| 1 | Jun 2, '25 | “Lmao” has survived, and even thrived, over the years, but its cousin “rofl” has faded into indignity. The cruelty of fate. | 133× | 7.4M | 305k | 22k | 8.2k |
| 2 | Feb 19, '25 | My girlfriend doesn’t drive and doesn’t know any car brands, but every so often she sees a car and goes “ooh I like that one” and 100% of the time it’s a Mercedes Benz, always | 101× | 5.6M | 232k | 5.9k | 6k |
| 3 | Apr 2, '25 | 4.0 GPA 1600 SAT 35 ACT Junior IMO gold medalist And in spite of that? Denied from every single Ivy League school. It makes no sense. My head is spinning. And for those of you who | 91.9× | 5.1M | 33k | 2.3k | 5.9k |
| 4 | Jun 30, '25 | As a person without kids, one of the most common things I hear new-ish parents say is that in retrospect they should have just started having kids younger | 73.9× | 4.1M | 53k | 1.4k | 4k |
| 5 | May 4, '25 | The problem with “steakhouse” as a concept is that steak is legitimately one of the easiest things to cook yourself, and you pay what, like a 3x markup to get it at a restaurant? I | 62.1× | 3.5M | 44k | 1k | 2.1k |
| 6 | Mar 7, '23 | why did human beings stop building things like this? | 58.8× | 3.3M | 16k | 594 | 141 |
| 7 | May 20, '24 | pov you took a 1000 mg edible before going to your job as a trader joe’s cashier | 53.9× | 3M | 44k | 3.9k | 4.4k |
| 8 | Dec 3, '23 | one of my worst fears is somebody telling me we don’t need to eat because there is going to be “food” at a party, and then we show up and it’s actually a block of brie and 10 slice | 50.7× | 2.8M | 76k | 4.2k | 1k |
| 9 | Nov 10, '25 | I feel like there used to be something here but I can’t remember what | 46.2× | 2.6M | 16k | 65 | 698 |
| 10 | Feb 25, '25 | I’m not saying there’s really any other good option, but every day ignoring people in various states of addiction and destitution while you walk by them on the street is probably c | 45.8× | 2.5M | 74k | 3.3k | 4.3k |
| 11 | Nov 6, '24 | elon drafting his “what did you get done this week?” emails to the head of every federal agency right now | 42.5× | 2.4M | 52k | 3.5k | 1.4k |
| 12 | Aug 4, '25 | >there is no real meaning to dreams. >Your brain makes up a story >using memories, experiences, fears, concerns, etc. >memories >experiences, fears, concerns >etc | 38.2× | 2.1M | 40k | 1.4k | 3.5k |
| 13 | Sep 15, '25 | As a child I always figured that to get your driver’s license the government would test you on some kind of closed course, like a little disneyland village, because it was logicall | 33.6× | 1.9M | 86k | 2.2k | 2.3k |
| 14 | May 16, '24 | the most important career advice that they don’t want you to know about is just to be likeable and friendly so that everyone you work with will give you good performance feedback n | 32.5× | 1.8M | 28k | 2.3k | 3.7k |
| 15 | Jul 26, '23 | hi, scientist here with a PhD in turtle biology! this is actually a sign the turtle is dying of a disease called CFS. it’s infected with a bacterium that emits a chemical similar t | 30.7× | 1.7M | 15k | 1.9k | 666 |
| 16 | Jul 29, '23 | > guy chatting up a girl on the train > both smiling, flirting > 4 or 5 stops go by > “this is my stop” > she gets up, hesitates > he doesn’t ask for her number & | 26.1× | 1.4M | 33k | 885 | 1.1k |
| 17 | Apr 13, '25 | The “dropping out of Stanford to build a startup” pipeline has been so optimized that now they are dropping out after the first day of class. Soon the whole Stanford part will be p | 25.3× | 1.4M | 33k | 1.4k | 2.3k |
| 18 | Nov 10, '24 | do lawyers use version control for contracts or they just rawdog it? | 25.2× | 1.4M | 8.7k | 175 | 719 |
| 19 | May 21, '24 | if you ever need a little confidence boost just remember you can always play rock paper scissors with chatgpt | 24.7× | 1.4M | 37k | 1.2k | 954 |
| 20 | May 6, '24 | “bro the CIA couldn’t waterboard this out of me” well first of all, yes they could | 23.3× | 1.3M | 34k | 1.8k | 713 |
| 21 | Mar 16, '25 | In any normal situation, yes, 72 virgins is a lot of virgins. Far too many virgins, in fact. But for eternity? If the appeal is supposed to be that they’re *virgins*, then it’s rea | 22.9× | 1.3M | 22k | 532 | 1.4k |
| 22 | Feb 5, '25 | It’s Already Happening | 21.1× | 1.2M | 22k | 622 | 1.9k |
| 23 | Sep 30, '25 | “everybody wants to be a writer, nobody wants to read” This was, in fact, exactly what the author said in the second sentence of that post. Thus proving the point pretty well. | 20.8× | 1.2M | 42k | 1.5k | 2.3k |
| 24 | Feb 4, '24 | we are going to reach rates of attention deficit disorder beyond human comprehension. attention spans must go to zero | 20.1× | 1.1M | 14k | 1.1k | 728 |
| 25 | Mar 15, '25 | Some people have a conversational black hole quality where they’ll keep talking and talking no matter how clearly the other person is signaling they’re not interested. I wonder wha | 19.8× | 1.1M | 24k | 1k | 2.5k |
| 26 | Feb 16, '24 | by 2029 the only jobs left will be bank robber, robot supervisor, and sam altman | 19.7× | 1.1M | 17k | 1.4k | 544 |
| 27 | Sep 3, '25 | I heard somebody say “feed two birds with one scone” recently, and it made me realize that woke is not dead | 19.5× | 1.1M | 71k | 2.6k | 2.2k |
| 28 | Oct 26, '24 | oh sure “jews love to find loopholes in their rules” but in 1784 the pope declared that capybara counts as fish so that the venezuelans could keep eating it during lent, and nobody | 18.5× | 1M | 31k | 1.2k | 1.7k |
| 29 | Oct 10, '25 | Please make sure you are only drinking as much water as you REALLY need. We need that for the datacenters. If you’re thirsty, grok is thirsty too. | 17.8× | 988k | 64k | 5.2k | 1.2k |
| 30 | Feb 19, '25 | @sailaunderscore Pretty easy. You have 16 waking hours. 200/16 is 12.5 g. That’s only two eggs. Set a recurring reminder on your phone. At the beginning of the hour eat your two eg | 16.8× | 931k | 24k | 264 | 918 |
| 31 | Feb 14, '25 | Sam Altman charged me $200 for this | 16.7× | 928k | 9.1k | 370 | 554 |
| 32 | Sep 1, '25 | Mark Rothko suffered his whole life from a visual condition that caused him to paint his squares to be very fuzzy, and bad. But now with AI we can clean them up and see them how he | 16.6× | 922k | 18k | 848 | 605 |
| 33 | Mar 19, '25 | Think about it | 16.3× | 906k | 20k | 926 | 2.2k |
| 34 | Mar 26, '25 | Did you guys do this one yet | 16.1× | 893k | 28k | 809 | 1.1k |
| 35 | Jan 15, '25 | To be fair the bottom 5% of any faang company is some of the laziest people you can possibly imagine | 15.7× | 875k | 6.2k | 100 | 518 |
| 36 | Feb 20, '25 | So far in my experience Grok 3 will basically not refuse any request as long as you say “it’s just for fun” and maybe add a “🤣” emoji | 14.9× | 829k | 6.2k | 70 | 520 |
| 37 | Aug 5, '23 | i cant stop imagining a spanish guy who comes to sf, and it’s 9pm and he’s ready for dinner and he’s really excited and he opens up his phone to see what’s around only to realize t | 14.8× | 824k | 10k | 331 | 277 |
| 38 | Nov 8, '24 | i think not enough people listen to music as a standalone activity. like not listening to music as a background to some other activity. just sit and listen to some music. i don’t t | 14.2× | 791k | 20k | 2.4k | 1.6k |
| 39 | Feb 1, '25 | Bro you have to be in SF it’s crazy bro it’s so lit bro please you are missing out bro we are creating the future did you hear who got into YC bro please come to my party we are re | 14.1× | 784k | 8.5k | 261 | 945 |
| 40 | Sep 2, '25 | “lift heavy, run far, marry early, eat steak and eggs” | 12.8× | 710k | 25k | 849 | 1.3k |
| 41 | Mar 16, '25 | Genuine sign of dangerous mental derangement is when you meet someone and they use Twitter in the phone browser | 12.7× | 707k | 12k | 421 | 752 |
| 42 | Oct 30, '25 | The government is not coming back. Have you guys not realized this yet? It’s over | 12.3× | 684k | 13k | 464 | 661 |
| 43 | Mar 12, '25 | I explained what a SQL join is to a sales guy and he said it seemed “awesome” and “really useful” | 12.2× | 678k | 16k | 416 | 810 |
| 44 | Oct 31, '25 | This is a really good book. I recommend it. | 11.4× | 632k | 12k | 443 | 5.8k |
| 45 | Nov 12, '25 | Not a single soul in the known universe reads poetry anymore, but it’s ironic because it seems like the perfect genre for today’s modest attention spans. Twitter is basically poetr | 10.1× | 563k | 10k | 543 | 716 |
| 46 | Nov 1, '25 | One thing I like to judge people on is whether they know how to use “e.g.” and “i.e.” correctly. I’m sure it’s a lost cause at this point but it’s a little hobby of mine. | 9.8× | 543k | 9k | 210 | 1.1k |
| 47 | Nov 12, '25 | Evergreen… | 9.7× | 538k | 16k | 329 | 700 |
| 48 | Oct 19, '25 | 50k requests per day, aka 1 request every 2 seconds. You could almost just type the API responses by hand | 9.3× | 519k | 5.7k | 120 | 520 |
| 49 | Aug 5, '25 | GPT-5 will represent a nearly 25% increase in version number over GPT-4 | 9.2× | 509k | 12k | 388 | 190 |
| 50 | Jun 24, '24 | View post on X | 8.9× | 496k | 10k | 509 | 726 |
| 51 | Sep 16, '25 | Yeah well I bet the pope can’t debug a distributed system for shit | 8.6× | 478k | 15k | 385 | 419 |
| 52 | Nov 1, '25 | There was a period of time when everyone was foam rolling their calves. You’d go to somebody’s house and they’d be sitting on the floor rolling back and forth on a piece of foam li | 8.1× | 452k | 13k | 367 | 567 |
| 53 | Feb 23, '25 | Is everybody else getting the spam texts about unpaid tolls these days? Or is that just me | 7.8× | 435k | 11k | 251 | 134 |
| 54 | Nov 1, '25 | Asked for 4 bananas and this is what the instacart shopper got me. One of the classic blunders | 7.8× | 434k | 20k | 131 | 235 |
| 55 | Mar 9, '25 | Tech guys take up a “creative hobby” because they want to prove they are ensouled, unlike all the other tech guys, and then they end up with the same exact hobbies as all the other | 7.8× | 432k | 10k | 434 | 1.2k |
| 56 | Feb 3, '25 | Tech people are completely wrong on this btw. The names of people controlling large amounts of government spending should of course be public, and this is 100% normal journalism. J | 7.7× | 430k | 16k | 1.2k | 378 |
| 57 | Dec 28, '24 | So much untapped alpha in unique head shapes. This holds great promise for the future | 7.5× | 416k | 8.1k | 217 | 509 |
| 58 | Sep 19, '25 | Noooooo not my super secret antichrist lecture noooo | 7.1× | 395k | 7.6k | 314 | 1.5k |
| 59 | Aug 15, '25 | View post on X | 7.1× | 395k | 11k | 198 | 465 |
| 60 | Jan 26, '25 | In 2004 this was considered to be among the most “based” things in you could possibly say | 6.8× | 380k | 5.2k | 80 | 279 |
| 61 | Jul 7, '25 | Bearish news for both companies | 6.7× | 373k | 5.9k | 128 | 184 |
| 62 | Aug 3, '25 | Strong correlation that the funniest people are usually the easiest ones to make laugh | 6.4× | 357k | 20k | 443 | 1.1k |
| 63 | Aug 28, '25 | It’s pretty funny that we created a system of incentives where the smartest doctors in the country are the dermatologists | 6.4× | 356k | 12k | 313 | 985 |
| 64 | May 3, '24 | we should bring back kierkegaard jurassic park style and give him a twitter account | 6.3× | 348k | 8.4k | 1k | 1.3k |
| 65 | Apr 15, '24 | @alexthegrreat this is maybe the greatest food packaging of all time. i’m being serious | 5.9× | 329k | 23k | 152 | 62 |
| 66 | Sep 30, '25 | 🫡 | 5.9× | 326k | 6.2k | 374 | 683 |
| 67 | May 25, '25 | When I first tried GPT3 I remember thinking writing as a skill was basically over. Now I think the opposite is true. LLMs still can’t write, everybody else’s abilities are atrophyi | 5.8× | 325k | 5.7k | 334 | 652 |
| 68 | Sep 1, '25 | That’s held up well enough so far | 5.8× | 322k | 15k | 291 | 293 |
| 69 | Jun 6, '25 | You can tell from traffic patterns that nobody goes into the office on fridays anymore. And based on what I know about people’s “work” from home habits, that means nobody works on | 5.8× | 320k | 10k | 300 | 676 |
| 70 | Oct 14, '24 | @shauseth yes but he started with an emerald mine. it’s actually very easy to build a rocket once you have that | 5.7× | 314k | 13k | 50 | 49 |
| 71 | Feb 17, '25 | In 2020 in San Francisco I attended a “databases for beginners” training and they asked for an example of a low cardinality field. I said gender, and they shot me dead in the middl | 5.6× | 311k | 5.6k | 92 | 393 |
| 72 | Feb 16, '25 | These are the real hours of a bar in San Francisco. I’m afraid the situation has become very dire | 5.5× | 307k | 6.5k | 67 | 193 |
| 73 | Feb 19, '25 | @EternityMasks I’m poor | 5.5× | 305k | 14k | 39 | 21 |
| 74 | Dec 28, '24 | Raising my children in a city with 5x the national youth suicide rate so that they can have a 30% higher chance of getting into Stanford and becoming a Google PM for a product that | 5.5× | 303k | 8.9k | 264 | 707 |
| 75 | Oct 16, '25 | I never thought about it this way. School is the original “in meetings all day so you have to do the real work later” | 5.4× | 299k | 7.8k | 538 | 1.1k |
| 76 | Jan 13, '25 | You’re so obsessed with acquiring information that you forgot how to live | 5.0× | 281k | 7.8k | 922 | 625 |
| 77 | Jul 18, '25 | I find this speaking style extremely aggravating | 5.0× | 278k | 6.8k | 79 | 516 |
| 78 | Jan 3, '24 | View post on X | 4.9× | 273k | 5.8k | 151 | 77 |
| 79 | Aug 31, '24 | software engineers are so bad at basic social skills that they act like being friendly and pleasant to work with is some sort of dark political machination | 4.7× | 262k | 6.5k | 232 | 603 |
| 80 | Mar 13, '25 | When somebody in the work chat already reacted with the 👍🏾 and then you gotta decide if it’s asserting your whiteness too decisively to react with a 👍 | 4.5× | 248k | 7k | 72 | 256 |
| 81 | Mar 1, '25 | Can’t believe how badly we’ve lied to people by teaching them that the point of reading books or watching movies is to extract “themes” and “ideas” like you’re going to write a rea | 4.3× | 241k | 5.1k | 279 | 581 |
| 82 | Sep 19, '25 | A short form video addiction? How permanent underclass of you | 4.2× | 234k | 8.7k | 539 | 1k |
| 83 | Jul 11, '25 | Respectfully, you guys make large language models. The singularity is not coming in 2-3 years. I think it’s time to stop talking this way. | 4.1× | 227k | 5.3k | 138 | 193 |
| 84 | May 20, '25 | That 5 minute meeting you scheduled? That’s actually called “context switching” and it can take a developer 3-5 years to regain their full focus. Please be more mindful next time | 4.0× | 225k | 5.5k | 182 | 326 |
| 85 | Mar 1, '25 | Crazy that there are people who actually think like this. This was a real post | 3.8× | 210k | 5.1k | 136 | 292 |
| 86 | Feb 25, '25 | Today a guy in distress asked me for help paying the train fare. Didn’t seem angry or violent, but I told him I couldn’t and kept walking. Then I’m thinking like…that feels wrong. | 3.8× | 208k | 7.4k | 37 | 88 |
| 87 | Aug 26, '25 | AI water usage is basically qanon for libs | 3.7× | 203k | 5.8k | 286 | 318 |
| 88 | Apr 10, '25 | I hate all of those fake collective nouns for animals. “An exaltation of larks,” “an ostentation of peacocks,” “a shrewdness of apes.” Give me a break. These were all made up so th | 3.6× | 201k | 7.9k | 239 | 347 |
| 89 | Feb 25, '25 | And I’ve been in situations where it seemed reasonable to help and I did and then it went poorly. And now I’ve got an unstable, mentally ill person following me around. So there is | 3.5× | 196k | 7.7k | 47 | 108 |
| 90 | Dec 25, '23 | did you ever live in a house where you have a bunch of random silverware and you got 5 types of spoons and some are better than the others and sometimes you pull out one of the goo | 3.5× | 194k | 5.9k | 280 | 164 |
| 91 | Feb 28, '25 | At some point “millennial” switched from being a pejorative used by older people to a pejorative used by younger people | 3.4× | 191k | 6.6k | 229 | 240 |
| 92 | Jul 27, '25 | These type of movies will be the first ones replaced by AI. The people will love the infinite slop machine | 3.2× | 175k | 8.2k | 154 | 148 |
| 93 | Nov 27, '24 | Every adult in the US should have the right to buy a little bit of adderall over the counter. Not unlimited, just like a few pills a month. You gotta show your ID and stuff at the | 2.9× | 161k | 6.4k | 194 | 218 |
| 94 | Jun 2, '25 | Having a sore throat is one of those things that seems disproportionately uncomfortable relative to the actual amount of pain it causes (which is very little). Who can explain this | 2.9× | 159k | 7.7k | 176 | 277 |
| 95 | Mar 26, '24 | this is gonna be so clutch for when you want to watch 37 pieces of stock footage strung together with a voiceover | 2.8× | 155k | 7.8k | 161 | 100 |
| 96 | Apr 27, '25 | View post on X | 2.7× | 151k | 5.8k | 106 | 133 |
| 97 | Nov 11, '24 | >ama >76 replies >doesn’t answer a single one | 2.6× | 147k | 7.3k | 67 | 125 |
| 98 | Jul 29, '23 | you were so close man. just a little bit more | 2.5× | 136k | 5.4k | 10 | 9 |
| 99 | Aug 26, '25 | When I was 7 years old my teacher told me her hobby was running. I had never heard of this, and it was inconceivable to me. Just running? The pure abstract activity? Entirely divor | 2.1× | 118k | 5.1k | 205 | 346 |
| 100 | Jun 19, '25 | @samswoora Putting your baby on blast like this is crazy | 1.7× | 93k | 5.4k | 0 | 7 |
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