| 1 | Feb 7, '25 | Paying taxes hits different when you see just how many places it gets blown for nothing. $100 million here, $500 million there, $5 billion over there, $300 million there. People wo | 198× | 30.2M | 57k | 7.6k | 1.8k |
| 2 | Nov 27, '24 | The entirety of the Joe Rogan <> Marc Andreeseen podcast is fascinating, but please, please listen to this part. The abuse of power within unaccountable (and arguably unconst | 164× | 25M | 47k | 15k | 19k |
| 3 | Feb 6, '25 | Remember how Elon bought Twitter and totally destroyed the company through his own hubris? (At least that’s what I read). Turns out it’s not only profitable, but profit has doubled | 114× | 17.3M | 18k | 2k | 1.7k |
| 4 | Sep 1, '24 | So the “Chase unlimited money glitch” that went viral on TikTok was: * Writing yourself a giant check * Mobile depositing that check * Going to an ATM to withdraw cash before the c | 88× | 13.4M | 111k | 7.1k | 7.6k |
| 5 | Jul 12, '25 | The likelihood that he’s dead is just really, really high | 71.6× | 10.9M | 134k | 2.8k | 4.9k |
| 6 | Jul 24, '24 | So in a strange turn of events it turns out that, despite having a funny-looking swing, Trump is indeed a very, very good golfer. Definitely capable of winning club tournaments and | 69.7× | 10.6M | 35k | 1.5k | 2.4k |
| 7 | Aug 18, '24 | This is one of my favorite threads on X. People who don’t lift dismissively mocking average people for not being able to curl 50kg (110 pounds). And jacked gym bros explaining how | 66.5× | 10.1M | 56k | 2.4k | 5.6k |
| 8 | Apr 24, '24 | It’s difficult to describe how insane a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains is. Not a one-time 25% hit. It’s compounding, annually taking 25% of every dollar of potential increase | 60.8× | 9.2M | 20k | 3.8k | 1.7k |
| 9 | Jul 2, '23 | A snail travels around 1mm/s. That’s 31.54 km/yr (19.6 miles/yr) assuming it never rests. It would take 126 years to travel from LA to NYC (ignoring sleep/rest and geography). Comm | 55.9× | 8.5M | 16k | 1k | 313 |
| 10 | Jul 13, '23 | New mortgage math is brutal. Say you buy a $1m house with $200k down at a 7% rate ($800k mortgage). Over the first three years you pay $193k ($5,322/mo.) After those $193k of payme | 50.9× | 7.7M | 28k | 3.4k | 3.1k |
| 11 | Mar 5, '25 | It feels like we've reached ultimate laptop design. Where can Apple possibly go beyond this? There's nothing left. It's a screen, trackpad, and keyboard. Ridiculous performance, 18 | 44.2× | 6.7M | 15k | 307 | 1.8k |
| 12 | May 13, '24 | Am I crazy or are real-time translation and Duolingo… not at all competing products? | 44× | 6.7M | 60k | 1.6k | 996 |
| 13 | Mar 28, '24 | Everyone is ripping on this girl for feeling entitled to a more impressive job just because of her degrees. But some of the responsibility should be shared by the people who told h | 43.3× | 6.6M | 34k | 1.9k | 3k |
| 14 | May 7, '23 | Yahoo bought a platform that was 90% porn for $1.1 Billion and subsequently banned the porn. Really wild decision making. | 37.8× | 5.7M | 41k | 4.1k | 855 |
| 15 | Dec 1, '23 | This is what the ultimate male friendship looks like | 36.2× | 5.5M | 40k | 1.7k | 2.5k |
| 16 | Sep 23, '24 | John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read | 35.6× | 5.4M | 75k | 6.9k | 9.9k |
| 17 | Apr 16, '24 | To rent Dune 2 is $24.99. To buy Dune 2 is $29.99. 10/10 pricing strategy. Congratulations to all involved. | 35.4× | 5.4M | 36k | 720 | 653 |
| 18 | Mar 25, '24 | This happens all the time. Universities very literally are not training you for a job as a software engineer. They are training you in the academic field of the science of computin | 34.6× | 5.3M | 35k | 2.2k | 5.5k |
| 19 | Jul 16, '23 | Incredible | 31.3× | 4.8M | 28k | 1.2k | 1k |
| 20 | Sep 12, '24 | Wife: “What did your teacher remember about September 11th?” Nine-year-old: “She was only four then, she doesn’t remember it at all.” | 31× | 4.7M | 123k | 2.6k | 2.5k |
| 21 | Jul 16, '24 | Forget politics, this is hard to watch on a purely human level. Let this poor guy rest. | 30.1× | 4.6M | 15k | 1.8k | 4.7k |
| 22 | Jul 11, '23 | By the time a man is 40 he must choose an intellectual hobby. These are the only options: 1. World War II 2. Genghis Kahn 3. Greeks/Romans 4. Napoleon 5. Revolutionary + Civil War | 30× | 4.6M | 24k | 1.5k | 1.9k |
| 23 | Jul 16, '23 | Tried to grab a Starlink for a family camping trip but was too short notice to have it shipped on time. Look on Facebook marketplace and people are *renting them out* for $25-30/da | 29.5× | 4.5M | 14k | 648 | 2.2k |
| 24 | Mar 8, '25 | Without even looking it up I’m fairly certain that the national parks don’t bring in $55 Billion in revenue | 29.2× | 4.4M | 36k | 756 | 592 |
| 25 | Jan 21, '23 | “I’m going to quit tech and go work on a farm” is really compelling if you don’t know what working on a farm is like | 23.7× | 3.6M | 17k | 739 | 162 |
| 26 | Dec 9, '23 | Hahahahaha | 22.8× | 3.5M | 17k | 423 | 462 |
| 27 | Jan 10, '25 | Do we have to pretend like a murdered out black nearly silent nearly indestructible car that goes 0-60 in 2.6 seconds isn’t cool? | 21.7× | 3.3M | 47k | 1.1k | 1.1k |
| 28 | Mar 4, '23 | Joe Rogan: “My dad was abusive and manipulative.” Joe Rogan’s dad: “That’s not true! I could beat you up right now. Also, I will reveal negative things about you unless you do what | 20.9× | 3.2M | 23k | 1.1k | 1.6k |
| 29 | Jun 6, '25 | Tomorrow wraps up the first 5 months of my kids attending the school where all of the learning is powered by AI (and no teachers). I get asked almost every day what the experience | 19.9× | 3M | 16k | 1.5k | 13k |
| 30 | May 13, '24 | Six-year-old: “Dad, do you have $100?” Me: “…Yes.” Six-year-old: “That means between your $100 and my $4 we can buy a water slide!” | 19.9× | 3M | 44k | 656 | 401 |
| 31 | Apr 2, '23 | Community Notes my favorite Twitter feature in a long time. I mean, how do you get such very basic details wrong? And now if you do it’s there for all to see. | 19.2× | 2.9M | 17k | 1.3k | 93 |
| 32 | Sep 12, '25 | So Charlie Kirk’s murderer was a middle class 4.0 student from southern Utah who grew up hunting and whose dad worked in the Sheriff office. On full ride at Utah State for academic | 19× | 2.9M | 35k | 1.3k | 2k |
| 33 | Aug 10, '24 | OK stupid question. TSA limits liquids, gels and aerosols that passengers can bring through airport security. But there’s no requirement around items being room temperature. What i | 17.8× | 2.7M | 21k | 175 | 839 |
| 34 | Apr 20, '24 | This is one of the craziest videos I’ve ever seen. Harry Mack is incredible. | 17.7× | 2.7M | 15k | 2.3k | 8.2k |
| 35 | Oct 30, '23 | For real though can I hire this courtroom portrait artist | 17.6× | 2.7M | 22k | 2.2k | 447 |
| 36 | Dec 7, '23 | Breaking Bad | 16.9× | 2.6M | 14k | 391 | 432 |
| 37 | Jun 24, '25 | I don’t say this lightly: Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for New York City to drive down food prices by having the city run its own grocery stores is the most economically delusional th | 16.8× | 2.6M | 19k | 1.8k | 1.2k |
| 38 | Nov 25, '23 | “Nah I don’t even use that social network anymore.” “Why?” “IBM and Comcast stopped posting there.” | 15.1× | 2.3M | 22k | 1k | 277 |
| 39 | Jul 25, '25 | Calling the Tea hack a "hack" is honestly a stretch. They put everything in a publicly accessible DB. Not in the "they didn't encrypt" sense, in the "literally publicly accessible | 14.4× | 2.2M | 36k | 2.1k | 4.2k |
| 40 | Feb 5, '25 | You people are overreacting. It’s not like taxpayers are sending $8.1 million/year to Politico. Politico has a premium tier that costs an average of $34,000/year and federal agenci | 14.3× | 2.2M | 27k | 2.6k | 1.9k |
| 41 | Mar 13, '25 | I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for when the Google team realized, “You know what, if you look at the cumulative number of miles of roads on the planet… we could actuall | 14.3× | 2.2M | 58k | 1.5k | 2.2k |
| 42 | Oct 20, '24 | Wait I thought Trump just pulled up at a random McDonald’s and they put him on the payroll for a few hours as a fry cook. You mean to tell me this was an organized event? | 13.5× | 2.1M | 34k | 1.2k | 366 |
| 43 | Jan 29, '24 | This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever read. First, the FAA gave secret code words to students in the Black Caucus of Federal Aviation Employees to put in their resume that w | 13.2× | 2M | 18k | 5.1k | 3.5k |
| 44 | Apr 24, '25 | I took out $73,280 in student loans and made interest-only payments like clockwork for 15 years. Now they’re telling me I somehow still owe $73,280? How is that possible? | 12.6× | 1.9M | 17k | 445 | 530 |
| 45 | Dec 12, '23 | It’s still absolutely wild to me that people are like, “OK I have $100 million dollars I’m going to donate. I know what I’ll do! I’ll make Harvard’s endowment grow from $52.3 Billi | 12.4× | 1.9M | 15k | 649 | 270 |
| 46 | Dec 23, '24 | My dad is in the hospital and has figured out that whenever they run labs it sends the results to the patient portal on his app. He takes the results, plugs them into ChatGPT, and | 12× | 1.8M | 24k | 1.3k | 2.4k |
| 47 | Jan 30, '25 | Yes it was a noble cause, but I still think it's totally fair to question whether US taxpayers should be required to spend $45 million to provide full-ride scholarships to 135 Burm | 11.7× | 1.8M | 26k | 1.6k | 726 |
| 48 | Jan 2, '25 | Christmas gift from my grandma this year: A 380-page, full-color cookbook with all of her favorite recipes she’s collected over the past 70+ years. She spent the past few years typ | 11.6× | 1.8M | 73k | 2.9k | 4.2k |
| 49 | Oct 11, '25 | Most convincing argument for private schools I’ve ever read | 11.2× | 1.7M | 19k | 1.5k | 1.7k |
| 50 | Mar 24, '25 | Was inevitable | 11× | 1.7M | 18k | 1.5k | 4.6k |
| 51 | Jul 9, '24 | Discussing with my wife whether avocados weren’t really a thing when we were kids or if we were just poor and didn’t know about them | 10.8× | 1.6M | 17k | 398 | 383 |
| 52 | Mar 28, '25 | (There’s no world where he hires an artist to do this. The only reason people are doing it at all is because it’s free.) | 10.8× | 1.6M | 43k | 926 | 1.5k |
| 53 | Jul 15, '23 | View post on X | 10.3× | 1.6M | 17k | 2.3k | 759 |
| 54 | Oct 18, '25 | “We dropped the whole ‘no kings’ theme of the protest so as to not upset the monarchy” is so unbelievably funny | 10.3× | 1.6M | 41k | 4.2k | 2.3k |
| 55 | Jun 3, '24 | There are literally machines that do your laundry and wash your dishes for you. What you call “doing laundry” is putting clothes into and taking them out of that machine. | 10.1× | 1.5M | 19k | 690 | 725 |
| 56 | Aug 18, '24 | How did Americans become so economically illiterate that we consider any profit to be “price gouging?” Kroger literally has 1.88% net margin. GTFO. These are the companies that thi | 10.1× | 1.5M | 15k | 1.4k | 434 |
| 57 | Apr 15, '25 | If you opened a gym in an airport you could charge $50/hour | 9.9× | 1.5M | 17k | 212 | 580 |
| 58 | Dec 7, '24 | From the now-declassified 1954 CIA manual on assassination, I can’t stop thinking about this line: “Obviously, successful secret assassinations are not recorded as assassination at | 9.3× | 1.4M | 38k | 1.9k | 4.5k |
| 59 | Sep 4, '24 | giving your kids an unfair advantage in life is part of the point | 9.0× | 1.4M | 32k | 1.3k | 638 |
| 60 | Jun 10, '25 | I cannot believe they shipped this | 9.0× | 1.4M | 15k | 430 | 440 |
| 61 | Mar 29, '24 | Six-year-old: “Dad why do you have to go to work?” Me: “If I didn’t go to work who would buy your transformers?” Six-year-old: “Dad the money for transformers doesn’t come from you | 8.6× | 1.3M | 45k | 1k | 496 |
| 62 | Apr 9, '24 | A random thing someone told me once that I now think about constantly: If you feel like you hate everyone, eat. If you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. If you feel like you hat | 8.4× | 1.3M | 15k | 2.2k | 6.8k |
| 63 | Mar 15, '25 | Seeing the people who dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into EVs and EV infrastructure (because of climate change) sell their Teslas for gas-powered SUVs to spite Musk is hila | 8.2× | 1.2M | 25k | 2.1k | 503 |
| 64 | Mar 22, '25 | How have the carriers not solved this? | 7.6× | 1.1M | 13k | 301 | 226 |
| 65 | Mar 10, '25 | “Why do police stop me from breaking things when I disagree with people booooooooo” | 7.3× | 1.1M | 40k | 1.5k | 552 |
| 66 | Sep 29, '25 | I know it feels good to pretend like this is true, but actually the richest 1% of the richest 1% don’t drive a Toyota Camry | 7.2× | 1.1M | 15k | 229 | 492 |
| 67 | Jul 2, '25 | Must suck being an unemployed software engineer and realizing that Soham Parekh has been hired 79 times in the past 4 years | 7.2× | 1.1M | 25k | 1.3k | 1.2k |
| 68 | Feb 17, '25 | Stop pretending like 1% of all federal spending is a small amount. $38 Billion is a HUGE amount of money. | 7.1× | 1.1M | 24k | 1.1k | 311 |
| 69 | Nov 11, '23 | You have to admit it's pretty funny that San Francisco will clean itself up practically overnight when an important Communist comes to visit | 7.1× | 1.1M | 17k | 2.7k | 247 |
| 70 | Jun 14, '24 | Fentanyl | 6.8× | 1M | 21k | 518 | 86 |
| 71 | Aug 12, '25 | To be fair some companies spend 100x that to learn the same lesson | 5.8× | 877k | 13k | 407 | 2.2k |
| 72 | Nov 19, '24 | Wow, I love the new logo design. So modern, so sleek. | 5.2× | 791k | 20k | 226 | 237 |
| 73 | Feb 3, '25 | We’ve gotta stop pretending like spending $47 Billion doesn’t matter because we spend even more money elsewhere. That’s a gargantuan amount of money. | 5.0× | 767k | 30k | 2.1k | 343 |
| 74 | Aug 12, '24 | Absolutely insane. “Since we don’t like what Elon Musk is doing at X… maybe we can find away to arrest him? We can change the laws if necessary.” Imagine suggesting this and thinki | 4.8× | 725k | 22k | 5k | 852 |
| 75 | Aug 27, '24 | By far the most annoying part of TSA is that the rules are different at every airport and they will berate you for not knowing what the rules are | 4.6× | 698k | 14k | 493 | 157 |
| 76 | Oct 16, '24 | NO DONT RUIN THE UNINHABITABLE EMPTY PLANET | 4.6× | 695k | 25k | 705 | 363 |
| 77 | Feb 10, '21 | Programmers can literally just sit down at a computer and create value for people out of thin air | 4.6× | 0 | 65k | 4.6k | 783 |
| 78 | Sep 10, '22 | “The world is not driven by greed, it's drive by envy.” — Charlie Munger | 4.0× | 0 | 43k | 7.4k | 3.7k |
| 79 | Dec 21, '24 | Every day the internet shows me something crazier than I previously thought possible | 3.9× | 585k | 13k | 1.3k | 3.2k |
| 80 | Dec 15, '22 | I was very very sad when I learned the Domino’s pizza tracker is entirely fake (based solely on time since order), but I have to commend whatever engineer suggested doing that inst | 3.8× | 0 | 56k | 2.2k | 1.4k |
| 81 | Sep 11, '25 | There’s a new political divide forming: If you celebrate when an innocent person whose political views differ from you is assassinated you’re gone. Don’t care what that person’s po | ⚡ 2.9× | 43.2M | 37k | 4k | 1.3k |
| 82 | Sep 1, '24 | It seems like for every type of fraud that exists there’s a TikTok influencer who just discovered it and thinks it’s foolproof | 2.9× | 440k | 13k | 217 | 102 |
| 83 | Jul 9, '24 | "Sorry, Stalin, I'm gonna do whatever I want; I don't have a boss!" | 2.9× | 434k | 13k | 452 | 210 |
| 84 | Nov 15, '24 | (He began disagreeing with you) | 2.7× | 414k | 24k | 832 | 339 |
| 85 | Jun 28, '24 | The Supreme Court's Chevron ruling may be most impactful things to happen to startups in a long time, in ways that people don't realize. A thread: | ⚡ 2.5× | 27.4M | 22k | 3.4k | 6.2k |
| 86 | Nov 8, '24 | Kids 50 years from now will 100% assume “trumped up charges” is a phrase that came from Donald Trump’s conviction | 2.5× | 380k | 19k | 924 | 471 |
| 87 | Aug 9, '20 | The default math class in high school should be Statistics instead of Calculus | 2.1× | 0 | 28k | 2.7k | 243 |
| 88 | Sep 26, '25 | Engineers! We want to: Fly you to Austin Give you an apartment Clean your room Do your laundry Feed you 3x/day Help you master building with AI And give you a $200k+ job. You pay n | 2.1× | 325k | 14k | 727 | 7k |
| 89 | Apr 9, '22 | Honestly surprised we’re not hearing a little more about the whole, “China has locked down a city of 28.5 million people and they’re starting to go hungry” thing | 2.1× | 0 | 26k | 4.5k | 165 |
| 90 | Feb 12, '25 | $40 Billion is enough to cure world hunger if you take it from billionaires, and completely inconsequential if you take it from the federal budget. Youth in the youngest congresswo | ⚡ 2.0× | 29.9M | 24k | 2.7k | 1.7k |
| 91 | Oct 18, '23 | I don’t know who is telling these kids that a generic degree is equivalent to experience or makes you qualified for high-paying roles, but it simply does not | ⚡ 1.9× | 20M | 16k | 1.2k | 2.7k |
| 92 | Sep 5, '21 | What a year of staying off Twitter does to you | 1.9× | 0 | 27k | 2.1k | 391 |
| 93 | Jul 1, '24 | @Kairon404 Because he’d be arrested if he tried to build 100 houses | 1.8× | 266k | 14k | 75 | 34 |
| 94 | Jul 15, '24 | You really can just straight up ignore all mainstream media. You don’t need to watch the news or read the newspaper. You can just get your information directly from random people o | ⚡ 1.4× | 21.8M | 17k | 1.8k | 328 |
| 95 | Nov 18, '22 | People are saying twitter is going to go down as if the way servers stay up is a bunch of infra engineers sitting in the back room pedaling stationary bikes to power the racks | 1.3× | 0 | 18k | 1.4k | 185 |
| 96 | Nov 18, '22 | If Twitter actually went from 7,500 people to ~900 people, And you assume a $200k/person/yr cost, Headcount costs at Twitter just went from $1.5 Billion/yr to $180 Million/yr. | 1.2× | 0 | 17k | 996 | 213 |
| 97 | Dec 14, '21 | How you feel about Elon Musk is how you feel about yourself | 1.2× | 0 | 15k | 741 | 169 |
| 98 | Nov 23, '22 | Business Insider openly admitting that they don’t care (or check) whether what they’re publishing is true or not because they said “reportedly” in the headline | 1.1× | 0 | 13k | 1.6k | 399 |
| 99 | Oct 28, '25 | Kids today won’t believe it but there was a time when Wired published the most fascinating tech deep dives you could find | ⚡ 1.1× | 16.2M | 14k | 769 | 435 |
| 100 | Oct 16 | AI backlash is coming. So many people we see think they are AI gods aren't using it well at all, just wasting huge amounts of money without producing much value. The ROI won't be t | 0.1× | 9.7k | 161 | 5 | 23 |
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