149 comments
Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction (www.sfchronicle.com)

91 points by mikhael over 1 year ago | 121 comments
Prop. 22, the gig worker exemption for Uber and Lyft, is ruled unconstitutional (www.sfchronicle.com)

88 points by warning26 about 3 years ago | 2 comments
OpenAI closes big lease deal at Uber's San Francisco headquarters (www.sfchronicle.com)

82 points by babelfish 11 months ago | 60 comments
San Francisco could collapse – what should California do about it? (www.sfchronicle.com)

79 points by aranchelk over 1 year ago | 142 comments
S.F. apartment rents fell again (www.sfchronicle.com)

78 points by latchkey over 1 year ago | 129 comments
San Francisco recorded a 753 percent rise in car burglaries compared to May 2020 (www.sfchronicle.com)

77 points by sahin about 3 years ago | 56 comments
USA Cycling champion dies after being struck by car in San Francisco’s Presidio (www.sfchronicle.com)

74 points by latchkey over 1 year ago | 116 comments
Xfinity outage leaves tens of thousands in the Bay Area without internet (www.sfchronicle.com)

73 points by no_wizard almost 3 years ago | 72 comments
California Exit Interview: Fleeing $17 salads and 'general lawlessness' (www.sfchronicle.com)

72 points by dfgdghdf over 3 years ago | 99 comments
Uber attempting to reduce office space in SF / 31% of office leases open (www.sfchronicle.com)

72 points by omgJustTest over 1 year ago | 108 comments
Tech layoffs: Google, Amazon, Snap and Zillow announce new job cuts (www.sfchronicle.com)

70 points by belter 10 months ago | 66 comments
Arrest made in Bob Lee killing; suspect was tech exec (www.sfchronicle.com)

68 points by toss1 over 1 year ago | 3 comments
Cruise blames Outside Lands for driverless car traffic fiasco in San Francisco (www.sfchronicle.com)

67 points by mikhael about 1 year ago | 67 comments
Driver hits woman in S.F., then Cruise driverless car runs her over (www.sfchronicle.com)

65 points by wpietri 12 months ago | 1 comments
Kids sickened by police training may have ingested decades old chemical weapons (www.sfchronicle.com)

63 points by anigbrowl 4 months ago | 26 comments
Video shows San Francisco police watching as burglary unfolds (www.sfchronicle.com)

62 points by drewbug01 almost 3 years ago | 65 comments
Stanford will once again require standardized tests for undergraduate admission (www.sfchronicle.com)

62 points by belter 3 months ago | 19 comments
Poll finds more than half of Bay Area residents plan to leave for good (www.sfchronicle.com)

60 points by NeverFade almost 3 years ago | 54 comments
Allstate joins State Farm, stops issuing new homeowners insurance policies in CA (www.sfchronicle.com)

58 points by robbiet480 over 1 year ago | 29 comments
S.F. sued over homeless camp sweeps: city charged with criminalizing unsheltered (www.sfchronicle.com)

56 points by jelliclesfarm almost 2 years ago | 209 comments
Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over (www.sfchronicle.com)

56 points by subharmonicon 12 months ago | 196 comments
S.F. pays $61k/year for one tent to shelter the homeless (www.sfchronicle.com)

55 points by tomashertus over 3 years ago | 27 comments
S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approved vacancy tax (www.sfchronicle.com)

54 points by mhb over 1 year ago | 164 comments
Empty S.F. office tower formerly valued at $62M sold for $6.5M (www.sfchronicle.com)

54 points by iancmceachern 5 months ago | 73 comments
San Francisco's school board in name only (www.sfchronicle.com)

51 points by dsr12 over 3 years ago | 48 comments
Lego latest retailer to leave troubled San Francisco Centre (www.sfchronicle.com)

51 points by tiahura 10 months ago | 61 comments
SF school board recall hits critical milestone to qualify for the ballot (www.sfchronicle.com)

50 points by hncurious about 3 years ago | 10 comments
Outage at Square prevents small businesses from accepting credit cards (www.sfchronicle.com)

50 points by krustyburger about 1 year ago | 2 comments