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New top story on Hacker News: Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020

As Wimbledon Begins, Ashleigh Barty Is on Top of the World

Of Comic Books and Couture

What’s on TV Monday: ‘Divorce’ and ‘Veronica Mars’

‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: Unhinged

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Wind Turbine Database Viewer

New top story on Hacker News: American guy is surprised when he gets a realistic hospital bill in Croatia

New top story on Hacker News: The 8chan story: Destroyer of worlds

New top story on Hacker News: Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot

What to Watch Monday at Wimbledon

New top story on Hacker News: Sign in with Apple Differs from OpenID Connect

New top story on Hacker News: Why Do Neural Networks Need an Activation Function?

New top story on Hacker News: The Human Cost of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

New top story on Hacker News: The Internet Is Run by an Unaccountable Private Company

New top story on Hacker News: 5 Must-Read Books About the Moon

New top story on Hacker News: Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years ago

New top story on Hacker News: Why Google Duplex might make my design job redundant

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

New top story on Hacker News: Why plants don’t die from cancer

New top story on Hacker News: 'Doomsday' Math Says Humanity May Have Just 760 Years Left

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?

New top story on Hacker News: Grubhub is using 1000s of fake websites for commission fees from real businesses

New top story on Hacker News: Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report

Laura Wells, Samuel Murray

Kara Morgenstern, Charles Gary

Julie Lindenman, Dayne Jervis

Jocelyn Hinman, Michael Coffee

Elizabeth Paton, James Wise

Avery McNeil, Daniel Kay

Anne Choike, Gabriel Rauterberg

Alexandra Feuer, Joseph Portale

New top story on Hacker News: Lazydocker, a Terminal GUI for Docker

Venezuelan Navy Captain Accused of Rebellion Dies After Signs of Torture

New top story on Hacker News: With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2M text messages

Kamala Harris Is Supported by Rivals After Trump Jr. Questions Her Race

New top story on Hacker News: Making Protein Using Air, Water and Electricity

New top story on Hacker News: The Cyberutopian (2014)

New top story on Hacker News: Account Executive for B2B Flying Autonomous Vehicle Software (Iris Automation)

New top story on Hacker News: AnimEigo: The AnimEigo Titling System

Yankees’ Bats Are Too Much for the Red Sox in London

Whitney North Seymour Jr., Former U.S. Prosecutor Who Fought Corruption, Dies at 95

New top story on Hacker News: Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart

With Little to Celebrate, Mets Honor a Title-Winning Team

New top story on Hacker News: How to pick a random number from 1-10

New top story on Hacker News: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services

New top story on Hacker News: Protest in Madrid as conservatives suspend ban on most polluting cars

New top story on Hacker News: Boeing's 737 MAX software outsourced to $12.80-an-hour engineers

New top story on Hacker News: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast

The Week in Arts: Sarah Jessica Parker Back for More ‘Divorce’; a Farewell to ‘My Fair Lady’

New top story on Hacker News: Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

Looking for ‘Wrist Power’? It’s All in a Distinctive Watch

Rado Watches Adopts Le Corbusier’s Colors

50 Years On, the Omega Watch That Went to the Moon

Your Leather Watch Strap and N.F.L. Footballs May Have Something in Common

A Watch That Is All a Pilot Would Ever Need

Apple Watch Hasn’t Crushed the Swiss. Not Yet.

What’s on TV Saturday: Ramy Youssef and ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’

Mets Lose to Braves and Reach a Season Low

New top story on Hacker News: Google Cloud Announces Equiano, a Subsea Cable from Portugal to South Africa

New top story on Hacker News: Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances

New top story on Hacker News: Snap! 5 is here

New top story on Hacker News: Magical, Mystical JavaScript Transducers

New top story on Hacker News: Dissenter: The free speech web browser

New top story on Hacker News: Subway Got Too Big – Franchisees Paid a Price

New top story on Hacker News: Programming Patterns I Like

New top story on Hacker News: I’ve spent 5 years writing a JavaScript framework on my own

New top story on Hacker News: Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Animating Doodles with Autoencoders and Synthetic Data (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: Freeing My Phone from Google

New top story on Hacker News: Terence Tao's Raw Notes After His Princeton Comprehensive Exams (1999)

New top story on Hacker News: Vimeo deletes Project Veritas account after report highlighting Google AI bias

New top story on Hacker News: Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut

Debate Night 2: The ‘On Politics’ Breakdown

New top story on Hacker News: NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time

What’s on TV Friday: ‘100%: Julian Edelman’ and ‘Collateral’

New top story on Hacker News: Mux is growing and hiring engineers to work in Elixir, React, Go, and Kubernetes

Highlights From Night Two of the Democratic Debate

Full Transcript: Democratic Presidential Debates, Night 2

San Francisco School Board Votes to Cover Controversial George Washington Murals

England Cruises Past Norway in a Women’s World Cup Quarterfinal

Before Talks With Trump, Xi Promotes His Image as a Leader With Friends

New top story on Hacker News: New AI programming language goes beyond deep learning

When Is Being Together Worth $5.50 an Hour? Please Solve

The World’s Top Stock Market? Right Now, It’s Russia

New top story on Hacker News: OS X/Linker: New Mac malware attempts zero-day Gatekeeper bypass

New top story on Hacker News: EC2 Instance Connect

New top story on Hacker News: Uber/Lyft drivers say they were misled into petitioning against workers rights

New top story on Hacker News: One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout

New top story on Hacker News: The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Data Engineer

New top story on Hacker News: Americans Still Greatly Overestimate U.S. Gay Population

New top story on Hacker News: The NBA Wants You to Bet on Games That Never Happened

New top story on Hacker News: How AMD Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’

New top story on Hacker News: India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications

New top story on Hacker News: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

New top story on Hacker News: Ravens parallel great apes in flexible planning for tool-use and bartering

New top story on Hacker News: Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

New top story on Hacker News: Writing an OS in Rust: Heap Allocation

Debate Night 1: The ‘On Politics’ Breakdown

Saudi Arabia Is Running Out of Friends

What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Anima’ and ‘Laurence Anyways’

Highlights From the First Democratic Debate

Why Is Everyone Drinking Celery Juice as if It Will Save Them From Dying?

New top story on Hacker News: Work in Harajuku and transform the way the world shops $100k – $180k

New top story on Hacker News: It’s Time for Some Queueing Theory

New top story on Hacker News: Battle lines being drawn: A map of YIMBY-NIMBY skirmishes in Bay Area

New top story on Hacker News: New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says

New top story on Hacker News: Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist

New top story on Hacker News: More and more people loathe Renoir – Is it time for a revival?

New top story on Hacker News: Secrecy, Self-Dealing, and Greed at the NRA

New top story on Hacker News: GitHub is running extra copies, indexed by Google

New top story on Hacker News: Durable Design (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: Fond (YC W12) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineer in Portland

New top story on Hacker News: Robots 'to replace up to 20M factory jobs' by 2030

New top story on Hacker News: Mitch Kapor Introduces Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet (1983) [video]

New top story on Hacker News: FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max

New top story on Hacker News: James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues

What’s on TV Wednesday: A Democratic Debate and ‘Hamlet’

New top story on Hacker News: Simplicity Made Easy – Damian Conway

New top story on Hacker News: Tesla just outsold Mercedes-Benz in the US for the first time

New top story on Hacker News: Building Standalone Python Applications with Rust

Europe Is Bracing for a Heat Wave. It’s the New Normal.

A Mystery Disease Is Killing Children, and Questions Linger About Lychees

What Happened at the Democratic Debate? Jimmy Fallon Will Let You Know

Tempers Flare as the Phillies Strike Late Against the Mets

Your Wednesday Briefing

New top story on Hacker News: Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

New top story on Hacker News: I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you

New top story on Hacker News: Apple acquires self-driving startup Drive.ai, hires dozens of Drive.ai engineers

New top story on Hacker News: Apple buys Drive.ai, showing its autonomous car project is still alive

New top story on Hacker News: I will now charge my clients a fee to support open source projects

New top story on Hacker News: Visualizing Probabilistic Models&Data W Intensive Principal Component Analysis

New top story on Hacker News: Incrementally Better Cookies

New top story on Hacker News: When Pepsi Had a Navy

New top story on Hacker News: For First Time Ever, Renewables Surpass Coal in U.S. Power Mix

New top story on Hacker News: Google proposal: LLVM implementation of libc

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Tech Companies Sidestep a Ban, to Keep Selling to Huawei

New top story on Hacker News: 3P Web

New top story on Hacker News: Fuzzing vs. Property Testing

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: US gov funds a lot of tech research, why aren't startups using them?

New top story on Hacker News: Sid: A framework for building computer system simulations (2002)

New top story on Hacker News: China’s Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech

New top story on Hacker News: FedEx sues U.S. government over 'impossible' task of policing exports to China

What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The People Versus the Party’ and ‘Only One Mike’

On Politics: Democrats Split on Emergency Migrant Aid

New top story on Hacker News: Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks

New top story on Hacker News: Brain imaging study reveals signs of Parkinson’s decades before symptoms appear

Nissan Reappoints Saikawa to Board as Shareholders Hammer Renault