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New top story on Hacker News: That’s Big Sir to You (SuperDuper, Big Sur)

New top story on Hacker News: Semgrep: JavaScript browser security concat bypass not detected

New top story on Hacker News: Spotify wins patent to surveil users’ emotions to recommend music

New top story on Hacker News: James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere

No Corrections: Feb. 1, 2021

Chicago delays school reopenings by a day as teachers edge toward strike.

New top story on Hacker News: Uf2: USB Flashing Format

Survey Says: Never Tweet

Review: Seeking a Date but Finding Hypocrisy in ‘Hi, Are You Single?’

Rochester Police Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl, Footage Shows

Trump Names Two Members of Impeachment Defense Team

Andrew Brooks, who developed a coronavirus spit test, has died at 51.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A retrainable subtitle synchronizer you can now build your own

New top story on Hacker News: AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching

Coronavirus

Myanmar Leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Is Detained Amid Coup Fears

New top story on Hacker News: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution

Melvin Capital, Squeezed by Its Bets Against GameStop, Lost 53 Percent in January

Effort to Include $15 Minimum Wage in Relief Bill Poses Test for Democrats

If Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn’t Beyond the Pale, Who Is?

77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election

Black Power: Now or Never

Captain Tom raised millions for Britain’s coronavirus response. Now he is hospitalized with Covid-19.

Have a Ball This Super Bowl Sunday

New top story on Hacker News: I work on code search at GitHub – what needs to improve?

PM-virus-fader-update

Downscale Your Super Bowl Spread

Trump Parts Ways With Lead Impeachment Lawyer

Savor a Performance Series and Homemade Pizza

Quotation of the Day: Attacked by a ‘Superspreader’ of Online Smears

New top story on Hacker News: CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs

New top story on Hacker News: RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V

Federal officials pause plan to vaccinate Guantánamo detainees.

Protesters disrupt motorists from entering Dodger Stadium vaccination site.

New top story on Hacker News: MDMA Solo – A practical guide for healing your self [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: ‘Meme stock’ rally rescues AMC theaters from $600M debt

Sundance Diary, Part 3: Documentaries That Don’t Despair

Pentagon Halts Plan to Vaccinate the 40 Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay

New top story on Hacker News: Airwindows – Free VST Plugins for Mac, Windows and Linux

New top story on Hacker News: My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television

Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88

Part of Highway 1 in California Falls Into the Ocean

Product Misplacement

Sylvia Lieber, Creative Kindergarten Teacher, Dies at 102

The variant that emerged in South Africa has been reported in Maryland.

Sonny Fox, Whose ‘Wonderama’ Mixed Fun and Learning, Dies at 95

New top story on Hacker News: Fresh from Ganymede (2020)

France and Germany, alarmed by variants, will restrict incoming travelers.

A Georgia Chicken Town Reels After a Plant Disaster

Coachella music festival is canceled again.

Legal Pressure on Trump Increases With Judge’s Order in Fraud Inquiry

Health Providers Worldwide Welcome Biden Reversal of Anti-Abortion Rule

Biden intelligence briefings to be led by veteran C.I.A. officer, who previously briefed George W. Bush.

Robert Cohan, 95, Dies; Exported Contemporary Dance to Britain

G.O.P. Quiet as Pressure Mounts to Address Lawmaker’s Conspiracy Claims

New top story on Hacker News: Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output

New top story on Hacker News: Europe's Vaccine Disaster

New top story on Hacker News: 1938 vs. 1940 (2018)

Share Your Memories of Someone You Lost to Covid-19

A West Virginia newspaper company is suing Google and Facebook over online ads.

Biden Visits Walter Reed, the Hospital That Treated Both Him and His Son

A ‘Race’ to Vaccinate, After South Africa Variant Is Detected in South Carolina

Why Did the N.Y.P.D. Solve Fewer Crimes Last Year?

Violence in Afghanistan May Delay U.S. Troop Withdrawal

It’s Been 10 Months, and I Still Don’t Know When to Replace My Mask!

For Dreamers, Action Will Speak Louder Than Words

G.M. Announcement Shakes Up U.S. Automakers’ Transition to Electric Cars

Behind the Stock Market’s Wild Ride This Week

Tet Is Full of Traditions, but You Can Have It Your Way