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September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Yahoo engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Automation will drastically reduce police and city budgets

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: To show or not to show work

September 30, 2019

They Usually Attract

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Half a Person

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Make School (YC W12) is hiring a growth marketer

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits 10 year delay

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics

September 30, 2019

Alberto Salazar: Four-Year Doping Ban for the Distance Running Coach

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Square Canada doesn't have a tech issue: it's a Cuban coffee issue

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: On Tilt: Love, hate and poker in the neon West

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

September 30, 2019

How to Win Republican Support for Impeachment

September 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him

September 30, 2019

China National Day Live Updates: A Parade and Protest Fears

September 30, 2019

Trump’s Claims About Biden Aren’t ‘Unsupported.’ They’re Lies.

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: The perils of short-termism: Civilisation’s greatest threat

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: The Electoral College and the Knapsack Problem

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité

September 29, 2019

‘Succession’ Season 2, Episode 8: Bad Rap

September 29, 2019

‘The Affair’ Season 5, Episode 6: Generational Trauma

September 29, 2019

On Opening Weekend, Another Horse Dies at Santa Anita

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Are We Living in a Post-Happiness World?

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Aristotl – an intuitive logical fallacy lookup tool

September 29, 2019

Forever 21, Which Helped Popularize Fast Fashion, to File for Bankruptcy

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube Demonetizes Videos with Titles Containing LGBTQ-Related Words

September 29, 2019

4 Inmates Escape From Ohio Jail After Overpowering Guards

September 29, 2019

Pelosi Pushes for Simple Message on Impeachment as Inquiry Barrels Ahead

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Humans can acquire TB from deer

September 29, 2019

Elena Delle Donne Gets Help as Mystics Take Game 1 Over the Sun

September 29, 2019

U.S. Officials Warn of Rising Threat From Qaeda Branch in Northwest Syria

September 29, 2019

Hong Kong’s Status as Neutral Ground at Risk as China Asserts Power

September 29, 2019

M.L.B.’s Juggernauts Set to Clash After a Season of Extraordinary Numbers

September 29, 2019

Man Is Charged With Terrorism After Driving S.U.V. Through Illinois Mall

September 29, 2019

Yankees Turn Their Focus to the Playoffs, and Stifling the Twins

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs

September 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: In Quest of a Pangram (1988) [pdf]

September 28, 2019

Quotation of the Day: Beijing Parade Glorifies Party, and Xi’s Power

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Apple Card Review

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: GigaSnap – Making a Prototype Device (2018)

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: The Inevitable Death of VMs: A Progress Report [pdf]

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Monads to Machine Code (2016)

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: GE, NASA Partner to advance the future of electric flight

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: SBCL 20: Steel Bank Common Lisp's 20th Anniversary Workshop

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Computer-Age Typography: Hybrid Legibility Explains That Ubiquitous Check Font

September 28, 2019

Republican Mark Amodei Tiptoes Around Impeachment Inquiry

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: SpaceX Starship Update

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration with Augmentations (2010)

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: David E. Shaw and the Ultimate College Hedge

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: AllenNLP Interpret: A Framework for Explaining Predictions of NLP Models

September 28, 2019

Mets’ Pete Alonso Breaks Rookie Home-Run Record

September 28, 2019

‘You’re a Bad Police Officer’: Official Confronts Deputy at Awards Ceremony

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: The Two Squares Puzzle

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: What Brought You Here?

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: When depression is like a cancer

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Life as a cancer patient: ‘it feels like dying from the drugs meant to save me’

September 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?

September 27, 2019

A Marathon at Midnight, to Beat the Heat at the World Championships in Doha

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: From Pocket Computers to Palmtops: An Early History of Mobile Telecomputing

September 27, 2019

Corrections: September 28, 2019

September 27, 2019

Mark Amodei Is First House Republican to Support Trump Impeachment Inquiry

September 27, 2019

Quotation of the Day: 18 Transgender Killings This Year Raise Fears of an ‘Epidemic’

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Pope urges Silicon Valley to avoid slide toward new “barbarism”

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: I built a wind map with WebGL (2017)

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Acknowledging public sex changed how walkers interacted with Paris

September 27, 2019

Rethinking Trump’s Favorite Dictator

September 27, 2019

Impeaching the Peach One

September 27, 2019

Tidy

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Modern Script Loading

September 27, 2019

Trump Tears Up the Welcome Mat

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Aardvark – Real-time graphics and visualization in F#

September 27, 2019

How Good Is the Yankees’ Defense? Depends on Who’s Keeping Track

September 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Malwarebytes Analysis of Checkm8 iOS Bootrom Exploit

September 27, 2019

How to Throw an Intimate Dinner at Home, the Parisian Way

September 27, 2019

Pete Alonso Ties Aaron Judge’s Rookie Record With 52nd Home Run

September 27, 2019

Giuliani Backs Out of Kremlin-Supported Conference in Armenia

September 27, 2019

Harris County Deputy Is Fatally Shot in Traffic Stop, Official Says

September 27, 2019

‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key

September 27, 2019

Biden, Weathering Attacks From Trump, Returns to Campaign Trail

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

September 26, 2019

Corrections: September 27, 2019

September 26, 2019

Quotation of the Day: Ally on Right Will Help ‘Dreamers’ in Legal Fight

September 26, 2019

What’s It’s Really Like to Eat Your Way Around the Globe

September 26, 2019

The Concussion Crisis in Australian Rules Football

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies

September 26, 2019

In a Routine Phone Call, Alarmed Aides Saw Trouble

September 26, 2019

Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’

September 26, 2019

It Gets a Party Started

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Leninthink

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: GitHub Releases an ImageNet for Code

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: You are what you leak (2018)

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper

September 26, 2019

Man Who Berated Woman Over T-Shirt With Puerto Rican Flag Is Convicted of Hate Crimes

September 26, 2019

Complaint in Hand, Democrats Aim for a Fast, and Focused, Impeachment Inquiry

September 26, 2019

Ryan Murphy, Super Producer, Reboots Himself for Netflix and ‘The Politician’

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Keeper Tax (YC W19) is hiring a freelance developer

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Dezoomify Allows You to Download Zoomable Images

September 26, 2019

Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr?

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter launches its controversial ‘Hide Replies’ feature

September 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

September 26, 2019