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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Block the House From Obtaining His Tax Returns

Affirmative action does not directly impact many students at less selective schools.

New top story on Hacker News: Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans

The Ukraine war is slowing the recovery in global employment, a U.N. agency says.

Virginia’s Governor, a Rising Republican Star, Walks a Fine Line

Preferences in Harvard admissions are not limited to race. At least four other applicants get advantages.

New top story on Hacker News: Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (1994)

New top story on Hacker News: A step by step guide on how to become a DevOps engineer

Community Mourns the Rev. Calvin Butts III, an Institution in Harlem

New top story on Hacker News: The ancient Finnish predictor data compressor. Smallest compressor ever?

Brazil’s disputed runoff faces ‘spiritual warfare’ for evangelical voters.

New top story on Hacker News: How I make a living working on SerenityOS

New top story on Hacker News: Metacognitive Note-Taking for Creativity

New top story on Hacker News: FBI Testimony on Hair Analysis Contained Errors in 90% of Cases in OngoingReview (2015)

Halloween Crowd Surge Leaves Dozens Dead in Seoul

New top story on Hacker News: SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS - OFFICIAL

Butternut Squash Everything

What should Twitter users do?

New top story on Hacker News: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

New top story on Hacker News: Wiby.me: curated search engine for content-first suckless sites

Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87

New top story on Hacker News: One-Time Programs

Republicans Have No Inflation Plan

New top story on Hacker News: Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting in The Hague

U.S. Program Aims to Keep Sensitive Weapons in Ukraine

Peltola Squared Off in Debate Against 3 Challengers in Alaska House Race

The Art World Came to Kosovo. What Happens When It Leaves?

New top story on Hacker News: Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in

Choose the Right Book

New top story on Hacker News: Decompilation of Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Review: What Happens in the Theater Before and After the Dance?

Why a Democrat Is Diverging From Party Orthodoxy in New York City

Russia’s unsupported ‘dirty bomb’ claims reverberate in right-wing U.S. communities.

New top story on Hacker News: GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript

Amid backlash, liberal House Democrats retract their call for Biden to seek a cease-fire in Ukraine.

New top story on Hacker News: Build a Passive Radar with Software-Defined Radio

Multiple Palestinians Killed by Israeli Forces in West Bank Raid

‘The Daily’ asks: How did Truss’s downfall happen so rapidly?

New top story on Hacker News: Accelerated forgetting of a trauma event after a single dose of hydrocortisone

New top story on Hacker News: WebKit Features in Safari 16.1

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft’s new $599 Mac Mini-like PC is designed to improve Windows on Arm

New top story on Hacker News: macOS Ventura is now available

New top story on Hacker News: Every Door – OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances

Russian talk show host suspended after saying Ukrainian children should be drowned or burned.

More Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of intentionally slowing grain shipments.

New top story on Hacker News: Security through obscurity is underrated

More Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of intentionally slowing grain shipments.

Martyna Majok on Hoping for Magic, and Wishing for Ghosts

New top story on Hacker News: Programming language comparison by reimplementing the same transit data app

Louis Gigante, Priest Who Led South Bronx Revival, Dies at 90

Hurricane Roslyn to Hit Mexico as a Major Storm

New top story on Hacker News: Leaving the Cloud

New top story on Hacker News: Review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Professional

New top story on Hacker News: A tank that could fly into battle

The Three Blunders of Joe Biden

New top story on Hacker News: Apparently you cannot have the Kanye interview on Google Drive now

New top story on Hacker News: Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged

New top story on Hacker News: If a Tree Falls in a City

Recipes You’ll Crave

Did You Start Your Career During the Pandemic?

Giorgia Meloni Gets Go-Ahead for New Italian Government

New top story on Hacker News: Freeman Dyson and me

5 Signs That You Might Have Hearing Loss

New top story on Hacker News: The Commodordion

Relentless Rise in Interest Rates Looms Over Another Volatile Week for Markets

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

New top story on Hacker News: 'Wobbling black hole' most extreme example ever detected

Memes accompanied Liz Truss’s rise, and helped propel her fall.

New top story on Hacker News: How to check if any word is zero

‘Descendant’ Review: The Fates of a Ship and its Captives

New top story on Hacker News: NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation

New top story on Hacker News: The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’

E.V. Bonanza Flows to Red States That Denounce Biden Climate Policies

New top story on Hacker News: Bespoke Silicon Rattles Chip Design Ecosystem

New top story on Hacker News: The Soviet Union’s Nuclear Icebreakers

New top story on Hacker News: Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles

Review: Seven Dancers Step Into the Rhythm of a Moroccan Night

In Documents Review, Special Master Tells Trump Team to Back Up Privilege Claims

New top story on Hacker News: An Accident at SpaceX

‘No somos todos iguales’: 10 votantes latinos hablan de los puntos fuertes del Partido Republicano

The Fed, Staring Down Two Big Choices, Charts an Aggressive Path

‘Documentary Now!’ Review: The Comfort We’ve Been Waiting For

Danny Meyer’s Roman Restaurant, Reopens as Maialino (vicino)

Not Just a Big Fish, but Perhaps the Biggest Bony Fish Ever

New top story on Hacker News: Semgrep: Writing quick rules to verify ideas

Nigeria Floods Kill Hundreds and Displace Over a Million

New top story on Hacker News: Alpine Linux Minimalist Desktop

New top story on Hacker News: Can We All Just Admit React Hooks Were a Bad Idea?

Diary of a Spelling Bee Fanatic

Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance to Face Off Monday in Second Debate