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New top story on Hacker News: A Bit About Byte Magazine: The Premier Technical Journal of Its Time

New top story on Hacker News: Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

Evelyn Fox Keller, Who Turned a Feminist Lens on Science, Dies at 87

A Prime Legacy for Feinstein: The Torture Report on Terrorism Suspects

European Central Bank Is Experimenting With a New Tool: A.I.

Trump’s Sprawling Legal Defense Effort Comes Under Strain

Judge Affirms Pay Raise for Food Delivery Workers in New York

How a Prayer Meeting Split Israeli Jews on Their Holiest Day

What’s in Our Queue? ‘Rough Diamonds’ and More

New top story on Hacker News: The Tao of Programming

Biden Administration Warns That Government Shutdown Could Disrupt Air Travel

16 Dishes to Make for Someone Going Through a Hard Time

New top story on Hacker News: J. G. Ballard’s Brilliant, “Not Good” Writing

WNYC Parent to Cut 12% of Work Force

New top story on Hacker News: Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy

Fox News Announces a Newsom and DeSantis Debate in November

Canadian Labor Union Votes to Ratify Contract With Ford

New top story on Hacker News: In 1873, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis

Canadian Labor Union Votes to Ratify Contract With Ford

As Trump Prosecutions Move Forward, Threats and Concerns Increase

New top story on Hacker News: A Beginner's Guide to Neural Mechanisms

New top story on Hacker News: The vital art of talking to strangers

Zach Bryan’s Melancholy Bon Iver Duet, and 9 More New Songs

Tiny Memoir Contest for Students: Write a 100-Word Personal Narrative

Jango Edwards, Clown Who Challenged His Art Form, Dies at 73

Sufjan Stevens Says He Lost Ability to Walk From Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Burberry Street or Bond Street? Fashion Week Stunt Sows Confusion

New top story on Hacker News: Mysteries of the Court of Miracles

Climate Protesters March in New York City

New top story on Hacker News: Get a Rabbit: Book reviews about statistics

U.S. and Chinese Officials Meet in Malta to Discuss Ukraine and Other Flashpoints

Letter Found in Vatican Archives Confirms Church Was Told About Death Camps

New top story on Hacker News: Birth Order (1999) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Formatting Text in C++: The Old and the New Ways

Police Questioning Person in Suspected Opioid Death at Bronx Day Care

Are Men Obsessed With the Roman Empire? Yes, Say Men.

Six Takeaways From Romney’s Tea-Spilling Biography

Len Chandler, an Early Fixture of the Folk Revival, Dies at 88

Pennsylvania Fugitive Has Been Trained for Survival, His Mother Says

New top story on Hacker News: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

Google’s lawyer says the government is trying to force people to use ‘inferior products.’

Fashion Tribes of New York

Alibaba’s Boss Steps Aside

New top story on Hacker News: Linux 6.6 WQ Change May Help AMD CPUs and Other Systems with Multiple L3 Caches

Here’s how to help victims of the earthquake.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Productonboarding.com – Mobbin for SaaS product onboarding

Measurements of the earthquake’s precise strength could shift in the coming days.

Manchin Mulls His Political Future, Keeping Washington Guessing

News Analysis: North Korea finds new leverage in the war in Ukraine.

Top French Court Upholds Abaya Ban in Schools

New top story on Hacker News: The Skiatron and Early Dark Trace CRTs

Trump’s Next Defamation Trial Will Skip to What Damages He Should Pay

New top story on Hacker News: Hackers Selling Hacked Police Emails to Request User Data from TikTok, Facebook

Cuba asegura que Rusia quiere reclutar a sus ciudadanos para luchar en Ucrania

Roy Lichtenstein and Irving Blum: They Go Way Back

New top story on Hacker News: Red lights over the Pacific – August 2014 (2014)

Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make Computers More Human, Dies at 72

Burning Man: todo lo que hay que saber del festival afectado por lluvias

Nathan Louis Jackson, Writer for the Theater and TV, Dies at 44

New top story on Hacker News: A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit

Florida’s Congressional Map Illegally Hurt Black Voters, Judge Rules

Jimmy Buffett Was More Than Beaches and Booze

New top story on Hacker News: In-memory vs. disk-based DB: Why do you need a larger than memory architecture?

New top story on Hacker News: Restarting macOS apps automatically on crash

Bill Richardson, Champion of Americans Held Overseas, Dies at 75

New top story on Hacker News: Pysentation – The Python Presentation

New top story on Hacker News: ‘Peanuts,’ Charles Schulz, and the state that started it all

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

Hard Right Injects Immigration Into Spending Fight, Raising Shutdown Fears