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Jerry Mander, Adman for Radical Causes, Dies at 86

New top story on Hacker News: Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (2016)

After Student’s Suicide, an Elite School Says It Fell ‘Tragically Short’

New top story on Hacker News: The invention of selective breeding was unbelievably late

Biden Calls for Release of U.S. Journalist Detained Abroad

Looking to the Future, Japan Would Say Goodbye to Its Baseball Past

New top story on Hacker News: Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale

New top story on Hacker News: Real Interview Recordings to Help Job Seekers

New top story on Hacker News: BlueSky ToS gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content

New top story on Hacker News: Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop

South Carolina Democrats Elect First Black Woman to Run State Party

Regulators Prepare to Seize and Sell First Republic

New top story on Hacker News: Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)

New top story on Hacker News: Launch Lamini: The LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models as Good as ChatGPT

First Republic’s Shares Slide as Its Fate Remains Uncertain

What Is Bluesky and Why Are People Clamoring to Join It?

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet

These Lego-Like Bricks Make Building a Raised Garden Bed a Snap

New top story on Hacker News: NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer

Daines Endorsement Reflects Senate G.O.P.’s Uneasy Alliance With Trump

Do You Work in a Climate-Focused Job? Tell Us About It.

New top story on Hacker News: The economics and politics of Thomas the Tank Engine (2015)

Determinar el origen de la pandemia es difícil. Prevenirla no debería serlo

New top story on Hacker News: Schools are ditching homework, deadlines in favor of ‘equitable grading’

A ‘Steak’ Dinner With Vegetarians in Mind

New top story on Hacker News: The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control

New top story on Hacker News: Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?

Judge Sentences Trump Allies in ‘We Build the Wall’ Scheme

New top story on Hacker News: What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure

New top story on Hacker News: IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers

Alton H. Maddox Jr., 77, Lawyer in Tawana Brawley Rape Hoax, Dies

New top story on Hacker News: A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning

New top story on Hacker News: Is it possible to guide safely on Everest?

An Early, Early Look at Biden’s 2024 Prospects

New top story on Hacker News: Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2

New top story on Hacker News: After the Lawn

Men in Military Uniforms Killed at Least 60 People, Burkina Faso Says

New top story on Hacker News: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.”) – An Introduction

New top story on Hacker News: Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization

Britain and the Netherlands Agree on a North Sea Power Link

New top story on Hacker News: I’m ready to trade in my electric car

Biden Opens a New Back Door on Immigration

New top story on Hacker News: The largest number representable in 64 bits

New top story on Hacker News: Bing Jail

Some flee Khartoum while others stay and hope to help.

Black Smokers at Center of New York Fight to Ban Menthol Cigarettes

New top story on Hacker News: Binary was invented to weigh wine a century before Leibniz

Will Biden Face a Democratic Challenger?

New top story on Hacker News: How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?

New top story on Hacker News: The Joy of an Empty Brain

Elisabeth Kopp, Swiss Politician Who Made History, Dies at 86

Gail Christian, Trailblazing News Correspondent, Dies at 83

New top story on Hacker News: Fire Mark Zuckerberg

New top story on Hacker News: Dummy Boards: The Fun Figures of the 1600s

The Best of Late Night This Week

New top story on Hacker News: Athens Charter

Biden Has Held the Fewest News Conferences Since Reagan. Any Questions?

The top U.S. defense officials say air defense, not fighter jets, is the allies’ top priority.

New top story on Hacker News: GPT4 killed our little startup

New top story on Hacker News: Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine

Jan. 6 Defendant Opens Fire on Deputies Before Surrender to the F.B.I.

New top story on Hacker News: Weight loss relapse associated with exposure to perfluoroalkylate substances

New top story on Hacker News: The Digital Ludeme Project: methods for the study of ancient board games

Peas and Feta Make Everything Better

New top story on Hacker News: Ptolemy’s Treatise on the Meteoroscope Recovered

Biden Summons Big Donors to Washington as 2024 Campaign Nears

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Makes His White House Run Official

New top story on Hacker News: Street Votes: A proposed response to Ireland's housing crisis

Fox News Remains an Aberration in American Journalism

What Are ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws, and When Do They Apply?

Man Arrested in Killings That Terrorized Manhattan Gay Bars

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu

How Much Did You Spend on Your Solo Vacation?

Roy Rosselló, exintegante de Menudo, afirma que el padre de los hermanos Menendez lo violó

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Review: In ‘Amours (2),’ Love Hurts

The revelations from the case have not hurt Fox News’s ratings.

New top story on Hacker News: Implementers, Solvers, and Finders

‘This is where everyone wants to be’: Des Linden on the meaning of the finish line.

Protest After Homeowner Shoots Black Teenager at Wrong House

New top story on Hacker News: VW, Rivian, Nissan, BMW lose access to U.S. EV tax credits

A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making

New top story on Hacker News: Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

New top story on Hacker News: Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes (2007)

Corrections: April 16, 2023

Review: Contemporary Music Champions Celebrate With the Hits

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter Dies at 99; Built an Empire of Tulle and Satin

New top story on Hacker News: Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models

1 Dead and Nearly 100 Sickened in Fungal Outbreak at Paper Mill

New top story on Hacker News: Generalizations of Fourier Analysis

Who is General Hamdan, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces?

New top story on Hacker News: Two Categories of Journaling

Pressure Mounts on China to Offer Debt Relief to Poor Countries Facing Default

Abortion Pills, the Latest Battleground, Have Been Little Known to Americans

Black Pregnant Women Are Tested More Frequently for Drug Use, Study Suggests