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New top story on Hacker News: A Field Guide to Japanese Mojibake

New York City firefighters are calling out sick as a vaccine mandate looms.

What to Watch in the Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Texas Abortion Law

G20 leaders’ climate positions are met with frustration.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Use your iPhone's camera to see any photo on your wall

New top story on Hacker News: How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)

New top story on Hacker News: Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use

New top story on Hacker News: The Next Big Challenge for Data Is Organizational

A Dangerous Legal Battle Over Vaccine Mandates Will Continue

Metaverse? Are You Kidding Me?!

What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong?

Saying Yes to Baseball Meant Leaving Football Behind

He Brokered Apartheid’s End. Can He Save South Africa’s Liberation Party?

New top story on Hacker News: Mind Grenade

New top story on Hacker News: Fastmail Seems to Be Down

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Will there ever be a vendor agnostic GPU interface?

New top story on Hacker News: Pentium on a 386 Motherboard

The F.D.A. is assessing whether the Moderna vaccine can cause heart problems in adolescents.

The Places in New York City Where Republicans Still Stand a Chance

Biden announces new steps to untangle supply chain

G20 Nations Agree to New Limits on Coal-Burning Power Plants

New York’s Irish Arts Center Upgrades to a ‘Flagship Hub’

White House reaches a deal to roll back European steel and aluminum tariffs.

U.S. Agrees to Roll Back European Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

High Tidal Surges Bring Floods to the Mid-Atlantic Region

He Ran the First N.Y.C. Marathon. Next Week, He’ll Run the 50th.

Photos from Day 1 of the summit.

Louise Slade, Scientist Who Studied the Molecules in Food, Dies at 74

New top story on Hacker News: Biometric and behavioural mass surveillance in EU Member States

New top story on Hacker News: Young people are leaving their jobs in record numbers and not going back

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why do developers blog on Medium while it's paywalled?

New top story on Hacker News: Where do your eyes go?

The COP26 Climate Talks Are Opening. Here’s What to Expect.

How I Became a Science Experiment

Rome confronts its own messy issues as world leaders gather.

Gulf States Withdraw Ambassadors to Lebanon Over Criticism of Yemen War

More New York City workers get Covid shots as deadline nears, but tensions remain.

Trump Lawyer Blamed Pence for Violence as Rioters Stormed Capitol

New top story on Hacker News: Colony was a rare dystopia that tried something new (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: No, the Metaverse Is Not Bullshit

New top story on Hacker News: Ancient Gold Burial Mask Found to Be Painted with Human Blood

Pauline Bart, Sociologist Who Mapped Women’s Challenges, Dies at 91

Los Angeles police union sues city over details of Covid-19 vaccination mandate.

As world leaders gather for cooperation, a Russian pipeline reverses flow.

Union for John Deere Workers Reaches Tentative Deal to End 2-Week Strike

Vaccination offers more protection against Covid-19 than previous infection, a C.D.C. study suggests.

‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate)

Review: Choreographic Skeletons From a Lost Pandemic Time

New top story on Hacker News: Interpreting A/B test results: false positives and statistical significance

New top story on Hacker News: Avoiding race conditions when using errgroup contexts in Go

New top story on Hacker News: Toyota unveils its first all-electric car: the bZ4X

New top story on Hacker News: Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data

New top story on Hacker News: An Annoying Problem

Enrollment in N.Y.C. public schools declined by 50,000 since the start of the pandemic.

What Is Day of the Dead, the Mexican Holiday?

Queen Elizabeth Urged by Doctors to Rest at Least 2 Weeks

Biden Administration Tries Again to End Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy

When a Wheelchair Becomes a Magical Chariot

Letitia James Declares Her Candidacy for N.Y. Governor

New top story on Hacker News: Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments

Two Children’s Books Offer Hope for the Environment

Atlanta’s Sidelined Superstar Can Picture Himself Out There

DNA Confirms Sitting Bull Was South Dakota Man’s Great-Grandfather

The Weekender

Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison

New top story on Hacker News: Zales.com Leaked Customer Data Like Sister Firms Jared, Kay Jewelers Did in 2018

New top story on Hacker News: Meta: A Social Technology Company

New top story on Hacker News: IPv6 Progress Top Sites 2021

New top story on Hacker News: The Fluoride Wars Rage On

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: FlakyBot – identify and suppress flaky tests

Geraldo Rivera criticizes his Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson.

Oakland educators approve a plan to transfer or unenroll students who are not vaccinated by January.

Weekly Health Quiz: Problem Foods, Flu and Covid Boosters

China’s New Climate Pledge Changes Little, in Bad Omen for Global Talks

Syringe shortages could be yet another obstacle in Africa’s Covid vaccination efforts, the W.H.O. warns.

New top story on Hacker News: What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook Renames to Meta

New top story on Hacker News: Zappos CEO’s final months describe drug-addicted psychosis in court documents

New top story on Hacker News: I created a front page Show HN project CodingFont.com with low code

New top story on Hacker News: High-Level Synthesis for RISC-V

What to Know About the Mississippi Abortion Law Challenging Roe v. Wade

Activision Blizzard commits to improving diversity and workplace culture.