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1.

Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives (www.newyorker.com)

1483 points by mattmight 2014-07-17 | 109 comments

2.

Let Snowden Come Home (www.newyorker.com)

785 points by donohoe 2015-06-03 | 296 comments

3.

How the Elderly Lose Their Rights (www.newyorker.com)

726 points by CommieBobDole 2017-10-03 | 251 comments

4.

The Really Big One (www.newyorker.com)

612 points by Thevet 2015-07-13 | 274 comments

5.

The New Yorker Strongbox (www.newyorker.com)

583 points by danso 2013-05-15 | 164 comments

6.

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds (www.newyorker.com)

531 points by ryan_j_naughton 2017-03-07 | 336 comments

7.

A Pickpocket's Tale (www.newyorker.com)

528 points by danso 2012-12-31 | 68 comments

8.

The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News (www.newyorker.com)

525 points by hhs 2019-04-10 | 338 comments

9.

The Friendship That Made Google Huge (www.newyorker.com)

513 points by adrianhon 2018-12-03 | 98 comments

10.

How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley (www.newyorker.com)

504 points by sajid 2016-06-09 | 301 comments

11.

Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny (www.newyorker.com)

487 points by flylib 2016-10-03 | 302 comments

12.

The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty (www.newyorker.com)

472 points by Tloewald 2015-03-17 | 209 comments

13.

Taken (www.newyorker.com)

468 points by zt 2013-08-05 | 223 comments

14.

For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose (www.newyorker.com)

459 points by wyclif 2018-06-07 | 393 comments

15.

Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them (www.newyorker.com)

438 points by anthotny 2017-08-08 | 168 comments

16.

After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him (www.newyorker.com)

428 points by danso 2014-02-04 | 139 comments

17.

Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary (www.newyorker.com)

423 points by matt4077 2018-04-20 | 74 comments

18.

How to Be a Stoic (www.newyorker.com)

416 points by Tomte 2017-02-24 | 237 comments

19.

Steve Jobs's Real Genius (www.newyorker.com)

414 points by iamclovin 2011-11-07 | 145 comments

20.

Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero (www.newyorker.com)

410 points by danboarder 2013-06-12 | 40 comments

21.

The Space Doctor’s Big Idea (www.newyorker.com)

409 points by mackmcconnell 2015-11-18 | 90 comments

22.

Why Walking Helps Us Think (2014) (www.newyorker.com)

407 points by bootload 2017-05-01 | 117 comments

23.

A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing (www.newyorker.com)

406 points by anigbrowl 2016-12-26 | 172 comments

24.

Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet (www.newyorker.com)

401 points by smacktoward 2018-03-12 | 717 comments

25.

A New Way to Learn Economics (www.newyorker.com)

398 points by mxschumacher 2017-09-11 | 218 comments

26.

Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee (www.newyorker.com)

379 points by misnamed 2016-08-22 | 228 comments

27.

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact (www.newyorker.com)

375 points by ux-app 2014-11-08 | 160 comments

28.

The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent (www.newyorker.com)

374 points by eroo 2014-11-17 | 216 comments

29.

How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide (www.newyorker.com)

360 points by aaronchall 2017-06-23 | 88 comments

30.

A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (2013) (www.newyorker.com)

354 points by ahris 2014-07-31 | 176 comments

31.

The Day the Dinosaurs Died (www.newyorker.com)

354 points by Deinos 2019-03-30 | 69 comments

32.

Estonia, the Digital Republic (www.newyorker.com)

351 points by jkaljundi 2017-12-11 | 110 comments

33.

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (www.newyorker.com)

347 points by juanplusjuan 2015-02-03 | 149 comments

34.

How Trees Calm Us Down (www.newyorker.com)

345 points by Vigier 2016-07-08 | 92 comments

35.

The United States of Japan (www.newyorker.com)

344 points by kawera 2018-05-05 | 142 comments

36.

The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons (www.newyorker.com)

341 points by petethomas 2017-10-24 | 238 comments

37.

Facebook’s Very Bad Month Just Got Worse (www.newyorker.com)

332 points by jaytaylor 2018-12-06 | 228 comments

38.

Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (2015) (www.newyorker.com)

329 points by oftenwrong 2018-03-02 | 245 comments

39.

The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess (www.newyorker.com)

329 points by type4 2017-03-23 | 434 comments

40.

The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism (www.newyorker.com)

323 points by headalgorithm 2019-04-13 | 196 comments

41.

What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (2004) (www.newyorker.com)

314 points by adenadel 2017-12-04 | 224 comments

42.

How Chris McCandless Died: An Update (www.newyorker.com)

311 points by bkudria 2015-02-11 | 78 comments

43.

What Ever Happened to Google Books? (www.newyorker.com)

303 points by jeo1234 2015-09-12 | 119 comments

44.

Why Smart People Are Stupid (www.newyorker.com)

302 points by mshafrir 2012-06-12 | 213 comments

45.

The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis (www.newyorker.com)

301 points by okket 2018-09-11 | 391 comments

46.

Why the S.E.C. didn't hit Goldman Sachs harder (www.newyorker.com)

294 points by JMiao 2016-04-21 | 191 comments

47.

Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers (www.newyorker.com)

291 points by sasvari 2017-11-12 | 75 comments

48.

The Voyeur's Motel (www.newyorker.com)

287 points by MrJagil 2016-04-05 | 98 comments

49.

How Lavabit Melted Down (www.newyorker.com)

287 points by jeanbebe 2013-10-08 | 172 comments

50.

Improving Ourselves to Death (www.newyorker.com)

281 points by kawera 2018-01-10 | 101 comments

51.

The Mind of Marc Andreessen (www.newyorker.com)

281 points by cpeterso 2015-05-11 | 139 comments

52.

The Caging of America (www.newyorker.com)

279 points by davux 2012-03-11 | 219 comments

53.

A Star in a Bottle (www.newyorker.com)

276 points by numlocked 2014-02-24 | 157 comments

54.

What It Felt Like in Hawaii When Warning of an In-Bound Missile Arrived (www.newyorker.com)

273 points by mathgenius 2018-01-14 | 354 comments

55.

An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012) (www.newyorker.com)

272 points by godarderik 2014-08-15 | 106 comments

56.

The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing (www.newyorker.com)

270 points by gringoDan 2019-01-28 | 106 comments

57.

The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity (www.newyorker.com)

250 points by mathgenius 2017-01-29 | 114 comments

58.

The Engineer’s Lament (www.newyorker.com)

248 points by nate 2015-04-27 | 144 comments

59.

The Whole Haystack: The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records (www.newyorker.com)

247 points by djoldman 2015-01-19 | 162 comments

60.

How did we get so busy? (www.newyorker.com)

246 points by ust 2014-05-19 | 138 comments

61.

Air Pollution in Our Homes (www.newyorker.com)

246 points by kingkawn 2019-05-08 | 130 comments

62.

Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad (www.newyorker.com)

245 points by AngryParsley 2011-08-01 | 140 comments

63.

How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games (www.newyorker.com)

245 points by jsomers 2018-12-28 | 77 comments

64.

Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple (www.newyorker.com)

245 points by sinak 2015-02-16 | 150 comments

65.

Why Paper Jams Persist (www.newyorker.com)

242 points by ohjeez 2018-02-05 | 77 comments

66.

Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Edward Snowden (www.newyorker.com)

242 points by morgante 2015-10-17 | 108 comments

67.

Almost Everything in "Dr. Strangelove" Was True (www.newyorker.com)

241 points by route66 2014-01-23 | 133 comments

68.

New York’s Shadow Transit (www.newyorker.com)

239 points by philers 2014-07-02 | 123 comments

69.

Strongbox and Aaron Swartz (www.newyorker.com)

239 points by Libertatea 2013-05-15 | 22 comments

70.

The Madness of Airline Élite Status (www.newyorker.com)

236 points by ohjeez 2016-02-23 | 246 comments

71.

Getting Better at Getting Better (www.newyorker.com)

236 points by juanplusjuan 2014-11-16 | 76 comments

72.

SWAT-Team Nation: The Militarization of the U.S. Police (www.newyorker.com)

234 points by georgecmu 2013-08-09 | 159 comments

73.

Are Malls Over? (www.newyorker.com)

230 points by pesenti 2014-03-16 | 239 comments

74.

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is yielding results (2015) (www.newyorker.com)

227 points by arikr 2016-11-30 | 95 comments

75.

How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online (www.newyorker.com)

226 points by Dowwie 2017-11-14 | 194 comments

76.

My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years (www.newyorker.com)

223 points by lermontov 2017-06-23 | 76 comments

77.

Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World (www.newyorker.com)

223 points by kawera 2016-06-06 | 199 comments

78.

Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use (www.newyorker.com)

218 points by ezhil 2014-12-15 | 89 comments

79.

We Now Know More About the Apparent Poisoning of the Pussy Riot Member (www.newyorker.com)

217 points by jbegley 2018-09-20 | 127 comments

80.

Cheap and simple medical devices have to overcome deeply rooted biases (www.newyorker.com)

217 points by theBashShell 2019-02-11 | 134 comments

81.

I had an autoimmune disease, then the disease had me (2013) (www.newyorker.com)

215 points by daegloe 2017-03-12 | 138 comments

82.

Netflix’s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human (www.newyorker.com)

214 points by donohoe 2015-01-28 | 59 comments

83.

Science saved me from pretending to love wine (www.newyorker.com)

214 points by fanf2 2017-10-01 | 205 comments

84.

Is There Any Point to Protesting? (www.newyorker.com)

212 points by rafaelc 2017-08-26 | 252 comments

85.

Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010) (www.newyorker.com)

212 points by Aloha 2013-12-04 | 171 comments

86.

Why Ageism Never Gets Old (www.newyorker.com)

212 points by eludwig 2017-11-16 | 262 comments

87.

The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” (www.newyorker.com)

212 points by zonotope 2017-09-28 | 266 comments

88.

Why Walking Helps Us Think (www.newyorker.com)

211 points by chippy 2014-09-04 | 50 comments

89.

Double Solitude (www.newyorker.com)

210 points by pepys 2016-10-18 | 42 comments

90.

The Man Who Built Catan (www.newyorker.com)

210 points by route66 2014-02-16 | 111 comments

91.

How Chris McCandless Died (www.newyorker.com)

208 points by dctoedt 2013-09-12 | 129 comments

92.

What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005) (www.newyorker.com)

207 points by cZuLi 2016-10-13 | 58 comments

93.

Nukes of Hazard (2013) (www.newyorker.com)

207 points by sizzle 2014-07-30 | 171 comments

94.

HappyOrNot terminals look simple, but the information they gather is revelatory (www.newyorker.com)

205 points by aarghh 2018-02-04 | 117 comments

95.

Practice Doesn't Make Perfect (www.newyorker.com)

203 points by agarden 2016-10-01 | 137 comments

96.

Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction (www.newyorker.com)

202 points by samclemens 2017-03-29 | 79 comments

97.

“Becoming Warren Buffett,” the Man, Not the Investor (www.newyorker.com)

202 points by artsandsci 2017-02-01 | 100 comments

98.

Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write (www.newyorker.com)

200 points by diodorus 2018-04-05 | 152 comments

99.

Deutsche Bank’s $10B Scandal (www.newyorker.com)

200 points by doener 2016-08-23 | 52 comments

100.

Physicists Still Don’t Know What Puts the Curl in Curling (www.newyorker.com)

194 points by hoaxcracker 2018-03-15 | 87 comments

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