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Quotation of the Day: Billions Slide Down Ladder That Took Decades to Climb

New top story on Hacker News: ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the .org TLD

New top story on Hacker News: ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry

New top story on Hacker News: Grab Asks Staff to Take No-Pay Leave to Cut Costs

New top story on Hacker News: The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis

New top story on Hacker News: Millions of emails leaking from sites to advertising and analytics companies

Corrections: May 1, 2020

Labs Across U.S. Join Federal Initiative to Study Coronavirus Genome

Closing Number of a Musical

New top story on Hacker News: How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power

New top story on Hacker News: The sweary, ranty YouTuber who's become an isolation cooking sensation

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

In Place of Pomp and Circumstance: Oprah

New top story on Hacker News: California, Los Angeles see jump in new cases, Bay Area continues down

New top story on Hacker News: Charles-Henri Sanson, Royal Executioner (2018)

Fiona Ex Machina

Two Arrested in Killings of Transgender Women in Puerto Rico

Peter Hunt, Who Directed the Broadway Hit ‘1776,’ Dies at 81

Scrambling the Political Divide: ‘No Normal Recession’

In a Crisis, True Leaders Stand Out

Democrats Assail McConnell for Bringing Senate Back Amid Pandemic

Amazon Sells More, but Warns of Much Higher Costs Ahead

New top story on Hacker News: Release (YC W20) Is Hiring a Senior SW Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure (Remote)

New top story on Hacker News: The Open Web Is Dying

New top story on Hacker News: Manager's Playbook: Heuristics for effective management

New top story on Hacker News: Lithuanian capital to be turned into vast open-air cafe

21-Year-Old Man Arrested in Fatal Shooting of Indianapolis Postal Worker

New top story on Hacker News: Miscalculation at Every Level Left U.S. Unequipped to Fight Coronavirus

New top story on Hacker News: Studio Ghibli Releases Free Zoom Backgrounds for Video Conferencing

Quotation of the Day: Pandemic Is Further Eroding France’s Trust in Central Government

Maggie Haney, Elite Gymnastics Coach, Is Suspended for 8 Years

Goal-Scoring Opportunities

New top story on Hacker News: Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer (React/Go) in SF Bay Area

New top story on Hacker News: Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life

A Strange Dinosaur May Have Swam the Rivers of Africa

Harrison Ford Strayed Onto an Active Runway in His Plane

Prisoner With Coronavirus Dies After Giving Birth While on Ventilator

Irrfan Khan: Mira Nair Remembers Her ‘Namesake’ Star

Corrections: April 30, 2020

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

Delivering Food Under Coronavirus

The Trump Administration’s Legal Moves to Prevent a Meat Shortage, Explained

Trump Seeks Push to Speed Vaccine, Despite Safety Concerns

Trump and Kushner Engage in Wishful Thinking and Revisionist History

New top story on Hacker News: SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers

New top story on Hacker News: Frank Ramsey – The Man Who Thought Too Fast

New top story on Hacker News: Software Is Polluting the World

Filtered Coffee May Be Especially Good for Heart Health

Filtered Coffee May Be Especially Good for Heart Health

Justin Amash Moves Toward a Third-Party Bid for President

New top story on Hacker News: Proving that C++'s grammar is undecidable

Mfume to Return to Congress, Succeeding Elijah Cummings

‘Miedo de ser enfermera’: Los trabajadores de la salud están bajo ataque

Argentina and France Scrap Soccer Seasons

Corrections: April 29, 2020

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

How Teachers Are Fighting to Make Meaningful Connections With Students

Transgresora y tradicional: así es la reina del rap en quechua de Perú

‘Governors Don’t Do Global Pandemics’: Cuomo Faults Others Over Virus

Trump Administration’s Message on Reopening Continues to Be Contradictory

How to Defend a Dissertation Virtually

Cooperstown: Wait Till Next Year?

China Mounts Aggressive Defense to Calls for Coronavirus Compensation

Tucker Carlson Beats Sean Hannity as Trump Briefings Give Fox News a Boost

It’s Not Enough to ‘Get Back to Normal’

Pence Tours Mayo Clinic and Flouts Its Rule That All Visitors Wear a Mask

New top story on Hacker News: Hiding in plain sight: PhantomLance walks into a market

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine

New top story on Hacker News: DigitalOcean VPC

New top story on Hacker News: A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall

2 Sought $4 Million for Face Masks That Didn’t Exist, U.S. Says

Quotation of the Day: ‘Truly in the Trenches,’ Doctor Dies by Suicide

Corrections: April 28, 2020

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New top story on Hacker News: Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Covid-19: Only 268 cases and no deaths. How did Vietnam with 97M people do it?

New York Attorney General Scrutinizes Amazon for Firing Warehouse Worker