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Apple Watches owners asked to return devices for repair after update glitch

New top story on Hacker News: China telecom diverted traffic in US and Canada, report finds

New top story on Hacker News: An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook

Los Angeles Must Pay Billions to Adapt—or Slip Into the Sea

Inside Death Café, The Place People Go to Talk About Dying

New top story on Hacker News: Yayoi Kusama: Earth is a Polka Dot (2015) [video]

New top story on Hacker News: The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free

Sylvester Stallone won't face sexual assault charges

China's Five Steps for Recruiting Spies in the US

Calling the Caravan's Migrants "Diseased" Is a Classic Xenophobic Move

Apple's iPads Are Officially More Interesting Than Its MacBooks

Lion Air crash: Indonesian plane search focuses on fuselage

Russia Arkhangelsk blast: Teenager dead at FSB security HQ

Can artificial intelligence help stop religious violence?

The men having penis fillers to boost their self-esteem

Jin Yong: The 'Tolkien of Chinese literature' dies at 94

Kanye West announces he's distancing himself from politics

Australian awarded house in 'bizarre' 20-year squatting case

Russian grammar tsarina targets TV

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why gmail and Facebook websites are so slow and buggy?

New top story on Hacker News: The Internet Will Be the Death of Us

New top story on Hacker News: Why some things are darker when wet (1988)

Cardiff tech firm: 'We'll pay £100k, but can't get staff'

Facebook daily visits growth slows as sales miss forecasts

New top story on Hacker News: Why Democracies Are Turning Against Chinese Influence

New top story on Hacker News: Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees

New top story on Hacker News: How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript

New top story on Hacker News: I Don't Like Notebooks – Joel Grus

Pakistan court clears condemned Christian

Yemen conflict: Mattis and Pompeo urge swift ceasefire

India unveils the world's tallest statue

Brazil: Bolsonaro plans threaten Amazon, say experts

Japan bullet train stops 'scary' safety drills

Pittsburgh shooting: Trump visits synagogue amid protests

Vatican embassy: Human remains found at Rome property

Gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger killed in prison

Denmark accuses Iran of activist murder plot

Father of 'Jihadi Jack' asks Canada to help bring son home

Petra Laszlo: Hungarian camerawoman who kicked migrants is acquitted

Tunis attack: Suicide bomber was jobless graduate

Pittsburgh shooting: Trump visits amid protests

What do American voters care about?

Viola Davis explains why there's a long way to go to eliminate racism

Harry greets NZ audience in six Pacific languages

Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop: Why I'm trying to correct history

Tokyo ticket seller's foreigner fear costs garden thousands

Pharrell orders Donald Trump to stop playing his music

Stray cats housed in washing machines in Portuguese town

Is the Amazon facing new dangers?

Canada's last witch trials: Women accused of fake witchcraft

Letter from Africa: Nigeria - a young country for old men

Trump’s birthright plan: The legality, politics and history

Dutch language besieged by English

Can artificial intelligence help stop religious violence?

Android's under-5s apps have 'unfair and deceptive' ads

New top story on Hacker News: The Evolution of Character Codes 1874-1968 (2012) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Scale AI is hiring engineers to accelerate the development of AI

New top story on Hacker News: My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer

New top story on Hacker News: System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware

New top story on Hacker News: Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Giraffe – Functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F#

New top story on Hacker News: JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works

New top story on Hacker News: Single-page web applications damage businesses?

New top story on Hacker News: The SOS in my Halloween decorations

New top story on Hacker News: Google Home (in)Security

New top story on Hacker News: October 21 post-incident analysis

New top story on Hacker News: iPhones are allergic to helium

New top story on Hacker News: Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm

New top story on Hacker News: We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them

New top story on Hacker News: Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole

New top story on Hacker News: Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients'

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work

New top story on Hacker News: ‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails

New top story on Hacker News: Designing a new funding structure for bootstrappers

New top story on Hacker News: Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: How to Catch When Proxies Lie [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice

New top story on Hacker News: Against the naming of fungi (2013)

New top story on Hacker News: Analyzing the Walmart site performance

New top story on Hacker News: Massive octopus nursery found in deep sea

New top story on Hacker News: The Last Format

New top story on Hacker News: The politics of artificial intelligence: an interview with Louise Amoore

New top story on Hacker News: Actors for Squeak Smalltalk

New top story on Hacker News: Pre-Existing Immunity to CRISPR Found in 96% of People in Study

Facebook Sketches a Future With a Diminished News Feed

A Florida Man Is Suing Tesla for a Scary Autopilot Crash

Waymo Can Finally Bring Truly Driverless Cars to California

Chevy's Electric eCOPO Camaro Is Made to Rule the Drag Strip

Apple's T2 Security Chip Makes It Harder to Tap MacBook Mics

The Spooky Evolution of Text Message-Based Horror Stories

Here’s How Much Bots Drive Conversation During News Events

How to Get New Emoji on Your iPhone: Upgrade to iOS 12.1

Everything Apple Announced October 30: MacBook Air, iPad Pro, Mac Mini

Apple iPad Pro 2018: Specs, Features, Price

New Apple MacBook Air (2018): Price, Specs, Release Date

New Mac Mini 2018: Specs, Features, Price

This Tiny Drone Uses Friction to Pull More Than Its Own Weight

New top story on Hacker News: Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: SQL Trainer – try and learn 12 popular sql queries

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: CryptoProof – post proofs to the Ethereum blockchain for free

(Pseudo) Scientific Strategies for Trick-or-Treating Like a Beast

New top story on Hacker News: New tool streamlines the creation of moving pictures

New top story on Hacker News: China’s peculiar ear-cleaning custom

New top story on Hacker News: Apple's Folly: Long before the iPhone, the Pippin console flopped hard (2013)

Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government network

Warning over DJI drones falling out of the sky

Does Climate Change Mean You Should Fly Less? Yeah, Maybe

Garden Route wildfire: Seven killed in George, South Africa

Pittsburgh shooting: Anger at Pence rally 'Jesus prayer'

New top story on Hacker News: Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity

New top story on Hacker News: Redefining the Kilogram

New top story on Hacker News: C++17 Constexpr Compile-Time Ray Tracer