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People with Omicron are less likely to need hospitalization, U.K. report finds.

Earthy Mushrooms, Bold Peppers

New top story on Hacker News: What If?: New Insight into the Friendship of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot

Under the Radar Theater Festival Canceled as Omicron Surges

New top story on Hacker News: List of games that Buddha would not play

How to help victims of the wildfires.

How to Plan a Veggie New Year’s Eve

New top story on Hacker News: Chasing After Carbon Nanotube FETs

Caseloads Spike as Omicron Spreads

New top story on Hacker News: An mRNA-based anti-tick vaccine catches ticks red-handed

New top story on Hacker News: SQL language proposal: JOIN FOREIGN

New top story on Hacker News: Germany: Data retention to be abolished once and for all

New top story on Hacker News: How Sber Built ruDALL-E

F.D.A. Plans to Allow 12- to 15-Year-Olds to Receive Pfizer Boosters

Fearing a mistrial because of Omicron’s spread, judge extends jury’s hours in Ghislaine Maxwell trial.

Four Smithsonian museums are among those shuttering amid Omicron staff shortages.

New top story on Hacker News: GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”

New top story on Hacker News: Features of a dream programming language

2021: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics

New top story on Hacker News: Apple gives top engineers bonuses up of $180k to curtail defections to Meta[..]

Inspired by Murano, Glassware Goes Wild

The C.D.C. significantly lowers its estimate of Omicron’s prevalence nationwide.

Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters

Sharon Gless Admires Eddie Redmayne and L.A.’s Union Station

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ will close on Broadway as Covid takes its toll.

J.D. Crowe, Banjo Virtuoso and Bluegrass Innovator, Dies at 84

New top story on Hacker News: Midwest Developer

‘El peor escenario es que todo se seque’: Chile discute su nueva Constitución, mientras enfrenta el cambio climático

New top story on Hacker News: Experimenting with brain-computer interfaces in JavaScript

Many universities, citing the Omicron surge, push start dates back or move to online instruction.

Fears of Omicron’s Rapid Spread Are Tempered by Signs of Milder Illness

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ will close on Broadway as Covid takes its toll.

Adele’s Christmas Boost Gives ‘30’ a Fifth Straight Week at No. 1

How to Improve Nursing Home Care

Sweeping private-sector vaccine mandate goes into effect in N.Y.C.

New top story on Hacker News: Speedcabling

New top story on Hacker News: Woody Allen and His Typewriter (2011) [video]

I’ve Spent 25 Years as a Joan Didion Thief

New top story on Hacker News: Regression with the C64

Arkansas governor tells Biden that federal government’s purchase of rapid tests could limit state solutions.

Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother?

New top story on Hacker News: Using BeOS on a Power Mac (2001)

Fauci warns against complacency amid data that Omicron causes milder illness

New top story on Hacker News: Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

New top story on Hacker News: Gene Therapy for a Failing Heart

New top story on Hacker News: Tenacity, the Art of Integration, and the Key to a Flexible Mind

New top story on Hacker News: Anti-LaTeX, Pro-Word paper corrections for “sizing and placement of the figures” (2015)

New top story on Hacker News: Your Next Mac

A city's pandemic politics reveal a wider rupture.

Two more members of the K-pop band BTS test positive for the coronavirus.

Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss?

New top story on Hacker News: Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic

New top story on Hacker News: Typejuice: Docs generator for .d.ts files inspired by godoc

Is It Safe to Have a New Year’s Eve Party?

New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to the Sam Text Editor

As Russian Threat Looms, Ukraine’s Government Is No Laughing Matter

New top story on Hacker News: Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes

New top story on Hacker News: JavaScript for Impatient Programmers

‘Christmas can be hard’ amid loss, Queen Elizabeth says in her annual message.

Sardi’s, Broadway’s iconic watering hole, is back, just in time for Omicron show closures.

New top story on Hacker News: Joan Didion has died

As Hindu Extremists Call for Killing of Muslims, India’s Leaders Keep Silent

New top story on Hacker News: Riskbrew – discover and prepare for the brewing financial storm

Group Raises $20 Million to Preserve ‘Lost’ Brontë Library

New top story on Hacker News: Statistical Imaginaries: An ode to responsible data science

Bosses Have a New Headache: How Long Should Sick Workers Isolate?

Lazy Lasagna

Democrats Say They Are Serious About State Elections. But Are They Too Late?

A Painting of George Floyd Roils Catholic University

Edward D. Shames, Last Living ‘Band of Brothers’ Officer, Dies at 99

Our Favorite House Stories of 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Natalie: An early-stage Ruby implementation that compiles to C++

11 New Books We Recommend This Week

Three Recipe Lessons From 2021

New top story on Hacker News: SpeedCrunch

5 Desperate Days: Escaping Kabul

The variant is motivating Americans to get boosters but not bringing more initial vaccinations, a poll finds.

President Biden extends freeze of federal student loan repayments until May 1.

New top story on Hacker News: Three Minor Features in Go 1.18

New top story on Hacker News: FDA authorizes first antiviral pill for Covid, Paxlovid

New top story on Hacker News: The Io Language

New top story on Hacker News: How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes

New top story on Hacker News: What is RF monitor-mode and why does it matter?

New top story on Hacker News: Myths about the brain

A Soup That Tastes Like Being Home for the Holidays

New top story on Hacker News: The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse

Obamacare sign-ups reach a record as the pandemic rocks employer-provided coverage.