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New top story on Hacker News: Why It’s So Hard to Learn French in Middle Age

New top story on Hacker News: How category theory is applied

These Ads Think They Know You

2019 Tony Award Nominations: What to Watch For

A Crisis at the N.R.A.

Solving Trump’s Federal Reserve Problem

Why It’s So Hard to Learn French in Middle Age

L Train Slowdown: 1 Weekend Down, 15 Months to Go

James Holzhauer Is Dominating ‘Jeopardy!’ But What’s Life Like After the Show?

‘Game of Thrones’: Lyanna the Giant Slayer Never Expected to Last This Long

New top story on Hacker News: Robert Hooke’s Snowflakes (2013)

New top story on Hacker News: Google has added “unsupported browser” warnings for Edge Chromium on Google Docs

New top story on Hacker News: Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corp Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It

In Afghan Blood Sports, the Animals Aren’t the Only Ones Fighting

When Is HPV a Problem?

Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group

As Buttigieg Builds His Campaign, Gay Donors Provide the Foundation

Is America Ready for a Gay President? ‘You’re Going to See the Wall Crumble’

Brigham Young Graduate ‘Proud to Be a Gay Son of God’

Who Killed Atlanta’s Children?

They Want It to Be Secret: How a Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1,000

Going to the Swedish Woods to Live an Instagram Fairy Tale

How to Choose the Right Rug

Which L.G.B.T.Q. Figures Should Get Monuments in New York?

Letter of Recommendation: Jury Duty

Almost All the Colleges I Wanted to Go to Rejected Me. Now What?

Reinventing the Tomato for Survival in a Changing World

From Apples to Popcorn, Climate Change Is Altering the Foods America Grows

How Does Your Love of Wine Contribute to Climate Change?

These Five Cuisines Are Easier on the Planet

In a Switch, Some Republicans Start Citing Climate Change as Driving Their Policies

The New Mall Tenant Is Your Office

Your Tuesday Briefing

New top story on Hacker News: Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts

New top story on Hacker News: Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment

Sri Lanka’s President Lifts Ban on Social Media

Photographing Trafficked Animals in Colombia

Learning With: ‘Lego Is Making Braille Bricks. They May Give Blind Literacy a Needed Lift.’

His Punch Lines Cross Moral Lines. Anthony Jeselnik Gets Away With It.

New top story on Hacker News: Nanoscale Vacuum-Channel Transistor

Late Night Congratulates Trump on His 10,000th Lie

New top story on Hacker News: Using SQLAlchemy and Postgres functions to produce JSON structures from joins

The ‘Dumb Choice’ That James Harden, Stephen Curry and the Rest of the N.B.A. Increasingly Avoid: The 2-Point Shot

New top story on Hacker News: Gentleman Officer

New top story on Hacker News: The Remote Manifesto

New top story on Hacker News: TeX Live 2019

New top story on Hacker News: You should have a personal web site

New top story on Hacker News: Silicon Valley Is Not a Fad

New top story on Hacker News: Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

New top story on Hacker News: Google Advertising Revenue Growth Slows, Triggering Share Slump

New top story on Hacker News: How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open Data

New top story on Hacker News: I Can’t Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space

New top story on Hacker News: The Paris Compressed-Air Power Network (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle

New top story on Hacker News: Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking

New top story on Hacker News: WeWork Files for IPO

New top story on Hacker News: Jenkins Is Getting Old

New top story on Hacker News: People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps

New top story on Hacker News: Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layout engine in Rust

New top story on Hacker News: Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Trexo Robotics (YC W19) – Robotic Legs for Kids with Cerebral Palsy

New top story on Hacker News: Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones

New top story on Hacker News: Visualizing Collective Trends in Space and Time [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Old emotions remain salient in insomnia disorder

New top story on Hacker News: Motion Estimation with Optical Flow

New top story on Hacker News: When Proxies Lie: Verifying Locations of Proxies with Active Geolocation (2018) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysis

New top story on Hacker News: How many ways are there to sort GUIDs?

New top story on Hacker News: This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992)

Press Releases: U.S.-Mongolia Consultations Advance Bilateral Relations

Press Releases: Secretary Pompeo's Meeting With Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström

Press Releases: Secretary Pompeo To Receive the Business Executives for National Security Eisenhower Award

Press Releases: Special Representative Ambassador James Jeffrey Travels to Turkey and Switzerland

Press Releases: Conversation With The Hill's Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack The Hill's Newsmaker Series

Press Releases: Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Christopher A. Ford To Lead U.S. Delegation to the NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting 2019 in New York

Press Releases: Republic of the Marshall Islands National Day

Abdication of Japan’s Emperor, Who Put a Human Face on the Monarchy

On Politics: Rod Rosenstein to Step Down

Aaron Judge Is Everywhere for the Yankees, Except on the Field

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us

New York City’s Quirkiest Bus: 1 Bridge, 3 Stops

Movie Theaters

Word + Quiz: gravitas

Tesla Looks to Regain Its Luster in Solar Energy by Slashing Prices

Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio Tops the List of Hedge Fund Manager Compensation

What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘On Tour With Asperger’s Are Us’ and ‘The Last Survivors’

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Las principales noticias del martes

A Princess in a Cage

The Suitor With the Shaggy Hair

The Long Shadows of a Failed War

Trump Sues Banks to Stop Them From Complying With House Subpoenas