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Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85

Robert Battle on Running Ailey: ‘This Is My Choreography Now’

He Helped St. Louis Land the Rams. He Squeezed the N.F.L. When They Left.

How do you say ‘Omicron’?

U.S. Removes Colombia’s FARC Rebel Group From Terrorist List

New top story on Hacker News: The US C-Band Spectrum Saga, Explained

New top story on Hacker News: Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

New top story on Hacker News: Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air

Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness

The Gator Finds a Place at the Tailgate

Who is Alison Nathan, the judge in the Ghislaine Maxwell case?

Amid Variant Fears, U.K. Discovers Limits to Its Virus Strategy

England announces 13 confirmed Omicron cases, and restrictions tighten.

New top story on Hacker News: Back End Developers on Hackathons Are Not Needed

New top story on Hacker News: AWS Redshift Serverless

New top story on Hacker News: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

Empellón Taqueria Opens an Outpost on the Upper West Side

On the Trans-Atlantic Price Gap

Andrea Bowers: Her Activism Animates Her Art

A Choreographer Gives ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ a Makeover

At the Fashion Awards in London, Mourning and Celebration

November Subscriber Digest

Black Friday sales were up, but reflected the challenges facing retailers.

In Scotland, Serving Halibut for a Better Planet

New top story on Hacker News: The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (2014)

New top story on Hacker News: Breakthrough, PhD student creates a simple, cost-effective laser on silicon

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

Issues raised by two jurors briefly delayed opening statements in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.

Adele Is No. 1 With a Huge Week, but Without a Million in Sales

Lee Elder, Who Broke a Golf Color Barrier, Dies at 87

As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians

De Blasio reminds New Yorkers to wear masks indoors.

New top story on Hacker News: Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi

New top story on Hacker News: The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?

New top story on Hacker News: Why I Have Settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 for AEAD

De Blasio reminds New Yorkers to wear masks indoors.

Ghislaine Maxwell sued Epstein’s estate for legal fees.

Ómicron provoca preocupación, pero es probable que las vacunas sigan funcionando

Biden calls Omicron a ‘cause for concern, not a cause for panic.’

Honduras Election Front-Runner Vows New Era but Is Tied to Past

Hondurans seek a break from graft and despair in an election with repercussions for the United States.

New top story on Hacker News: The truth about turbinates (and sinusitis)

New top story on Hacker News: McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

New top story on Hacker News: Labors of Love: Translations of Dante

‘Papi a la orden’: los candidatos prometen una nueva era, pero están atados al pasado

Los hondureños buscan un alivio de la desesperación en unas elecciones con repercusiones para Estados Unidos

Virgil Abloh, Bold Designer of Men’s Wear, Dies at 41

Elecciones presidenciales en Honduras: ¿qué está en juego hoy?

Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying.

New top story on Hacker News: BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage

New top story on Hacker News: A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K

New top story on Hacker News: The Fuel of Philosophers

New top story on Hacker News: Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience

New top story on Hacker News: The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by

Listen to Stephen Sondheim’s 20 Essential Songs

South Africa, whose scientists detected Omicron, is an outlier on the least vaccinated continent.

Does Omicron cause only mild illness? The jury is still out.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?

New top story on Hacker News: Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit

New top story on Hacker News: Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79

Donors Worry About Fate of Artifacts as Museum on Irish Famine Closes

New top story on Hacker News: Reality shifting: an emergent online daydreaming culture

New top story on Hacker News: Spirituality Shaped Leonard Cohen

New top story on Hacker News: SQLite 3.37 Is Released

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

New top story on Hacker News: Godot Engine – Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)

New top story on Hacker News: 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed

New top story on Hacker News: Moving to Texas

North Carolina’s Furniture Hub Is Booming. What Comes Next?

Alice Waters Helps a Museum Cater to the Tastes of Art Lovers

Republicans Have a Golden Opportunity. They Will Probably Blow It.

New top story on Hacker News: Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf]

A Tale of Culinary Reconciliation, Beside the Eiffel Tower

The Mets Bolster Their Offense With Three Free Agents

‘Company’ Director and Cast Praise Stephen Sondheim

New top story on Hacker News: India tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence

New top story on Hacker News: Web Clipper: save anything on the web to anywhere

New top story on Hacker News: Code with Engineering Playbook

New top story on Hacker News: Pinning in Plain English

Get to Know Sondheim’s Best in These 10 Videos

Stream These 7 Productions That Celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s Work

Democrats Struggle to Energize Their Base as Frustrations Mount

How Austin Became One of the Least Affordable Cities in America

New top story on Hacker News: Games for IBM AS/400

Love Letter: Salmon, Loss and Motherhood

A slow start the morning after a Saints loss.