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Top www.cnn.com stories from all time

all-time year month week

1.

Chelsea Manning released from prison (www.cnn.com)

629 points by nerdy 2017-05-17 | 258 comments

2.

Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions (www.cnn.com)

489 points by matttah 2014-03-28 | 238 comments

3.

Are jobs obsolete? (www.cnn.com)

436 points by ekm2 2011-09-07 | 311 comments

4.

Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? (www.cnn.com)

413 points by marcinw 2011-05-23 | 412 comments

5.

Killing cancer like the common cold (www.cnn.com)

331 points by interconnector 2013-12-07 | 96 comments

6.

Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds (www.cnn.com)

318 points by nikolasavic 2018-10-20 | 222 comments

7.

It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (www.cnn.com)

299 points by mlb_hn 2018-03-27 | 110 comments

8.

Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) (www.cnn.com)

225 points by curtis 2017-12-09 | 52 comments

9.

Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars (www.cnn.com)

223 points by DarkContinent 2016-10-11 | 211 comments

10.

The Chairless Chair, an invisible chair that you can wear (www.cnn.com)

220 points by 51Cards 2014-08-20 | 68 comments

11.

US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021 (www.cnn.com)

218 points by daegloe 2019-03-09 | 256 comments

12.

Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters (www.cnn.com)

215 points by gscott 2019-01-21 | 111 comments

13.

It's time to break up the NSA (www.cnn.com)

215 points by privong 2014-02-21 | 98 comments

14.

Lessig: Why Washington is corrupt (www.cnn.com)

207 points by jv22222 2013-04-07 | 144 comments

15.

Malaysia will return contaminated plastic waste to the countries that shipped it (www.cnn.com)

206 points by DoreenMichele 2019-05-28 | 145 comments

16.

Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts (www.cnn.com)

201 points by tlb 2018-09-14 | 160 comments

17.

DEF CON: The event that scares hackers (www.cnn.com)

196 points by alexmr 2011-08-06 | 41 comments

18.

Facebook hype will fade (www.cnn.com)

192 points by sdizdar 2011-01-07 | 118 comments

19.

Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m. (www.cnn.com)

191 points by edw519 2012-04-16 | 181 comments

20.

Why being a thinker takes quiet time (www.cnn.com)

176 points by typicalrunt 2013-10-23 | 57 comments

21.

CNN covers SOPA on homepage (www.cnn.com)

170 points by solipsist 2012-01-08 | 29 comments

22.

Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years (www.cnn.com)

170 points by tocomment 2013-07-31 | 105 comments

23.

Fair trial impossible in U.S., Snowden tells Ecuador (www.cnn.com)

160 points by mathattack 2013-06-24 | 107 comments

24.

In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban (www.cnn.com)

156 points by ojbyrne 2011-08-11 | 135 comments

25.

'Godfather' of Helvetica font, Mike Parker, dies at 84 (www.cnn.com)

152 points by 51Cards 2014-02-28 | 45 comments

26.

Lawrence Lessig: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs (www.cnn.com)

151 points by shawnee_ 2012-03-15 | 42 comments

27.

No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington (www.cnn.com)

146 points by Alex3917 2013-08-29 | 86 comments

28.

Billionaire Robert F. Smith pledges to pay Morehouse 2019 grads’ student loans (www.cnn.com)

144 points by Toyentrepreneur 2019-05-20 | 161 comments

29.

Poor Kids of Silicon Valley (www.cnn.com)

144 points by metasean 2015-03-11 | 269 comments

30.

Stephen Hawking 'very ill' (www.cnn.com)

144 points by rms 2009-04-20 | 57 comments

31.

Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote (www.cnn.com)

141 points by maximilianburke 2019-05-27 | 141 comments

32.

Death threats and denial for woman who showed college athletes struggle to read (www.cnn.com)

139 points by codelion 2014-01-10 | 137 comments

33.

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer (www.cnn.com)

139 points by gibsonf1 2008-09-30 | 84 comments

34.

Samsung's folding screen tech has been stolen and sold to China (www.cnn.com)

138 points by RobLach 2018-11-30 | 89 comments

35.

Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough' (www.cnn.com)

135 points by 51Cards 2014-04-08 | 50 comments

36.

Retracted autism/vaccine study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds (www.cnn.com)

133 points by there 2011-01-06 | 127 comments

37.

Sitting for hours can shave years off life (www.cnn.com)

126 points by nswanberg 2011-06-27 | 130 comments

38.

The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon (www.cnn.com)

126 points by prostoalex 2018-10-14 | 81 comments

39.

Venezuela, Bolivia offer asylum to U.S. intel leaker Snowden (www.cnn.com)

125 points by esalazar 2013-07-06 | 62 comments

40.

Slavery's last stronghold (www.cnn.com)

124 points by soundsop 2012-03-19 | 102 comments

41.

Experimental Drug Likely Saved Ebola Patients (www.cnn.com)

123 points by codexjourneys 2014-08-05 | 91 comments

42.

Wozniak: Facts in Steve Jobs movie look 'atrocious' (www.cnn.com)

120 points by mactitan 2013-02-02 | 57 comments

43.

World's deepest pool to open in Poland (www.cnn.com)

115 points by HillaryBriss 2019-04-02 | 77 comments

44.

Paul Allen finds long-lost Japanese battleship (www.cnn.com)

109 points by kenjackson 2015-03-04 | 71 comments

45.

Man gets $75 after being wrongly imprisoned for 31 years (www.cnn.com)

107 points by SQL2219 2016-12-23 | 54 comments

46.

Payless is closing all its U.S. stores (www.cnn.com)

107 points by malshe 2019-02-16 | 86 comments

47.

95 years after disappearance, the USS Conestoga is found (www.cnn.com)

107 points by curtis 2016-03-24 | 16 comments

48.

Facebook promised to fix political ads on its platform. It hasn't (www.cnn.com)

107 points by MilnerRoute 2018-11-01 | 36 comments

49.

Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5 (www.cnn.com)

104 points by brutus1213 2021-05-27 | 27 comments

50.

An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist (www.cnn.com)

103 points by curtis 2019-05-25 | 61 comments

51.

Computer scientists urge Clinton campaign to challenge election results (www.cnn.com)

103 points by plessthanpt05 2016-11-23 | 91 comments

52.

Lunar mystery solved by recovery of lost Apollo mission tapes (www.cnn.com)

102 points by curtis 2018-07-09 | 27 comments

53.

DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border (www.cnn.com)

101 points by howard941 2019-05-02 | 114 comments

54.

FBI director defends impersonation of AP reporter (www.cnn.com)

98 points by 001sky 2014-11-07 | 87 comments

55.

Explosions in Kiev and Kharkiv now [CNN] (www.cnn.com)

96 points by AlexeyBrin 2022-02-24 | 24 comments

56.

Wikipedia, other websites go dark in anti-piracy bill protest (www.cnn.com)

94 points by Xurinos 2012-01-18 | 41 comments

57.

Pinterest founder kept going to avoid embarassment of failure (www.cnn.com)

92 points by acak 2012-03-14 | 13 comments

58.

Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users (2011) (www.cnn.com)

88 points by rst 2013-11-17 | 32 comments

59.

SpaceX craft launches from Florida (www.cnn.com)

87 points by MikeCapone 2010-12-08 | 13 comments

60.

The impact of homelessness and the opioid crisis on San Francisco streets (www.cnn.com)

83 points by daegloe 2018-12-27 | 101 comments

61.

Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors to boost sales (www.cnn.com)

81 points by aaronbrethorst 2019-04-30 | 37 comments

62.

High-school teen builds one-man submarine for $2,000 (www.cnn.com)

80 points by smaili 2013-06-04 | 28 comments

63.

Diet hacker data point (www.cnn.com)

80 points by raleec 2010-11-08 | 74 comments

64.

Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee (www.cnn.com)

77 points by nirmal 2008-06-04 | 125 comments

65.

Lester's Time Has Come Today (Thanks, HN, You got this started) (www.cnn.com)

76 points by kn0thing 2012-12-25 | 14 comments

66.

4.4 billion-year-old crystal is oldest confirmed piece of Earth (www.cnn.com)

74 points by pree 2014-02-25 | 34 comments

67.

She's a beauty and a geek: Supermodel is a coder (www.cnn.com)

72 points by dak1 2014-01-21 | 72 comments

68.

Skyscrapers, trains and roads: How Addis Ababa came to look like a Chinese city (www.cnn.com)

72 points by tintinnabula 2018-09-04 | 35 comments

69.

Silicon Valley doesn't create jobs; it's wiping out middle-class jobs (www.cnn.com)

72 points by antisocial 2015-03-18 | 70 comments

70.

College is a waste of time (www.cnn.com)

72 points by bry 2011-06-03 | 80 comments

71.

Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees say crosses a line (www.cnn.com)

72 points by metaphysics 2019-02-26 | 79 comments

72.

New elephant study shows catastrophic decline in Africa (www.cnn.com)

72 points by adamnemecek 2016-08-31 | 67 comments

73.

Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet (www.cnn.com)

71 points by JayXon 2015-10-27 | 46 comments

74.

Nasa to test ‘quiet’ supersonic flights over Texas (www.cnn.com)

71 points by daegloe 2018-07-03 | 73 comments

75.

My open source cure for brain cancer (www.cnn.com)

70 points by evo_9 2012-11-26 | 75 comments

76.

Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6 (www.cnn.com)

69 points by drusenko 2009-08-06 | 11 comments

77.

Drones visit California wildfire, angering firefighters (www.cnn.com)

69 points by stefap2 2015-07-19 | 76 comments

78.

Mass grave may belong to Viking Great Army (www.cnn.com)

69 points by curtis 2018-02-04 | 18 comments

79.

Lufthansa Sues Hidden City Ticketholder for Throwing His Ticket (www.cnn.com)

69 points by mchannon 2019-02-12 | 112 comments

80.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo completes 2nd powered flight (www.cnn.com)

68 points by timjahn 2013-09-06 | 25 comments

81.

Hundreds of Roman gold coins found in basement of old theater (www.cnn.com)

67 points by daddy_drank 2018-09-11 | 42 comments

82.

Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire from Supreme Court (www.cnn.com)

66 points by benryon 2018-06-27 | 40 comments

83.

Airbus ending A380 program (www.cnn.com)

65 points by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2019-02-14 | 9 comments

84.

For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous (www.cnn.com)

64 points by ryan_j_naughton 2019-05-12 | 88 comments

85.

How a Vietnamese helicopter pilot saved his family (www.cnn.com)

63 points by fortepianissimo 2015-04-30 | 14 comments

86.

What teachers want to tell parents (www.cnn.com)

62 points by munin 2011-09-08 | 99 comments

87.

Thursday Beirut suicide bombings kill 43 (www.cnn.com)

61 points by personjerry 2015-11-14 | 20 comments

88.

Apple Removes Parler from App Store (www.cnn.com)

61 points by ffwang2 2021-01-10 | 25 comments

89.

Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at airports (www.cnn.com)

61 points by smacktoward 2019-01-04 | 89 comments

90.

Half of Americans think Facebook is a fad (www.cnn.com)

60 points by davidtyleryork 2012-05-16 | 65 comments

91.

Why the world is full of buttons that don't work (www.cnn.com)

59 points by electic 2018-09-03 | 69 comments

92.

Scientists find gold growing on trees in Australia (www.cnn.com)

58 points by gwomble 2013-10-23 | 23 comments

93.

Steve Wozniak is first in line for iPhone 4S (www.cnn.com)

57 points by paran 2011-10-14 | 19 comments

94.

Rural suicides among farmers (www.cnn.com)

57 points by wglb 2018-08-21 | 58 comments

95.

WHO: Cell phone use can increase cancer risk (www.cnn.com)

57 points by antirez 2011-05-31 | 36 comments

96.

We're living the dream; we just don't realize it (www.cnn.com)

57 points by rmah 2012-11-24 | 102 comments

97.

Study: Reddit used by 6% of adult Internet users (www.cnn.com)

56 points by grizzy 2013-07-06 | 52 comments

98.

Milos Forman Has Died (www.cnn.com)

55 points by adamnemecek 2018-04-14 | 8 comments

99.

In war for talent, 'brogrammers' will be losers (www.cnn.com)

55 points by mlLK 2012-05-10 | 71 comments

100.

A strange-looking fish washed up on a California beach (www.cnn.com)

54 points by curtis 2019-03-01 | 38 comments

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