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What’s on TV Friday: ‘Dickinson’ and ‘American Son’

New top story on Hacker News: The California haters are back. And once again, they get us all wrong

New top story on Hacker News: Maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets

New top story on Hacker News: We Will Call It Pala: A Story for the Psychedelic Movement

New top story on Hacker News: What Is a Nation? (2015)

New top story on Hacker News: Germany's Giant Windmills Are Unpopular

New top story on Hacker News: “I've got nothing to hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

Your Friday Briefing

New top story on Hacker News: First video of the largest methane fountain so far discovered n the Arctic Ocean

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Command Line Résumé

New top story on Hacker News: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)

Connecticut Home Invasion Convict Is Undergoing Gender Transition in Prison

7-Year-Old Girl Is Shot in Chicago While Trick-or-Treating, Police Say

The Value of Working Expeditiously

New top story on Hacker News: Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud

Beer With Bella: Benjamin Law

Corrections: November 1, 2019

Quotation of the Day: What Recovery? Life on the Edge

Memphis Clerk Sentenced to 22 Years for Killing Teenager Who Stole Beer

Toronto’s City of Tomorrow Is Scaled Back Amid Privacy Concerns

New top story on Hacker News: NIH-Funded Study Suggests Acetaminophen During Pregnancy Linked to ADHD/Autism

New top story on Hacker News: Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World (2018)

New Threats Put Wildfire Fighters’ Health on the Line

Interior Department Grounds Chinese-Made Drones Amid Review

Michigan Man Sentenced for Rock Throwing That Killed Another in 2017

New top story on Hacker News: Rolling Coal

5 Cheap(ish) Things to Take Stargazing

Kind of Experiment

New top story on Hacker News: Join YC's Work at a Startup to find your next engineering job

New top story on Hacker News: Fast Ads Matter

Philippines Struck by Second Big Earthquake in Three Days

New top story on Hacker News: It’s the End of California as We Know It

Ford and U.A.W. in Tentative Contract Deal

New top story on Hacker News: Robust Interprocess Locks

New top story on Hacker News: Getting Started with Security Keys

New top story on Hacker News: Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years

The Clintons and Justice Ginsburg on Judicial Nominations, Then and Now

Your Move, Facebook

New top story on Hacker News: GitHub Student Developer Pack

New top story on Hacker News: Which Planet Is Closest?

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server

How to Eat Alone (and Like It)

Georgia Plans to Purge 300,000 Names From Its Voter Rolls

Stick to Sports? No Way. Deadspin Journalists Quit en Masse.

Hundreds of U.S. Troops Leaving, and Also Arriving in, Syria

Iraq Prime Minister Pressed to Quit as Protests Clog Streets

‘Tricks’ Creatures Use

Quotation of the Day: Democrats Have Diverse Field, but the Top Tier Is All White

UEFA Punishes Bulgaria for Fans’ Racist Behavior

Corrections: October 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

New top story on Hacker News: Kodable is hiring Game Developers to help teach millions of kids to code

New top story on Hacker News: Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows

New top story on Hacker News: Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Fwd Prediction

New top story on Hacker News: Physicists searching for dark matter using lead from the bottom of the sea

New top story on Hacker News: IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

New top story on Hacker News: Google Announces .new Domain Availability

New top story on Hacker News: Not in the Cold War, Vietnam, or Watergate did I ever fear more for my country

White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call

Sony to Shut Down PlayStation Vue, a Cable Alternative

New top story on Hacker News: CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies

Why New York Can’t Pick Up Its Trash

Toyota’s Support of Trump Emissions Rules Shocks Californians

Woman Who Oversaw Robberies Targeting Asians and Indians Gets 37 Years in Prison

72 British Lawmakers Condemn ‘Colonial’ Coverage of Meghan

House Passes Resolution Recognizing Armenian Genocide

Despair for Many and Silver Linings for Some in California Wildfires

Can the Nationals and Astros Turn This World Series Into a Classic?

‘Fear’ Review: 3 Men in a Shed, 1 Missing Girl on Their Minds

‘Seared’ Review: For a Pompous Chef, Comeuppance on the Menu

fires in california

Strong Earthquake Strikes Southern Philippine Island

New top story on Hacker News: Distribution of eggshell colors: thermoregulatory benefit of darker pigmentation

As Kurds Tracked ISIS Leader, U.S. Withdrawal Threw Raid Into Turmoil

What the U.S. Withdrawal Cost the Kurds

New top story on Hacker News: Intel Q3 2019 Fab Update: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track

New top story on Hacker News: “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris

Army Officer on White House Staff Reported Concerns on Trump’s Ukraine Dealings

An Alternative to the Salad Spinner

Cookbook Authors Discuss Jewish Cuisine

Flavored Salts From Momofuku

The Baltic States Get Their Culinary Due

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing?

New top story on Hacker News: Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds

2 Photos of Tense White House Moments: Note the Differences

A Chocolate Bar With a Golden Blockchain Token