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Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)(slate.com)

311 points by downbad_ 5 months ago | 89 comments

What killed the Florida orange?(slate.com)

151 points by danso 6 months ago | 144 comments

OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)(slate.com)

248 points by surprisetalk 6 months ago | 66 comments

Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health(slate.com)

10 points by RickJWagner 7 months ago | 6 comments

There Is No Comfortable Reading Position(slate.com)

47 points by oumua_don17 9 months ago | 37 comments

How Kids' TV Got Way Too Normal(slate.com)

8 points by throw0101d 1 year ago | 3 comments

The government ate my name(slate.com)

116 points by notok 1 year ago | 138 comments

Jeopardy’s most controversial moment was years in the making(slate.com)

38 points by voisin 1 year ago | 11 comments

The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch(slate.com)

111 points by prawn 1 year ago | 16 comments

No Robot Like Robot (2018)(slate.com)

5 points by Anon84 1 year ago | 0 comments

In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work(slate.com)

447 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 266 comments

A Slate Life essay in which the author recounts witnessing three elite salespeople at work and reflects on sales jobs in America.

Bogotá’s open streets program is the oldest and most successful(slate.com)

39 points by rntn 1 year ago | 6 comments

Hit men aren't what you think(slate.com)

98 points by tzs 1 year ago | 138 comments

Buddhist Retreat: Why I gave up on finding my religion (2003)(slate.com)

28 points by whereistimbo 1 year ago | 38 comments

The One-Eyed Man Is King: How did the monocle become a symbol of wealth? (2012)(slate.com)

21 points by Bluestein 2 years ago | 16 comments

Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)(slate.com)

161 points by dotcoma 2 years ago | 77 comments

Rod McKuen Was the Bestselling Poet in American History. What Happened? (2022)(slate.com)

12 points by onychomys 2 years ago | 1 comments

Cartoon Network's Website Was Deleted. That Should Scare You All(slate.com)

4 points by petethomas 2 years ago | 0 comments

How Diaries Evolved from Lists to Personal Histories(slate.com)

13 points by pepys 2 years ago | 5 comments

The curious history of chain letters (2010)(slate.com)

10 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Teton Pass collapsed in the most economically unequal county in the country(slate.com)

16 points by rntn 2 years ago | 1 comments

The greatest social media site is Craigslist(slate.com)

132 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 73 comments

The Triumph of Counting and Scripting(slate.com)

38 points by viburnum 2 years ago | 6 comments

Adobe Swears It's Not Training Its A.I. On Your Photoshops(slate.com)

20 points by cgtyoder 2 years ago | 12 comments

The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)(slate.com)

47 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 124 comments

Call Your Local Wizard(slate.com)

65 points by drdee 2 years ago | 31 comments

Sam Altman Is Showing Us Who He Really Is(slate.com)

190 points by panarky 2 years ago | 139 comments

The parents who are saying no to "extracurriculars"(slate.com)

25 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 32 comments

The Downfall of DeviantArt(slate.com)

239 points by jfryusef 2 years ago | 174 comments

Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants(slate.com)

40 points by Petiver 2 years ago | 8 comments

What mostly failing to feed our baby taught me(slate.com)

3 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 0 comments

We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong(slate.com)

68 points by _ngm01 2 years ago | 38 comments

What the Gardasil Testing May Have Missed(slate.com)

18 points by hammock 2 years ago | 11 comments

A 7k-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That's Bad News for All of Us(slate.com)

13 points by pulisse 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Worst Possible Way to Be Rejected for a Job(slate.com)

26 points by rntn 2 years ago | 21 comments

TikTok is finally on the decline(slate.com)

51 points by cdme 2 years ago | 37 comments

Step Away From CNBC. If you want to make money, change this channel(slate.com)

3 points by benkan 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Loss of Things I Took for Granted(slate.com)

23 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 40 comments

Margaret Mead's LSD Memo(slate.com)

29 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 5 comments

How Quora died(slate.com)

286 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 328 comments

American Ornithological Society changing the names of birds named after people(slate.com)

20 points by crescit_eundo 2 years ago | 21 comments

What it was like to be the subject of a longitudinal study (2023)(slate.com)

47 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 18 comments

My 30-Year Quitting Addiction(slate.com)

19 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 35 comments

A group of radical artists smuggled political messages into Melrose Place(slate.com)

11 points by kristianp 2 years ago | 5 comments

The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying(slate.com)

116 points by BitPolice 2 years ago | 36 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going to Testify(slate.com)

9 points by RickJWagner 3 years ago | 4 comments

The Decades-Long Travesty That Made Millions of Americans Mistrust Their Schools(slate.com)

22 points by rntn 3 years ago | 38 comments

The Death of the Internet as a Haven for People with Autism(slate.com)

28 points by rntn 3 years ago | 15 comments

Lines of code that changed everything (2019)(slate.com)

66 points by pedrodelfino 3 years ago | 18 comments

If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose(slate.com)

63 points by lamontcg 3 years ago | 51 comments

The Crazily Unconstitutional New Laws Trying to Criminalize Filming Cops(slate.com)

124 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 93 comments

Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002(slate.com)

71 points by prawn 3 years ago | 76 comments

Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)(slate.com)

471 points by pmoriarty 3 years ago | 641 comments

A 2012 Slate article by Tom Scocca arguing that recipe writers routinely understate how long it takes to caramelize onions.

Is Meta having growing pains or in a death spiral?(slate.com)

27 points by redbell 3 years ago | 36 comments

If a PR Says “Artificial Intelligence,” There’s a Good Chance It’s Meaningless(slate.com)

92 points by giuliomagnifico 3 years ago | 45 comments

More Americans are using fake license plates(slate.com)

34 points by SirLJ 3 years ago | 60 comments

Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens(slate.com)

1159 points by NN88 3 years ago | 826 comments

Slate article on automakers like VW, Porsche, Nissan and Hyundai bringing back physical buttons as drivers reject touchscreen controls.

Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to review Polish-Jewish history during WWII(slate.com)

51 points by kurtreed 3 years ago | 26 comments