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all-time year month week

1.

Google is discontinuing Inbox (www.fastcompany.com)

916 points by edwinvlieg 2018-09-12 | 439 comments

2.

I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back (www.fastcompany.com)

805 points by bennettfeely 2018-11-27 | 724 comments

3.

Apple's best product is now privacy (www.fastcompany.com)

717 points by octosphere 2018-09-14 | 418 comments

4.

Oslo made its city center basically car-free (www.fastcompany.com)

473 points by prostoalex 2019-01-25 | 478 comments

5.

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady (www.fastcompany.com)

468 points by endtwist 2012-08-29 | 228 comments

6.

Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy (www.fastcompany.com)

459 points by jbredeche 2019-01-14 | 290 comments

7.

SpaceX just got FCC approval to launch 7,518 satellites (www.fastcompany.com)

438 points by crunchlibrarian 2018-11-15 | 280 comments

8.

The war to sell you a mattress (www.fastcompany.com)

432 points by pastalex 2017-10-17 | 225 comments

9.

Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity (www.fastcompany.com)

426 points by jtoeman 2013-11-21 | 239 comments

10.

Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System (www.fastcompany.com)

391 points by dirwiz 2017-02-27 | 83 comments

11.

Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material (www.fastcompany.com)

362 points by ingve 2018-04-12 | 266 comments

12.

Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true (www.fastcompany.com)

337 points by sohkamyung 2017-09-15 | 288 comments

13.

I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me (www.fastcompany.com)

329 points by laurex 2019-03-20 | 170 comments

14.

The Ocean Cleanup's Machine Is About to Set Sail (www.fastcompany.com)

312 points by CraneWorm 2018-04-24 | 125 comments

15.

WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus (www.fastcompany.com)

295 points by munchor 2017-09-02 | 173 comments

16.

MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it (www.fastcompany.com)

286 points by canistr 2012-04-01 | 30 comments

17.

Inside Stripe (www.fastcompany.com)

281 points by px 2012-02-01 | 75 comments

18.

A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension (www.fastcompany.com)

253 points by georgecmu 2019-04-26 | 117 comments

19.

The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions (www.fastcompany.com)

252 points by zeristor 2018-07-05 | 139 comments

20.

Why some of the best developers keep quitting (www.fastcompany.com)

237 points by gregorymichael 2017-08-08 | 163 comments

21.

Don Norman on how design fails older consumers (www.fastcompany.com)

234 points by probably_wrong 2019-05-08 | 148 comments

22.

The Glory That Was Yahoo (www.fastcompany.com)

226 points by ohjeez 2018-03-21 | 144 comments

23.

Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees (www.fastcompany.com)

217 points by monkeygrinder 2010-12-13 | 40 comments

24.

Paul Graham: Why Y Combinator Replaces The Traditional Corporation (www.fastcompany.com)

215 points by turoczy 2012-02-22 | 93 comments

25.

$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your wallet (www.fastcompany.com)

214 points by d0ne 2011-08-04 | 124 comments

26.

Myst at 25: How it changed gaming, created addicts, and made enemies (www.fastcompany.com)

213 points by johnshades 2018-09-24 | 138 comments

27.

The Amazon Whisperer (2013) (www.fastcompany.com)

212 points by mirap 2015-12-30 | 78 comments

28.

How To Be Happy Anywhere (www.fastcompany.com)

211 points by superasn 2012-02-29 | 100 comments

29.

Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet (www.fastcompany.com)

209 points by Bhilai 2018-05-31 | 178 comments

30.

The humble receipt gets a redesign (www.fastcompany.com)

207 points by colinprince 2019-05-13 | 184 comments

31.

Burning man defeats PayPal (www.fastcompany.com)

200 points by alexandros 2010-08-12 | 98 comments

32.

Want To Disrupt An Industry? Try Actually Working In It First (www.fastcompany.com)

195 points by luxiou 2012-09-28 | 61 comments

33.

How Carrots Became the new Junk Food (www.fastcompany.com)

194 points by hnal943 2011-03-23 | 81 comments

34.

EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021 (www.fastcompany.com)

190 points by johnshades 2019-03-28 | 180 comments

35.

Remain Diligent: SOPA and PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed (www.fastcompany.com)

189 points by nextparadigms 2012-01-14 | 21 comments

36.

I Built a Bot to Apply to Thousands of Jobs at Once (www.fastcompany.com)

186 points by miraj 2017-03-27 | 69 comments

37.

Washington state has passed the country’s toughest net neutrality legislation (www.fastcompany.com)

186 points by sethbannon 2018-02-28 | 54 comments

38.

After NSA's XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches to HTTPS (www.fastcompany.com)

183 points by alecco 2013-08-02 | 114 comments

39.

Fly Like You're Rich With Social Flights (And Private Planes) (www.fastcompany.com)

181 points by valish 2011-05-17 | 57 comments

40.

A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point (www.fastcompany.com)

180 points by markdown 2016-09-01 | 175 comments

41.

Twitter Gave Meerkat Two Hours’ Notice before Cutting Access (www.fastcompany.com)

177 points by byoogle 2015-03-15 | 75 comments

42.

Do the Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram (www.fastcompany.com)

175 points by technologizer 2015-06-23 | 30 comments

43.

“Free” shipping is not actually free (www.fastcompany.com)

174 points by RobAley 2016-11-02 | 213 comments

44.

The Gig Economy Is Being Sued to Death (www.fastcompany.com)

173 points by gregdewa 2015-02-17 | 149 comments

45.

The Spectacular Failure Of Better Place (www.fastcompany.com)

172 points by uladzislau 2014-04-14 | 45 comments

46.

Poverty-Fighting Startups (www.fastcompany.com)

170 points by rmason 2018-01-14 | 133 comments

47.

Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name (2015) (www.fastcompany.com)

170 points by bookofjoe 2019-05-11 | 119 comments

48.

Bill Nguyen: The Boy In The Bubble (www.fastcompany.com)

170 points by d_r 2011-11-12 | 91 comments

49.

Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor (www.fastcompany.com)

169 points by johnshades 2019-03-18 | 148 comments

50.

If Immunity Project (YC W14) succeeds, they'll offer AIDS vaccine for free (www.fastcompany.com)

169 points by ph0rque 2014-01-23 | 40 comments

51.

The Toddler at Y Combinator (www.fastcompany.com)

167 points by jkurnia 2015-08-18 | 103 comments

52.

How To Work From Home Like You Mean It (www.fastcompany.com)

167 points by ifearthenight 2012-01-09 | 73 comments

53.

A real estate company's simple way to offer the homeless a house and a job (www.fastcompany.com)

166 points by Geekette 2018-09-23 | 138 comments

54.

How Writing To-Do Lists Helps Your Brain (www.fastcompany.com)

165 points by prostoalex 2016-09-06 | 58 comments

55.

Google+ invite lands man in jail (www.fastcompany.com)

165 points by fridek 2014-01-09 | 197 comments

56.

How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017) (www.fastcompany.com)

164 points by jpelecanos 2018-10-22 | 123 comments

57.

The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors (www.fastcompany.com)

163 points by cryptoz 2014-04-15 | 113 comments

58.

The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing (www.fastcompany.com)

163 points by julianwa 2012-11-08 | 42 comments

59.

How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (www.fastcompany.com)

158 points by technologizer 2015-07-22 | 69 comments

60.

Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter" (www.fastcompany.com)

154 points by zoowar 2010-12-14 | 35 comments

61.

BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck (www.fastcompany.com)

150 points by ssclafani 2011-06-22 | 97 comments

62.

The Sharp Dropoff In Worker Happiness (www.fastcompany.com)

147 points by philk10 2012-04-30 | 147 comments

63.

Greyston Bakery hires on a first-come, first-served basis, no questions asked (www.fastcompany.com)

145 points by adwmayer 2018-08-20 | 75 comments

64.

How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord (www.fastcompany.com)

144 points by timjahn 2012-06-06 | 137 comments

65.

A virus could increase lithium batteries capacity by 10x (www.fastcompany.com)

141 points by phalien 2010-12-09 | 70 comments

66.

How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday (www.fastcompany.com)

139 points by alwayslearn 2015-11-16 | 95 comments

67.

What If You Combined Co-Working And Daycare? (www.fastcompany.com)

135 points by dzink 2014-02-02 | 67 comments

68.

Airbnb Backyard will sell houses in 2019 (www.fastcompany.com)

134 points by prostoalex 2018-11-30 | 156 comments

69.

YC is One of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies (www.fastcompany.com)

130 points by BenS 2012-02-13 | 35 comments

70.

Lessons from the failure of General Magic (www.fastcompany.com)

130 points by adrian_mrd 2018-07-26 | 50 comments

71.

Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina (www.fastcompany.com)

127 points by santisiri 2015-03-13 | 104 comments

72.

Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does has bad effects (www.fastcompany.com)

127 points by pm24601 2019-03-17 | 153 comments

73.

The Instagram Effect: National Geographic Suspends Its Popular Account (www.fastcompany.com)

126 points by anuaitt 2012-12-20 | 36 comments

74.

Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women (www.fastcompany.com)

126 points by samsolomon 2015-03-05 | 193 comments

75.

The Water Abundance XPrize winner makes water from air (www.fastcompany.com)

122 points by sandyshankar 2018-10-25 | 128 comments

76.

Inside Obama's stealth startup (www.fastcompany.com)

121 points by fred256 2015-06-15 | 101 comments

77.

Y Combinator Is Launching a “Grad School” for Booming Startups (www.fastcompany.com)

119 points by katm 2018-02-08 | 7 comments

78.

WeWork has bought Flatiron School (www.fastcompany.com)

119 points by lquist 2017-10-23 | 48 comments

79.

New deep learning course by Andrew Ng (www.fastcompany.com)

119 points by nilsocket 2017-08-13 | 35 comments

80.

The Great Tech War Of 2012 (www.fastcompany.com)

118 points by ssclafani 2011-10-17 | 43 comments

81.

Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat (www.fastcompany.com)

117 points by curtis 2017-04-18 | 210 comments

82.

Patagonia's CEO Explains How to Make On-Site Child Care Pay for Itself (www.fastcompany.com)

117 points by mattiemass 2016-08-17 | 100 comments

83.

Why work has failed us: Because no one can afford to retire anymore (www.fastcompany.com)

117 points by Impossible 2018-09-06 | 140 comments

84.

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh: Adopt Holacracy Or Leave (www.fastcompany.com)

115 points by jcrites 2015-04-24 | 103 comments

85.

Airbnb Stay Illegal In New York City, Rules Judge (www.fastcompany.com)

114 points by chrisvineup 2013-05-21 | 127 comments

86.

The Many Pivots of Justin.tv (www.fastcompany.com)

112 points by ryanb 2012-06-18 | 17 comments

87.

Chipotle Eats Itself (www.fastcompany.com)

111 points by Overtonwindow 2016-10-17 | 58 comments

88.

Half of Instacart’s drivers earn less than minimum wage, labor group claims (www.fastcompany.com)

111 points by seancaptain 2019-04-20 | 38 comments

89.

IBM's Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer (www.fastcompany.com)

109 points by shuaib 2014-01-09 | 68 comments

90.

What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays (www.fastcompany.com)

108 points by prostoalex 2018-10-11 | 119 comments

91.

How Norwegian Air Upended Travel With Its Cheap Flights (www.fastcompany.com)

106 points by prostoalex 2017-06-25 | 128 comments

92.

Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $100K To Quit College, Start Businesses (www.fastcompany.com)

106 points by davewiner 2011-05-25 | 109 comments

93.

Fertility rates decrease as rents increase (www.fastcompany.com)

105 points by jseliger 2018-02-05 | 95 comments

94.

The Story of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News (www.fastcompany.com)

104 points by JoshGlazebrook 2013-11-23 | 15 comments

95.

How Piracy Made 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' a No. 1 Amazon Best-Seller (www.fastcompany.com)

103 points by ssclafani 2011-05-16 | 34 comments

96.

Mark Zuckerberg's plan for the future of Facebook (www.fastcompany.com)

103 points by technologizer 2015-11-16 | 112 comments

97.

Stanford professor: ‘The workplace is killing people and nobody cares’ (www.fastcompany.com)

103 points by kaboro 2018-12-20 | 65 comments

98.

Why Is Google Building a New Operating System from Scratch? (www.fastcompany.com)

103 points by bertazure 2017-08-17 | 89 comments

99.

Open plan offices don’t live up to the hype, finds Harvard Business School study (www.fastcompany.com)

102 points by rmason 2018-07-20 | 141 comments

100.

Quantum computing is almost ready for business, startup says (www.fastcompany.com)

101 points by seancaptain 2018-09-07 | 40 comments

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