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PM-covid-update

New top story on Hacker News: Pynguin – Allow developers to generate Python unit tests automatically

New top story on Hacker News: Why are enterprise systems so terrible?

New top story on Hacker News: Caught in the Study Web

Corrections: June 1, 2021

Quotation of the Day: Shops Along Ponte Vecchio Longingly Wait for Tourists

How Do Animals Safely Cross a Highway? Take a Look.

The coronavirus variant discovered in India has a new name: Delta.

New top story on Hacker News: More computer jobs than San Francisco

New top story on Hacker News: Why have cameras and lenses become so expensive?

With the Candlestick in the Study

简报：中国迎来“三孩”时代；低出生率推动关注未婚妈妈困境

Illinois Lawmakers Bar Police From Using Deception When Interrogating Minors

New top story on Hacker News: The Anxiety of Influencers

New top story on Hacker News: Chinese ‘Artificial Sun’ experimental fusion reactor sets world record

New top story on Hacker News: What every programmer should know about memory [pdf]

Serena Williams Wins in the First Round at the French Open

Glum to Gleeful, Israeli Media React to Possible End of Netanyahu Era

Con castillos inflables y granadas, las pandillas debilitan el control de Maduro en Caracas

A Shocking Exit and a Sad Day for Tennis

2021 French Open: What to Watch on Tuesday

Media Groupthink and the Lab-Leak Theory

After Dramatic Walkout, a New Fight Looms Over Voting Rights in Texas

Celtics Fan Arrested After Nets’ Kyrie Irving Nearly Hit By Bottle

PM-covid-update

New top story on Hacker News: In Mexico, cartels are hunting down police at their homes

New top story on Hacker News: The Myth of the Olympics (2004)

Yankees Are Swept in Detroit for First Time in 21 Years

The Copa América soccer tournament won’t be played in Argentina, where the virus is raging.

New top story on Hacker News: Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado

New top story on Hacker News: NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report

New top story on Hacker News: Returns to Scale in Broken Windows

简报：广州疫情发酵封锁街区；台湾干旱加剧节水生活成常态

New top story on Hacker News: I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine

The Internet’s Favorite Catalog of Weird Places Rewrites History

Seattle Storm Coach Dan Hughes Retires Midseason

New top story on Hacker News: TermPair: Terminal sharing with AES-GCM 128 bit end-to-end encryption

New top story on Hacker News: The New York Times Uses the Dark Patterns It Derides

New top story on Hacker News: Uber charges driver for completing a 13-mile fare

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

New top story on Hacker News: Daniel Stenberg: curl doesn't qualify for TravisCI free tier

New top story on Hacker News: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

Chipping Away at Democracy

The Veterans Who Bury Their Own

Facing Elimination, the Knicks Must Find Another Gear

Think Your Weekend Plans Were Ruined? Try Being a Mayoral Candidate.

Corrections: May 30, 2021

Reassess Your Spending and Saving

Atlanta Outfielder Is Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges

7 Presumed Dead After Plane Crashes Into Tennessee Lake, Officials Say

Transport Yourself With a Literary Escape This Summer

A Nashville hat store sold ‘Not Vaccinated’ Star of David patches.

New top story on Hacker News: Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls

Reset Your Boundaries, Online and Off

Road Trips and Reconnecting: What You’re Looking Forward to This Summer

A Farewell From ‘At Home’

Slip (and Slide) Onto a Water Toy in Your Backyard

Make The World Better With One Of These Nine Ideas

Become an Outdoor Scientist

New top story on Hacker News: GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG

New top story on Hacker News: Firesign Theatre’s ‘Dope Humor of the Seventies’

New top story on Hacker News: What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884)

New top story on Hacker News: Scottish Café

New top story on Hacker News: Dark Patterns Hall of Shame

New top story on Hacker News: New York’s Hyphenated History

New top story on Hacker News: The pandemic revives interest in a morbid French financial scheme

New top story on Hacker News: How Did Chop Suey Become a Staple of Chinese American Cuisine?

New top story on Hacker News: Joseph Weizenbaum’s Original ELIZA

Island Residents Protest at the Willows Inn After Workplace Allegations

Our Digital Pasts Weren’t Supposed to Be Weaponized Like This

Can You Hear Me Now, in the Hamptons?

New top story on Hacker News: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

New top story on Hacker News: WASM powered Jupyter (notebook) running in the browser

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon offers 'wellness chamber' for stressed staff

U.S. to Reimpose Sanctions on Belarus Over Forced Plane Landing

New top story on Hacker News: Tab (YC W15) Is Hiring Junior Developers (London, UK)

New top story on Hacker News: Yamaha MOTOROiD

New top story on Hacker News: Alphabet moonshot Loon is jolted by layoffs

New top story on Hacker News: Making the hard problem of consciousness easier

New top story on Hacker News: Apple’s Auto Layout for JavaScript

Big Setbacks Propel Oil Giants Toward a ‘Tipping Point’

As the Hamptons Booms, a New World of Luxury Problems

Is the Montauk Party Over?

Desperately Seeking Lifeguards for Hamptons Pools

A Week of Big Blows for Big Oil

New top story on Hacker News: Wrigley and others are suing over look-alike THC treats

New top story on Hacker News: The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection

New top story on Hacker News: How peculiar it is: on Edward Gorey

New top story on Hacker News: Why Is JRuby Slow?

New top story on Hacker News: Greywing (YC W21) Is Hiring (Remote) Front End Lead Engineers

New top story on Hacker News: What’s Wrong with Bob Dylan’s Biographers?

New top story on Hacker News: Berkeley Lab Debuts Perlmutter, World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer

U.N. Rights Council to Investigate Israeli-Palestinian Violence

Intelligence officials told the White House there is unexamined evidence on the origins of the virus.

New top story on Hacker News: The history of lab leaks

New top story on Hacker News: Please, Think Critically About College Admissions

简报：香港再度禁止六四烛光晚会；美国据信掌握未经审阅的新冠起源情报