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Chants, Clashes and Hundreds of Arrests: What Happened at the Protests in New York City

New top story on Hacker News: Anonymous returns: Hacker group targets police and Trump administration

New top story on Hacker News: Mimir – A Near-Infrared Wide-Field Imager, Spectrometer and Polarimeter

New top story on Hacker News: Prowords

Kick Off a Week of Community and Culture

‘Billions’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap: Old Men

Truck Driver Arrested After Barreling Through Minneapolis Protest

New top story on Hacker News: Is this the most orderly nation?

New top story on Hacker News: Brex Lays Off 62 Employees

New top story on Hacker News: An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]

Christo’s Grand Projects

Aggressive Police Tactics During Protests Are Under Scrutiny

Amid Riots and a Pandemic, Church Attendance Resumes in ‘a Very Broken World’

New top story on Hacker News: Website Will Selfdestruct

New top story on Hacker News: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part V: Ladders Are Chaos

Video Appears to Show a Tanker Truck Driving Into Minneapolis Protesters

‘We’re Sick and Tired’: Voices From Minneapolis Protests

Symbol of N.Y.C. Unrest: A Burning Police Car

Destructive Power of Despair

What Trump and Toxic Cops Have in Common

As Protests and Violence Spill Over, Trump Shrinks Back

What Is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terror Group?

Police Cars Rammed Protesters. What de Blasio’s Response Tells Us.

What Time Is the SpaceX Arrival at the Space Station? How to Watch

Hear 13 Birds Flourishing in a Newly Quiet New York

Coronavirus Live Updates: G7 Summit Is Postponed

New top story on Hacker News: Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories

New top story on Hacker News: VMware now supports Hyper-V mode

New top story on Hacker News: The Myers diff algorithm that is used in Git (2017)

Trump Postpones G7 Summit and Calls for Russia to Attend

Thousands Protest George Floyd’s Death In N.Y.C.

A Reporter’s Cry on Live TV: ‘I’m Getting Shot! I’m Getting Shot!’

New top story on Hacker News: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor

New top story on Hacker News: Cracking WordPress passwords with 20 lines of Go

New top story on Hacker News: Making a SNES game in 2020 (using modern tools)

New top story on Hacker News: US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high

8pm saturday

Trump Hopes for His Own Booster Shot from SpaceX Rocket Launch

New top story on Hacker News: Nukemap

New top story on Hacker News: Powers of Two (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: Operation of a silicon quantum processor unit cell above one kelvin

Photos From the Protests in 29 Cities Over Racism and Police Violence

Draw a Self-Portrait

George Floyd Protests: A Timeline

Here’s What You Need to Know About Breonna Taylor’s Death

New top story on Hacker News: ESA's Solar Orbiter will pass through comet ATLAS' tail on May 31-June 1

‘Facing the Darkest Hour’: Hong Kong’s Protest Movement in Crisis

friday 10 pm

New top story on Hacker News: Licenses in a Subscription World

Confrontational

Special Episode: The Latest From Minneapolis

New top story on Hacker News: What is emergence?

New top story on Hacker News: World's deepest octopus captured on camera

New top story on Hacker News: Meander: a procedural system for generating maps of rivers that never existed

America Is a Tinderbox

Flynn Discussed Sanctions at Length With Russian Diplomat, Transcripts Show

How the Supreme Court Lets Cops Get Away With Murder

‘The Pain Is Too Intense’: Biden Challenges White Americans

New York City, Battered by Outbreak, Finally Moves Toward Reopening

New top story on Hacker News: SpaceX Starship SN4 launch vehicle prototype explodes after static engine test

New top story on Hacker News: Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

George Floyd Was Pinned Down for Nearly 3 Minutes After He Became Unresponsive, Prosecutors Say

China and the Rhineland Moment

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

A Continent Reopens

Ex-Officer Charged in Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

George Floyd Worked With Officer Charged in His Death

A Justice Dept. Skeptical of Police Abuse Cases Vows to Investigate Floyd Death

Why Are All the Exes Texting?

New top story on Hacker News: OpenSSL 3.0

New top story on Hacker News: What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)

Corrections: May 29, 2020

Quotation of the Day: His Project in Lockdown: A Giant Bird

Tough Nut to Crack

THURSDAY

New top story on Hacker News: GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners

New top story on Hacker News: “GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners”, Brown et al. 2020 (OpenAI)

New top story on Hacker News: 1989 California Medfly Attack

New top story on Hacker News: Deno Is a Browser for Code

New top story on Hacker News: Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function is about to die in SSH

G.O.P. Pressures North Carolina’s Governor on Convention

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today