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New top story on Hacker News: Ultra-rare kaon decay could lead to evidence of new physics

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft Shutting Down Cortana on Multiple Devices, Including iOS and Android

New top story on Hacker News: Designing a Physics Engine

New top story on Hacker News: IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Corrections: Aug. 1, 2020

Quotation of the Day: China Wields Its Security Law to Crush Hong Kong Dissent

Kodak’s chief executive was given stock options. Then the share price spiked 1,000 percent.

New top story on Hacker News: Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19

New top story on Hacker News: Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release

New top story on Hacker News: US to ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday

New top story on Hacker News: Final Ruling Against Patreon Opens Legal Avenue to Defend Against Deplatforming

New top story on Hacker News: Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python

New top story on Hacker News: Flexport Is Hiring in North America, Europe, and Asia

New top story on Hacker News: Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)

Un estudio revela que los niños podrían portar altos niveles de coronavirus

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI API

New top story on Hacker News: ECJ rules US Cloud services fundamentally incompatible with EU Privacy laws

Canada’s Key Role in Creating a Once Awaited Vaccine

Federal Agents Don’t Need Army Fatigues

Kodak’s chief executive got stock options. The next day, the share price spiked 1,000 percent.

Court Frees Michigan Teen Who Was Held for Skipping Online Schoolwork

A Better Year for Trump’s Family Business (Last Year, That Is)

New top story on Hacker News: WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

New top story on Hacker News: A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

New top story on Hacker News: ZSA Moonlander: A next-generation ergonomic keyboard

New top story on Hacker News: Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS

New top story on Hacker News: Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics

New top story on Hacker News: Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first

New top story on Hacker News: Cosmic tango between the small and the large

New top story on Hacker News: Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

New top story on Hacker News: Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states

New top story on Hacker News: Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Molecular Data Scientists to Help Cure Cancer

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach

New top story on Hacker News: The Palatino FAQ (1998)

New top story on Hacker News: Google Earth Timelapse

New top story on Hacker News: Google is removing community contributions from YouTube

New top story on Hacker News: Dragonfly Mini – 2000km mission

New top story on Hacker News: Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years

New top story on Hacker News: Reverse Engineering the PLA Chip in the Commodore 128

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

New top story on Hacker News: GifCities

Republicans and White House at Odds Over Kansas Senate Race

New top story on Hacker News: Opera GX Gaming Browser

New top story on Hacker News: CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects

Ellen DeGeneres Apologizes to Staff Members as WarnerMedia Investigates Show

New top story on Hacker News: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

New top story on Hacker News: Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist's Palette

4 Hong Kong Activists Arrested for Online Posts Under New Security Law

New top story on Hacker News: Querying an RDF triplestore using SPARQL and Relational pipes

New top story on Hacker News: ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search

Casino Calculation

Report: N.B.A.’s Academies in China Abused Athletes

Quotation of the Day: New Resistance in Remote City Confronts Putin

New top story on Hacker News: Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

New top story on Hacker News: iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable

New top story on Hacker News: Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets – including hints of a hidden ocean

New top story on Hacker News: ITER: Make your own tokamak with 3D printing

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists Crack the Mathematical Mystery of Stingless Bees’ Spiral Honeycombs

Justice Ginsburg in the Hospital Again

Corrections: July 30, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) is hiring developers to save medicine to save lives

New top story on Hacker News: A new funding model for open source software

Ashleigh Barty Will Skip U.S. Open

The Tanned Man Has a Green Monster

Ashley Judd Can Sue Harvey Weinstein for Sexual Harassment, Court Rules

One in Three Children Have Unacceptably High Lead Levels, Study Says

Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders

As Trump Undercuts Aid Talks, White House Says Extra Jobless Benefits Will Lapse

Why You’ll See Two Figures for G.D.P. Decline: Very Big, and Huge

More Than 6,300 Coronavirus Cases Have Been Linked to U.S. Colleges

New top story on Hacker News: Bread, How Did They Make It?

N.Y.P.D.’s Use of Unmarked Van in Arrest Draws Parallels to Portland

‘Nobody Likes Me,’ Trump Complains, Renewing Defense of Dubious Science

New top story on Hacker News: Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test

New top story on Hacker News: Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling

New top story on Hacker News: Riding the Rays by Douglas Adams (1992)

Something That Is Bid

Quotation of the Day: Overwhelmed Funeral Homes in South Texas Struggle to Keep Up

Barr Clashes With House Democrats, Defending Responses to Protests and Russia Inquiry

New top story on Hacker News: Jerry (YC S17) is hiring a senior engineer (Toronto, Silicon Valley)

New top story on Hacker News: Australia doubling fees for arts and humanities degrees

New top story on Hacker News: Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

New top story on Hacker News: Uninteresting Places

Remdesivir Could Be in Short Supply. Here’s a Fix.

Minneapolis Police Link ‘Umbrella Man’ to White Supremacy Group

New top story on Hacker News: Stop Abusing Semver

New top story on Hacker News: Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)

‘Nobody Likes Me,’ Trump Complains, Renewing Defense of Dubious Science

Corrections: July 29, 2020

The Director Gina Prince-Bythewood Has Always Had Game

177 Questions to Inspire Writing, Discussion, Debate and Reflection

New top story on Hacker News: Research shows irradiation may dramatically reduce corrosion from molten salts

New top story on Hacker News: Xinjiang is prototype for fully totalitarian state: Taiwan minister

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Would You Survive the Titanic?

New top story on Hacker News: How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?

New top story on Hacker News: Witches of Belvoir 'may have been framed' (2013)

Outs’ Opposites

Georgia Senator Is Criticized for Ad Enlarging Jewish Opponent’s Nose

Florida Man Took Coronavirus Aid and Bought a Lamborghini, Officials Say

Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’: Let’s Discuss

New top story on Hacker News: Draftbit (YC W18) is hiring a Product Manager to build the future of no-code

New top story on Hacker News: The Grace of Manta Rays

Peaceful Protesters With ‘Room for Rage’ Sympathize With Aggressive Tactics

MGM delays live entertainment and expects to lay off workers in that division.

New top story on Hacker News: DoNotPay Unsubscribes You from Spam–and Tries to Get You Paid

New top story on Hacker News: Intel Chief Engineer Ousted

New top story on Hacker News: The Scourge of Hygiene Theater

New top story on Hacker News: A new way to control experimentation with dreams

What Will a Post-Trump G.O.P. Look Like?

‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’ Workplace to Be Reviewed by WarnerMedia

Twilight of the Liberal Right

Trump Announced, Then Canceled, a Yankees Pitch. Both Came as a Surprise.

As Republicans Embrace Cut in Jobless Aid, Divisions Weaken Their Leverage

Hotels are promoting the nostalgia of the family road trip.

New top story on Hacker News: Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy

New top story on Hacker News: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

New top story on Hacker News: Everyone’s a Day Trader Now

New top story on Hacker News: Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Named arguments are coming in PHP 8

Transit Workers Were N.Y.C.’s Pandemic Lifeline. These 3 Paid a Price.

New top story on Hacker News: ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data

New top story on Hacker News: Lost World: Schieks Cave (2009)

No Corrections: July 27, 2020