Learning to live with Waymos(newyorker.com)
32 points by njrc | 84 comments
A New Yorker magazine feature by Molly Fischer on how people are adapting to living alongside Waymo driverless robotaxis, told from the back seat.
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The First Candid(newyorker.com)
49 points by Thevet | 12 comments
New Yorker Paris Postcard piece on Daguerre's 1838 Boulevard du Temple photo, the location sleuths identified, and the plaque Paris is placing there.
Back to School, in Gaza(newyorker.com)
8 points by hebelehubele | 2 comments
New Yorker essay by Mosab Abu Toha describing children in Gaza returning to school in tents amid bombed-out buildings, without chairs or desks.
The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio(newyorker.com)
129 points by bookofjoe | 46 comments
New Yorker feature by Jordan Salama about isolated residents of rural Patagonia, Argentina, who exchange personal messages over AM radio broadcasts.
In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology(newyorker.com)
20 points by samizdis | 1 comments
New Yorker piece by Sheelah Kolhatkar on Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk," which examines how Elon Musk accumulated power and challenges his self-mythology.
Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?(newyorker.com)
28 points by adrianhon | 39 comments
New Yorker article by Peter Hessler about Colorado's Million Dollar Highway, a dangerous road prone to rockfall and avalanches, and why it hasn't been fixed.
Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor(newyorker.com)
8 points by conorcleary | 1 comments
New Yorker essay by Alex Wellerstein marking the 75th anniversary of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, which achieved criticality in 1942.
Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents(newyorker.com)
72 points by prismatic | 45 comments
A New Yorker Photo Booth article by Margaret Talbot on Joseph Szabo's black-and-white photographs of American teenagers, which influenced Sofia Coppola.
Is A.I. Above the Law?(newyorker.com)
32 points by pseudolus | 19 comments
A New Yorker magazine article examining whether artificial intelligence systems and the companies building them escape legal accountability.
The Curious Power of Punctuation(newyorker.com)
39 points by pepys | 12 comments
A New Yorker critical essay by Louis Menand on the history of punctuation and how it shapes reading, including what changes when machines write sentences.
Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit(newyorker.com)
503 points by pseudolus | 386 comments
New Yorker essay examining Flock, the company with 130,000 surveillance cameras across U.S. streets, and its framing of privacy as a trade-off for safety.
Coyote v. Acme (1990)(newyorker.com)
176 points by ChrisArchitect | 86 comments
The Mystery of Dark Oxygen(newyorker.com)
45 points by rbanffy | 13 comments
Why Is Europe Burning?(newyorker.com)
16 points by littlexsparkee | 6 comments
The Art of Decision-Making (2019)(newyorker.com)
32 points by EndXA | 2 comments
The Voice of Google(newyorker.com)
183 points by littlexsparkee | 95 comments
Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse(newyorker.com)
12 points by petethomas | 3 comments
What Gets Kept(newyorker.com)
64 points by lermontov | 76 comments
Jonathan Swift's Last Joke(newyorker.com)
36 points by samizdis | 7 comments
New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming(newyorker.com)
432 points by XzetaU8 | 255 comments
New Yorker essay by Shayla Love on research showing people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming, and whether we should learn in sleep.
New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy(newyorker.com)
102 points by Geekette | 56 comments
Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?(newyorker.com)
1871 points by adrianhon | 763 comments
New Yorker investigative feature by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz examining doubts about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's trustworthiness, using interviews and documents.
A man who broke into jail(newyorker.com)
108 points by fortran77 | 51 comments
Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?(newyorker.com)
43 points by adrianhon | 53 comments
Becoming a Centenarian(newyorker.com)
44 points by mrjaeger | 3 comments
How Willie Nelson sees America(newyorker.com)
45 points by NaOH | 1 comments
The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized(newyorker.com)
464 points by thm | 64 comments
New Yorker press-room announcement that the magazine's entire historical archive has been fully digitized.
How to Leave the USA(newyorker.com)
19 points by rbanffy | 6 comments
The Undermining of the CDC(newyorker.com)
70 points by bookofjoe | 68 comments
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking(newyorker.com)
230 points by ascertain | 789 comments
ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon(newyorker.com)
171 points by fortran77 | 79 comments
The Sagrada Família takes its final shape(newyorker.com)
349 points by pseudolus | 185 comments
A New Yorker magazine article on the Sagrada Família nearing completion and whether Gaudí's basilica is a masterpiece or kitsch.
A24's Empire of Auteurs(newyorker.com)
70 points by prismatic | 36 comments
The Open-Office Trap (2014)(newyorker.com)
46 points by cebert | 37 comments
Hiroshima (1946)(newyorker.com)
101 points by pseudolus | 200 comments
We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness(newyorker.com)
474 points by defo10 | 952 comments
New Yorker magazine essay arguing that AI companions may soon ease loneliness and examining what people might lose if they do.
Remembrance of Scents Past(newyorker.com)
13 points by prismatic | 1 comments
What's happening to reading?(newyorker.com)
160 points by Kaibeezy | 289 comments
How to Save a Dog(newyorker.com)
10 points by fortran77 | 1 comments
