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New top story on Hacker News: Reasons to Learn Redux as a JavaScript Developer

New top story on Hacker News: Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head

New top story on Hacker News: 'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs in medicine

Dizzying Day for Trump Caps a Year Full of Them

Kevin Spacey Accuser’s Estate Drops Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Hong Kong Protest: Thousands Expected to March on New Year’s Day

New top story on Hacker News: Chinese Scientist Accused of Smuggling Samples, Amid Crackdown on Research Theft

Hospitals and Schools Are Being Bombed in Syria. A U.N. Inquiry Is Limited. We Took a Deeper Look.

Quotation of the Day: Ex-SEAL Now Pitching Products and President

Corrections: Jan. 1, 2020

‘It’s Green and Slimy’

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you responsibly report security bugs to open-source projects?

New top story on Hacker News: I asked a hacker to spy on me via my Amazon account

New top story on Hacker News: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

New top story on Hacker News: Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is

F.D.A. Plans to Ban Most E-Cigarette Flavors but Menthol

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Goods Trade Deficit Declines to Smallest in Three Years

New top story on Hacker News: A music player for the TS80 soldering iron

New top story on Hacker News: Movie Theater in town created by Disney World closed for almost a decade (2018)

Protect Veterans From Fraud

Texas Churchgoers Welcomed the Poor, but Sensed This One Was Trouble

Al interior de un tribunal de guerra estadounidense: la ropa y la cultura en Guantánamo

Science Panel Staffed With Trump Appointees Says E.P.A. Rollbacks Lack Scientific Rigor

New top story on Hacker News: Verdigris: Qt Without Moc

The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and Stan in Australia in January

Huawei Posts Solid Growth but Warns of Difficulties Ahead

Silently Bids Adieu

New top story on Hacker News: The battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age

New top story on Hacker News: The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out

2019: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics

Data Breach at Wyze Labs Exposes Information of 2.4 Million Customers

New top story on Hacker News: Huawei’s Revenue Hits Record $122B in 2019 Despite U.S. Campaign

New top story on Hacker News: KernType – A Kerning Game

U.S. Population Makes Fewest Gains in Decades, Census Bureau Says

Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law

Data Breach at Wyze Labs Exposes Information of 2.4 Million Customers

New top story on Hacker News: The Red and The Black

New top story on Hacker News: Deep learning approach improves accuracy of screening mammography

New top story on Hacker News: Researchers observe brain-like behavior in nanoscale device

Pompeo to Meet With Ukraine’s Zelensky in Kyiv

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit by Ex-Trump Aide Subpoenaed in Impeachment Inquiry

Schumer Demands Witnesses Be Called at Senate Impeachment Trial

Double the Federal Minimum Wage

After Death From Falling Debris, Violations Found at 220 Buildings

The Legacy of Destructive Austerity

American Airstrikes Rally Iraqis Against U.S.

New top story on Hacker News: CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping

New top story on Hacker News: Empirical Comparison of DOS Kernels (2015)

What We Learned in N.F.L. Week 17

Left Behind by Migrant Husbands, Women Break the Rules and Go to Work

New top story on Hacker News: The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones

New top story on Hacker News: Chips Are Getting Noisier

New top story on Hacker News: Tarot for Hackers

New top story on Hacker News: The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago

New top story on Hacker News: The Security Architecture of Qmail (2004) [pdf]

The Decade We Changed Our Minds

New top story on Hacker News: Andrew Taylor: I’m on Medicare, but I still got stuck with a $25k hospital bill

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Chromda – Serverless Website Screenshots

Eagles Overwhelm Giants to Clinch a Playoff Berth

New top story on Hacker News: Principles of the American Cargo Cult (2003)

New top story on Hacker News: How writing began, and other unexpectedly funny stories about cuneiform [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Taking a look at a covert CIA virtual fencing solution [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Video: A Language for Making Movies

New top story on Hacker News: Quanta’s Year in Math and Computer Science (2019)

John Lewis, Congressman and Civil Rights Icon, Has Pancreatic Cancer

Bill Barr Thinks America Is Going to Hell

The Presidential Nominating Process Is Absurd

New top story on Hacker News: Why I won't switch to Firefox as a web developer

New top story on Hacker News: A 3 weeks trip to Europe costed him 411$

New top story on Hacker News: Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst

New top story on Hacker News: Wisdom (albatross)

Siobhan Heekin-Canedy, Michael O’Hara

Shannon Kahlden, Christopher Westerlind

Jessica Hopfield, James Cleary

Trevor Lawrence Puts Clemson Back in the National Championship Game

How Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S.

North Korea Convenes Party Meeting, Raising Fears of New Weapons Tests

Monsey Stabbing: Several Wounded at Rabbi’s Home in N.Y. Suburb

New top story on Hacker News: Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay

New top story on Hacker News: The Ecosystem Is Moving

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube seeks 'responsibility'

Look Up

The Decade of Disillusionment

New top story on Hacker News: SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs

New top story on Hacker News: Uncover, Understand, Own – Regaining Control over Your AMD CPU [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Computer Science from the Bottom Up

Joe Burrow Threw 7 Touchdowns. And That Was Just L.S.U.’s First Half

Fred P. Graham, Legal Affairs Reporter and Court TV Anchor, Dies at 88

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

New top story on Hacker News: FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine

New top story on Hacker News: FreeDB Is Shutting Down

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products

New top story on Hacker News: Topology and complex analysis for the unsuspecting game dev

Federal Judge Backs Georgia’s Purge of Nearly 100,000 Voters

Juicy News Alert

Hero in U.N.C. Charlotte Shooting Is Honored in New ‘Star Wars’ Book

New top story on Hacker News: DJ Steve Aoki quietly opens a cloud only pizza restaurant in Oakland

New top story on Hacker News: Variable Fonts: The Future of Web Type (2016)

The Secrets of Jewish Genius

New top story on Hacker News: Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns

Joe Biden Says He’d Defy Subpoena to Testify in Trump’s Senate Trial