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New top story on Hacker News: Cy384/ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9

New top story on Hacker News: Comma Three Devkit

New top story on Hacker News: The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles

New top story on Hacker News: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

New top story on Hacker News: The Bitcoin mine with its own power plant

New top story on Hacker News: Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS and libuv

New top story on Hacker News: Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)

Delta Variant Drives Global Virus Surge, W.H.O. Warns

‘It’s Nowhere Near Over’: A Beach Town’s Gust of Freedom, Then a U-turn

San Marino becomes the smallest country to win an Olympic medal.

New top story on Hacker News: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

New top story on Hacker News: Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases

New top story on Hacker News: One-Thousand Year-Old Plants

New top story on Hacker News: Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf]

How to Put a Stop to Russia’s New Form of Organized Crime

How Strong Is Trump’s Grip on the G.O.P.?

Here’s what happened on Saturday at the Tokyo Games.

New top story on Hacker News: Longest Possible Domain Name

New top story on Hacker News: A Brief History of Freud's Love Affair with Cocaine

New top story on Hacker News: Who Will Pay to Protect Tech Giants from Rising Seas?

New top story on Hacker News: Amazonian moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds

¿El escritor de ‘El código Da Vinci’ tiene un secreto?

Frenchy Cannoli, Ardent Evangelist for Hashish, Dies at 64

New top story on Hacker News: Yarn 3.0.0

New top story on Hacker News: Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real

New top story on Hacker News: What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose

This Vegetarian Menu Brings Home the Best of the Market

‘The Jetpack Guy Is Back’: Los Angeles Sighting Draws an Inquiry, Again

Treasury must turn over Trump’s taxes to Congress, the Justice Dept. says.

Poetry and Politics, HIPAA and Other Letters to the Editor

New York City Awards $3 Million for Latino and Puerto Rican Theater

Wonking Out: Keynesian Republicans, Supply-Side Democrats?

Repression, Obsession, Murder

The U.S. government will pay for the testing Biden ordered for unvaccinated federal workers.

The Pleasure of Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Face

Democrats scramble to save the federal eviction freeze, as frustration with Biden mounts.

Inside a Covid I.C.U., Hopes Fade as Patients Surge In

This Shrimp Recipe Will Bring You Joy

As Missouri faces a Delta-driven surge, some people are trying to get vaccinated in secret, a doctor says.

L Brands Agrees to New Policies Tied to Sexual Harassment Claims

Trump pressed Justice Dept. to declare the election results corrupt, notes show.

Here’s who is hospitalized for Covid in New York City.

Vaccinated people may spread the virus, though rarely, the C.D.C. says.

Overlooked No More: Janet Sobel, Whose Art Influenced Jackson Pollock

Vaccinated People May Spread the Virus, Though Rarely, C.D.C. Reports

Today in On Tech: Credit to tech’s pandemic leadership.

A poultry producer and four executives are charged in a chicken price-fixing case.

Activision, Facing Internal Turmoil, Grapples With #MeToo Reckoning

Israel will give third Covid vaccine shots to those over 60.

Masks are mandated indoors in Washington, D.C., as localities grapple with revised federal guidance.

The Senate unanimously passes a $2.1 billion emergency spending bill to secure the Capitol and aid Afghan refugees.

Italy’s Mr. Fix-It Tries to Fix the Country’s Troubled Justice System — and Its Politics, Too

What’s in Our Queue? Mario and More

New top story on Hacker News: What even is data mesh

New top story on Hacker News: ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking

New top story on Hacker News: Robinhood will fail again: stock trading is broken

New top story on Hacker News: The Playdate store is now open

New top story on Hacker News: Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition

Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds

Graham Company Announces Season of In-Person Performances

How to Control Mosquitoes in Your Backyard or Patio

Robinhood’s stock falls after its debut on the public stock market.

What’s Next for New York, a Times Virtual Event

Today in On Tech: Big Tech has outgrown this planet.

Georgia Republicans edge toward a takeover of elections in Fulton County, the state’s largest.

At The Ranch in Montauk, Plenty of Room for Art and Horses

‘Sabaya’ Review: Light Breaking Through Darkness

Albert Bandura, Leading Psychologist of Aggression, Dies at 95

At Least 80 Killed as Flash Floods Destroy Village in Afghanistan

Khamenei Adds to Doubts on Iran Nuclear Deal Talks

This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint

Tick, Tick, Tick: Athletes’ Grueling Wait for an Olympic Moment

Watch as Jerome Powell takes questions after the Fed leaves rates unchanged.