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New top story on Hacker News: Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts

Trump asked Australian PM to help investigate Russia inquiry

New top story on Hacker News: Automation will drastically reduce police and city budgets

New top story on Hacker News: To show or not to show work

New top story on Hacker News: How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics

Japan delivers long-delayed consumption tax hike

New top story on Hacker News: Half a Person

New top story on Hacker News: Make School (YC W12) is hiring a growth marketer

Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni jailed on abortion charges

New top story on Hacker News: Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits 10 year delay

New top story on Hacker News: On Tilt: Love, hate and poker in the neon West

New top story on Hacker News: Square Canada doesn't have a tech issue: it's a Cuban coffee issue

New top story on Hacker News: Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

New top story on Hacker News: Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available

New top story on Hacker News: Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him

Jessye Norman, Grammy-winning star of opera, dies at 74

Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation's hope or hype?

Jack Charles: 'I'd rob to collect rent for stolen Aboriginal land'

The imam who died fighting racism in South Africa

New top story on Hacker News: Cargo Cult Science

New top story on Hacker News: Spoofing emails: The trickery costing businesses billions

New top story on Hacker News: The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Product Director for Growth

Bihar and Uttar Pradesh: More than 100 dead in fresh India flood chaos

New top story on Hacker News: Forever 21, Which Helped Popularize Fast Fashion, to File for Bankruptcy

New top story on Hacker News: Sticky Footer Using Flexbox

New top story on Hacker News: Strategies for Long Projects

Saudi crown prince warns of 'Iran threat' to global oil

New top story on Hacker News: US steps up efforts to limit China’s control of critical minerals

New top story on Hacker News: Which companies are using Erlang, and why?

Uganda's Solomon Serwanjja wins BBC World News Komla Dumor award

New top story on Hacker News: The perils of short-termism: Civilisation’s greatest threat

New top story on Hacker News: The Electoral College and the Knapsack Problem

New top story on Hacker News: The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité

New top story on Hacker News: Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming

New top story on Hacker News: How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer

New top story on Hacker News: Are We Living in a Post-Happiness World?

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube Demonetizes Videos with Titles Containing LGBTQ-Related Words

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Aristotl – an intuitive logical fallacy lookup tool

New top story on Hacker News: Humans can acquire TB from deer

New top story on Hacker News: Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs

New top story on Hacker News: In Quest of a Pangram (1988) [pdf]

A former diet cola addict built a $100m firm

Will virtual clothes transform how we shop?

Elon Musk Just Unveiled Starship, SpaceX's Human-Carrying Rocket

New top story on Hacker News: The Inevitable Death of VMs: A Progress Report [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Monads to Machine Code (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: GE, NASA Partner to advance the future of electric flight

New top story on Hacker News: SBCL 20: Steel Bank Common Lisp's 20th Anniversary Workshop

New top story on Hacker News: SpaceX Starship Update

New top story on Hacker News: Computer-Age Typography: Hybrid Legibility Explains That Ubiquitous Check Font

New top story on Hacker News: Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration with Augmentations (2010)

New top story on Hacker News: David E. Shaw and the Ultimate College Hedge

Labradoodle creator says it's his 'life's regret'

Beijing Daxing: China's huge new 'starfish' airport opens its doors

Indonesia haze causes sky to turn blood red

Canada's Green Party edits photo of leader holding single-use cup

New top story on Hacker News: AllenNLP Interpret: A Framework for Explaining Predictions of NLP Models

New top story on Hacker News: The Two Squares Puzzle

New top story on Hacker News: What Brought You Here?

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

New top story on Hacker News: Life as a cancer patient: ‘it feels like dying from the drugs meant to save me’

New top story on Hacker News: How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?

New top story on Hacker News: Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs

Why much of the internet is closed off to blind people

Andrew Yang: The 'Asian math guy' trying to be next US president

US economy under Trump: Is it the greatest in history?

New top story on Hacker News: Alphabet Waymo valuation cut 40% by Morgan Stanley to $105B

New top story on Hacker News: White House is considering delisting Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges

New top story on Hacker News: Nearly 60% of Europe's native trees risk extinction