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Chemnitz protests: Prison officer admits leaking Iraqi's arrest warrant

Will Others Follow Microsoft's Lead on Paid Parental Leave?

Here's How Fast That Jumping Tesla Was Traveling

August's Best Gear: From Tiny Laptops to Big Phones

New Ejection Seat Makes Rocketing Out of a B-2 Somehow Safe

New top story on Hacker News: My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb

New top story on Hacker News: Ten cargo ships a year sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies

India winking song: Actress not blasphemous, court rules

Who is getting dressed up to watch a goat race?

New top story on Hacker News: Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

New top story on Hacker News: Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn

New top story on Hacker News: Can Beethoven send takedown requests?

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists make a touch tablet that rolls and scrolls

Aretha Franklin: Four Tops lead Detroit tribute concert before funeral

China targets video gaming to tackle myopia in children

New top story on Hacker News: Diffbot launches AI-powered knowledge graph of 1T facts

Clock changes: EU backs ending daylight saving

China targets video gaming to tackle myopia in children

New top story on Hacker News: The pain that minimal version selection solves

New top story on Hacker News: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?

New top story on Hacker News: When Science Was Big (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: Remote Mac Exploitation via Custom URL Scheme

Cambodia jails Australian filmmaker found guilty of espionage

New top story on Hacker News: Discerning the Out-Of-Order Advantage: Is It Speculation or Dynamism? (2013) [pdf]

Man charged over threats against reporters who criticised Trump

Astronauts tackle air leak on International Space Station

New top story on Hacker News: Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act

New top story on Hacker News: Worst-case complexity of TimSort finally unveiled

New top story on Hacker News: Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing

New top story on Hacker News: An entrepreneur says 32-hour weeks ‘killed work ethic’ at his startup

New top story on Hacker News: BlackRock voted to replace Tesla's Musk with independent chairman

New top story on Hacker News: On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher

New top story on Hacker News: Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?

New top story on Hacker News: Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient

New top story on Hacker News: RevenueCat (YC S18) is hiring our first SDK engineer

New top story on Hacker News: How much countries spend in R&D

New top story on Hacker News: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

New top story on Hacker News: Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech

New top story on Hacker News: San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

New top story on Hacker News: 'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game

New top story on Hacker News: Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work

New top story on Hacker News: A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector

New top story on Hacker News: “Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

New top story on Hacker News: My Own Private CDN

New top story on Hacker News: Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response

New top story on Hacker News: The Man Who Walked Backward

New top story on Hacker News: Krypton: phone-based U2F Authenticator

New top story on Hacker News: Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job

New top story on Hacker News: Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

New top story on Hacker News: People Hacks for Technical Leads

New top story on Hacker News: CLI: Improved

New top story on Hacker News: The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks

New top story on Hacker News: Relationship Between Practice and Performance in Sports: A Meta-Analysis (2016) [pdf]

Trump threatens to pull US out of World Trade Organization

Australia abuse inquiry: Catholic Church rejects call to overhaul confession

Astronauts tackle air leak on International Space Station

UN 'alarmed' by reports of China's mass detention of Uighurs

Gérard Depardieu: French actor accused of rape

John McCain: Sarah Palin 'excluded from his funeral'

Bobi Wine: Uganda's pop star MP 're-arrested at airport'

Argentina raises rates as peso plummets

Florida sheriff backs Uber driver who killed 'goofball'

Hayabusa-2: Japan sets date for spacecraft's asteroid touchdown

Stéphane Pauwels arrest: Football presenter charged over armed robbery

McCain and Biden's long friendship

The power of 'pink money' in India

Colorado police tell handcuffed journalist: 'Act like a lady'

Tablet bends 'like ancient scroll'

8K TVs unveiled by Samsung and LG at Ifa tech show

New York renamed 'Jewtropolis' in map hack

Acer unveils new gaming cockpit and other tech news

Celebgate hacker jailed over Jennifer Lawrence hack

Bye bye loneliness

New top story on Hacker News: How TripAdvisor Changed Travel

New top story on Hacker News: The FMV Pipeline of “Full Throttle Remastered”

Why California's Privacy Law Won't Hurt Facebook or Google

Is It Possible to Find Love Without Dating Apps?

Firefox's New Browser Will Keep Brands From Stalking You

The Lego Bugatti Chiron Goes 18 MPH (and Is *Made of *Lego*)

San Francisco Is Bringing Back Banned Electric Scooters—With Limits

What Happens When Facebook Mistakenly Blocks Local News Stories

Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach

Lenovo's Yoga Book C930 Redefines a Travel Laptop

Crispr Halted Muscular Dystrophy in Dogs. Are Humans Next?

Google Has Made The First Multilingual Virtual Assistant

*Donut County* Is 2018's Most Delightfully Madcap Puzzle Game

Haunting Images of the World's Most Polluted Environments

The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest

Why a plane is dropping trout into a lake from above

Tablet bends 'like ancient scroll'

How Eto'o helped homeless ex-Cameroon captain

Why were there so many serial killers in the 1980s?

Why Australia is talking about a French au pair

Movie madness: Why Chinese cinemas are empty but full

Iosif Kobzon: Russians mourn 'Soviet Sinatra'

Why India activist arrests have kicked up a storm

New top story on Hacker News: Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017

New top story on Hacker News: LEGO built a life size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Multi-part guide on web and api access control (part 1)

New top story on Hacker News: Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

How Big Can A Solar-Powered Drone Be?

New top story on Hacker News: Emails while commuting 'should count as work'

New top story on Hacker News: Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley

Google says Trump's bias claims are 'not true'

Gay dating app Grindr to sell shares

Dutroux murders: Belgian child-killer's letter angers parents

Macron: French 'Gauls' resistant to change, unlike 'Lutheran' Danes

Burst dam floods 85 villages in central Myanmar

Kanye West finally answers Jimmy Kimmel's Donald Trump question

New top story on Hacker News: When Cancer Was Conquerable

I'm Not Here to Make Friends: The Rise and Fall of the Supercut Video

Jaguar’s I-Pace Electric SUV Demands a New Kind of Car Review

New top story on Hacker News: Googles Titan Security Key is now available