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Bin Laden Family ‘Henchman’ Is Arrested in Philippines

New top story on Hacker News: The Ethics of Web Performance

Debate Night 2: The ‘On Politics’ Breakdown

What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Fate of the Furious’ and ‘No One Saw a Thing’

New top story on Hacker News: Hawaii Extends Thirty Meter Telescope Permit Amid Protests

New top story on Hacker News: Implementing Poincaré Embeddings

Your Thursday Briefing

Highlights From Night 2 of the July Democratic Debates

Your Thursday Briefing

New top story on Hacker News: The Paradox of Toil (2010)

At Debate, Democrats Challenge Biden Over Obama’s Deportation Record

Yes, the Man Bag Is a Hot Accessory

Why Lululemon Chief Calvin McDonald Wants to Be an Ironman

New top story on Hacker News: PLA's Hong Kong Chief says troops are ready to protect China's sovereignty

New top story on Hacker News: The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine

New top story on Hacker News: Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity

New top story on Hacker News: A New York Farm Stand’s Success: An Eye for the Next Big Thing

New top story on Hacker News: Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Game Developers in Montreal, QC

New top story on Hacker News: Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered

New top story on Hacker News: ZRNA – Software-defined analog circuits

New top story on Hacker News: A Transparent Display with Per-Pixel Color and Opacity Control

New top story on Hacker News: Low-level is easy (2008)

New top story on Hacker News: LF: Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store

New top story on Hacker News: French startup wants to transform old ICE cars into electric vehicles for 5000€

New top story on Hacker News: UK's 10 warmest years all occurred since 2002

When Lawmakers Try to Ban Assault Weapons, Gunmakers Adapt

New top story on Hacker News: The Stranding of the MV Shokalskiy (Idle Words)

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon as Experiment

Highlights From Night One of the July Democratic Debates

Trevor Bauer and Yasiel Puig Are Dealt in 3-Team Trade

Mets Recover From Bullpen Meltdown to Beat White Sox

What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Sherman’s Showcase’ and ‘Jane the Virgin’

New top story on Hacker News: Searching for the Sundays

After Loss to Arizona, Yankees Have Dropped Six of Nine Games

Brexit and Boris Johnson Send the British Pound on a Slide

Your Wednesday Briefing

New top story on Hacker News: Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder’ Plant?

New top story on Hacker News: Espresso Machine Powered by Tcl/Tk

New top story on Hacker News: ‘Moscow Mitch’ Tag Enrages McConnell and Squeezes GOP on Election Security

New top story on Hacker News: Everything Cops Say About Amazon's Ring Is Scripted or Approved by Ring

New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to Bayesian Filter

New top story on Hacker News: ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in SF

New top story on Hacker News: As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do

New top story on Hacker News: Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right?

New top story on Hacker News: Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty

New top story on Hacker News: Elementary Algebra (Kenneth E. Iverson, 1971) [pdf]

Gilroy’s Garlic Festival Turned a Stinky Ethnic Food Into a Symbol of Multicultural America

China Says It Has Freed Most Muslims Held in Camps. That’s Difficult to Prove.

New top story on Hacker News: Musical Chemistry

What’s on TV Tuesday: The ‘Bachelorette’ Finale and Whitney Cummings

On Politics: It’s Debate Night

New top story on Hacker News: Data Links Drive Trust

Your Tuesday Briefing

New top story on Hacker News: A tiny language called Z (2013)

New top story on Hacker News: A Company tries to abuse GitHub star system and developers lash back

New top story on Hacker News: Ron Pucek's Living Waters Catfish Farm

New top story on Hacker News: A Critique of Pure Learning: What Neural Networks Can Learn from Animal Brains

New top story on Hacker News: Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship to Get Aid

New top story on Hacker News: Banding in Games: A Noisy Rant [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Capital One statement on data breach

New top story on Hacker News: The Near Impossible 20-Year Journey to Translate 'Fire Emblem: Thracia 776'

New top story on Hacker News: Radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017

New top story on Hacker News: Stripe plans to open office in Baltimore

New top story on Hacker News: Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

New top story on Hacker News: The Honey Trap on East 71st Street

New top story on Hacker News: America’s Farmers, Reeling from Floods, Face a New Problem: No Water

New top story on Hacker News: Truncate vs. Delete: Efficiently Clearing Data from a Postgres Table

New top story on Hacker News: Supervisors Driven by Bottom Line Fail to Get Top Performance: Study

New top story on Hacker News: The art of interrupting software engineers

New top story on Hacker News: Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors

Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought.

5 Things to Know About Military Romance Scams on Facebook

Megan Rapinoe, Conquering Hero, Returns to Cheers but Not to Action

While Reporting on Facebook Scams, an Unexpected Tragedy

New top story on Hacker News: On Writing a C++ Book

New top story on Hacker News: Downward Mobility (1982)

New top story on Hacker News: Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills

New top story on Hacker News: Popper – The Logic of Scientific Discovery [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: What I Do When It Feels Like My Work Isn’t Good Enough

Las principales noticias del lunes

Mets, Riding High Off Sweep, Trade for Marcus Stroman

New top story on Hacker News: The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom

New top story on Hacker News: Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)

John Ratcliffe, Nominee for Intelligence Chief, Is Seen as Staunch Trump Ally

The Rot You Smell Is a Racist Potus

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Studyr – Student Planner for iOS

Quotation of the Day: House Democrats Head Into Their August Recess With a Mixed Record

No Corrections: July 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Best Lisp for software development?

Baltimore to Trump: Knocking Our City Is Our Job, Not Yours

New top story on Hacker News: Notqmail: Collaborative open-source successor to qmail

The U.S. and Guatemala Reached an Asylum Deal: Here’s What It Means

Jennifer Narvaez, Jack Roberts

Helen Woolworth, Morgan Brown

Hayley Duus, Ryan Hosie

Claire Cushman, Stuart Reid

Chris Frakes, Rory McMahon

Bonnie Klugman, Robert Romano

Anna Devine, Jacob Anbinder

New top story on Hacker News: Magnetically Accelerated Plasmoid (Map) Thruster (2007) [pdf]

Quotation of the Day: Clashes and Tear Gas as Hong Kong Police Confront Protesters

Corrections: July 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: How I use the good parts of AWS while filtering out all the distracting hype

Miners Kill Indigenous Leader in Brazil During Invasion of Protected Land

New top story on Hacker News: Spaceman Diff: Diffing Images on the Command Line

New top story on Hacker News: Apple: No Macintosh Forks. But the iPad

The Yankees and Their Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week

New top story on Hacker News: Meet the beetles: The insect drawings of Joris Hoefnagel

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

New top story on Hacker News: The CSS background-image property as an anti-pattern

New top story on Hacker News: US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples

Fifth N.Y.P.D. Officer Since June Dies by Suicide, Police Say

New top story on Hacker News: ZMap: Single packet network scanner designed for Internet-wide network surveys

New top story on Hacker News: In Life or Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything

U.S.A. Basketball Will Pay Some Women’s Players Ahead of Olympics

‘I Should Be More Careful With Twitter’: Marianne Williamson on Those Mental Health Comments

The Week in Arts: Wendy Whelan Dances; April Matthis Is at Bat

New top story on Hacker News: GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards

What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Share’ and ‘Widows’