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New top story on Hacker News: Yet another alternative to floating-point numbers

New top story on Hacker News: Everything you need to know about windsocks

New top story on Hacker News: First beta release of Alire, the package manager for Ada/SPARK

New top story on Hacker News: BCON20 – Blender Conference: Together Apart

India couple bullied for intimate wedding photoshoot

New top story on Hacker News: Intent to stop using null in my (JavaScript) code

New top story on Hacker News: The story of the PDF

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Human cost of two nations fighting for 'Motherland'

How the controversial Nile dam might fix Sudan's floods

'My parents had hearts of gold, they didn't deserve it'

How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories

The Miraculous Love Kids: Street kids changing their lives with guitars

Belarus protests: The turtle 'anthem' protesters sing in Belarus

New top story on Hacker News: Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review

New top story on Hacker News: Fact Checks and Context for Wayback Machine Pages

Robot Bores: AI-powered awkward first date

US Election 2020: Biden and Trump in last weekend dash round swing states

US election: The big issue that could hurt Trump

US election 2020: 'It just makes me feel like a nobody'

US election: 'All Republicans should marry Democrats'

US election 2020: The great dividing line of this campaign

New top story on Hacker News: Please Share Your Thoughts

New top story on Hacker News: Goodbye, Native Apps

How social media is preparing for US election chaos

New top story on Hacker News: Why Are We Living in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction? (2019)

New top story on Hacker News: A Better Mousetrap – Converting WebPages to Web APIs

New top story on Hacker News: PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says

New top story on Hacker News: Packaging Kubernetes for Debian

New top story on Hacker News: Distributed Systems Learning Notes

New top story on Hacker News: Fear of white space

Far from home, Rohingya refugees face a new peril on a remote island

US election 2020: The Asians who are rooting for Trump to win

The Kashmir journalists 'harassed' and 'questioned' for doing their job

The 400,000 seafarers who can't go home

Climate change: You've got cheap data, how about cheap power too?

New top story on Hacker News: Art After the Plague: How painters through the ages have responded to contagion

Scared but socially distant in a Tokyo 'haunted house'

US election 2020: Trump is in the fight of his political life

US election 2020: Fact-checking Trump and Biden's final week

New top story on Hacker News: Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease

Coronavirus: Slovakia holds national test but president calls for delay

Covid: Belgium announces return to national lockdown

US election: What Latino first-time voters want

Berlin airport opens... 10 years late

New top story on Hacker News: California Property Taxes Mapped

New top story on Hacker News: How to create minimal music with code in any programming language

New top story on Hacker News: The 8th Wonder of the World: Foxconn Mirage Factory in Wisconsin

New top story on Hacker News: The conflicts among the members of the Commission on Freedom of the Press

New top story on Hacker News: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response

New top story on Hacker News: Cecilia Chiang, SF chef who brought authentic Chinese food to US, dies at 100

Why the humble text message is still a campaign weapon

Indian brands reckon with a new challenge: hate

Oil firm whistleblower trapped in Croatian holiday hell

New top story on Hacker News: Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of

New Zealand votes to legalise euthanasia

Armenians on the front line in Nagorno-Karabakh

Covid-19: Record traffic out of Paris as second French lockdown begins

Australian on Qatar flight where women ‘invasively examined' left 'terrified'

Walmart pulls guns from display over 'civil unrest' concerns

Quiz of the week: Which Borat slogan did Kazakhstan embrace?

Africa's week in pictures: 23 - 29 October 2020

New top story on Hacker News: DeepSource (YC W20) Is hiring software engineers

New top story on Hacker News: Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

Getting too many texts? Blame the election

US Election 2020: Trump and Biden duel in critical state of Florida

Coronavirus hardship in Mexico, Nigeria and Bangladesh

'We asked Trump to stop playing YMCA' - Village People singer Victor Willis

New top story on Hacker News: The Corporatization of Nursing Homes

New top story on Hacker News: The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004)

New top story on Hacker News: How to walk upright and stop living in a cave

New top story on Hacker News: To protect democracy, journalists need to learn to think like hackers and spies

New top story on Hacker News: figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

New top story on Hacker News: Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

New top story on Hacker News: What's in a Linux Executable?

New top story on Hacker News: Sexual Eeling

New top story on Hacker News: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why

New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

US Election 2020: Trump slams lockdowns, Biden accuses him of insulting victims

New top story on Hacker News: I Violated a Code of Conduct

New top story on Hacker News: Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails

US election: 'Our kids died in the Parkland shooting, but we disagree on guns'

US election 2020: What to look out for on election night

New top story on Hacker News: Actively maintained YouTube-DL GitHub repo

New top story on Hacker News: FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent,Credible Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

New top story on Hacker News: A Bayesian Perspective on Q-Learning

Animal Crossing: 'My sister lives on in a video game'

Al-Qaeda still 'heavily embedded' within Taliban in Afghanistan, UN official warns

Mali Radisson Blu attack: Two Islamists sentenced to death

Animal Crossing: 'My sister lives on in a video game'

End Sars protests: 'I felt I was going to die there'

US Election 2020: Will America's race issue decide the next president?

New top story on Hacker News: Bullet Train: Open-source feature flagging

New top story on Hacker News: The Fall of Silicon Valley

New top story on Hacker News: How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

New top story on Hacker News: How the Man Who Invented Xbox Baked a 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sourdough

New top story on Hacker News: A CIA Office Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Crippling Headaches

New top story on Hacker News: Hubbard and the Empress (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: When is no-code useful?