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New top story on Hacker News: Diffa: The Creative Community Funding the Fight Against HIV/Aids

Technical glitch halts trading on Japan's exchanges

Google Pixel phone 'designed for economic downturn'

New top story on Hacker News: Words from Old Books

New top story on Hacker News: Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'

New top story on Hacker News: Industrial Literacy

New top story on Hacker News: 3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic

New top story on Hacker News: Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising against sweeping lockdowns

New top story on Hacker News: D-Wave Announces General Availability of First Quantum Computer for Business

Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: Russia offers to host Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks

New top story on Hacker News: NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity at a Personal Scale

WIRED25 Day 3: Look at Problems in a New Way

Coronavirus: How Italy has fought back from virus disaster

Nigeria turns 60: Can Africa's most populous nation remain united?

Rwanda's clothing spat with the US helps China

New top story on Hacker News: An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: How an industry of endless construction one-offs is holding our society back

New top story on Hacker News: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to keep drug prices high

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon Timestream is generally available

New top story on Hacker News: Elements of Programmnig

Smart plugs sold on Amazon a 'fire risk', Which? warns

How controversial data firm Palantir hit $22bn

US Election: Whoever becomes the next president, social media is changing

First Trump-Biden presidential debate: Trump clashes with moderator

US election 2020: A really simple guide

New top story on Hacker News: Transistor Options Beyond 3nm (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: Poems Without an ‘I’

US election 2020: Trump and Biden duel in chaotic, bitter debate

Extra facility opened for planes grounded by Covid-19

New top story on Hacker News: From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. expected to sue Google next week as DOJ seeks support from states

Trump-Biden Debate Twitter Recap: Politics Is a Metaverse

Brazil judge stymies plan to revoke mangrove protection

New top story on Hacker News: Haskell GHC 9.0.1-alpha released with Linear type support

Disney lays off 28,000 at US theme parks

Helen Reddy: Australian singer of feminist anthem I Am Woman dies

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?

New top story on Hacker News: Python 3.9 is around the corner

New top story on Hacker News: City of Amsterdam’s Algorithm Register

New top story on Hacker News: Several Apple Services Down

New top story on Hacker News: Orange Health (YC S20) Is Hiring Mobile App Engineers (RN, iOS/Droid) in India

New top story on Hacker News: I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language

Joyce Echaquan: Outcry in Canada over treatment of dying indigenous woman

New top story on Hacker News: Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly

New top story on Hacker News: The pace of environmental change can doom or save coral reefs

Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey

Congo's sapeurs pass their style on to a new generation

New top story on Hacker News: Tic-80 version 0.80 released

New top story on Hacker News: Typeful Programming [pdf]

Chinese teacher sentenced to death for poisoning nursery children

New top story on Hacker News: The Campaign Against Plastic Is Harming the Planet and the Public

New top story on Hacker News: US college enrollments are falling (except for graduate degrees)

Trump and Biden: What to watch for in first presidential debate

New top story on Hacker News: Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better

New top story on Hacker News: Useful and Beneficial (2012)

George Pell: Cardinal to return to Rome for first time since acquittal

New top story on Hacker News: Durability: NVMe Disks

Coronavirus: Global Covid-19 death toll passes one million

BTS to become multi-millionaires after label goes public

Ai Weiwei: 'Too late' to curb China's global influence

Kangana Ranaut: The star taking on Bollywood

New top story on Hacker News: Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo

New top story on Hacker News: OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I)

New top story on Hacker News: In Defense of XML

New top story on Hacker News: Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars

New top story on Hacker News: RCT of Intermittent Fasting

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Keywords2lyrics – Automatic Songwriting from Keywords

New top story on Hacker News: The weight of buildings and the raising of Chicago

Scientists create a microscopic robot that ‘walks’

New top story on Hacker News: The Polygons of Doom: PSX

New top story on Hacker News: The Long Lost Manual for the World's Oldest Preserved Computer Has Been Found

New top story on Hacker News: Today is LibreOffice 10th Anniversary

New top story on Hacker News: OpenSSH 8.4

New top story on Hacker News: “So here's a thing I'm not supposed to have.”

New top story on Hacker News: Modernize your Bash Scripts by adding GUI

New top story on Hacker News: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

New top story on Hacker News: French Fathers Will Now Get Double the Paternity Leave

TikTok: US judge halts app store ban

TikTok: US judge halts app store ban

The South African cleric taking on the church over a rapist priest

Meng Wanzhou: The PowerPoint that sparked an international row

'You're an opera singer? But you're not white...'

New top story on Hacker News: Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade?

New top story on Hacker News: Epoch Graphics Engine