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Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: Russia offers to host Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks
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
Families of 12 Hong Kong activists captured at sea by China look for answers
Onions, ironing and 'sex appeal': Who is Tony Abbott?
US Election: Whoever becomes the next president, social media is changing
Coronavirus: Dorset festival artwork tribute to victims
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
'It's all on me': The struggle of being a mother during the pandemic
Coronavirus: How Italy has fought back from virus disaster
Coronavirus: How to survive a pandemic as a young entrepreneur
Denise Johnson: Posthumous solo album finally puts singer centre stage
New top story on Hacker News: An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: Congressional investigation shows Celgene, Teva plotted to keep drug prices high
New top story on Hacker News: NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity at a Personal Scale
Job loss fears as furlough lifeline starts to wind down
Newspaper headlines: PM warns rule breakers as dad shops without mask
'I worked a five hour shift and got paid nothing'
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: Amazon Timestream is generally available
New top story on Hacker News: Elements of Programmnig
Helen Reddy: Australian singer of feminist anthem I Am Woman dies
New top story on Hacker News: City of Amsterdam’s Algorithm Register
Covid; Further curbs 'unacceptable' without Parliamentary backing say MPs
Covid student chaos: Paying £30k a year and begging security for food
Victorian Society risk list: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet pub added
Coronavirus doctor's diary: Trying out tech that may help make worship Covid-secure
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: The visa woes that shattered scientists’ American dreams
New top story on Hacker News: Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly
New top story on Hacker News: I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
Universal Credit: Plea not to axe £20 a week ‘lifeline’
Egg freezing 10-year limit should be scrapped, says ethics body
Ascension Island considered as location for asylum centre
Black History Month: Postboxes painted to honour black Britons
Great Barrier Reef: Uncovering the secrets of Australia's deep waters
Female Koran reciters 'part of Islamic legacy'
Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey
Coronavirus: What is the R number and why does it matter?
'The new Covid support for business is nuts'
Russian cleaner sweeps to power in surprise village vote
New top story on Hacker News: Denmark: We can slash CO2 by 70% in a decade and still have welfare
New top story on Hacker News: The pace of environmental change can doom or save coral reefs
BTS to become multi-millionaires after label goes public
New top story on Hacker News: Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
New top story on Hacker News: Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars
Sir David Attenborough gets quizzed by kids after plea to world leaders to save nature
Young people ‘give up dream job hope’ in pandemic
Coronavirus: NHS faces pandemic 'triple whammy' this winter
Coronavirus: Early pub closing 'putting shop workers at risk'
The water-saving device wasting billions of litres every week
TikTok ban: How did TikTok stay online in the US?
Dublin Lord Mayor: Hazel Chu and her Chinese heritage
From tea fields to university in Sri Lanka
Scientists create a microscopic robot that ‘walks’
The cat who hitched a lift on a worldwide tour
'I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots'
Ai Weiwei: 'Too late' to curb China's global influence
Life: Doctor Foster spin-off explores 'loneliness in big cities'
'If you steal music, you aren't a real music fan'
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: Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons
New top story on Hacker News: McAfee S-1
New top story on Hacker News: Google requiring Android apps to use its billing system next year
New top story on Hacker News: The weight of buildings and the raising of Chicago
New top story on Hacker News: Epoch Graphics Engine
Covid-19: Up to £10,000 fine for failure to self-isolate in England
Covid lockdown: Two-thirds of Wales' population affected
Coronavirus: 'Forced to work' as medics fighting Covid
Movers 'more likely to buy than first-time buyers'
Local food heroes: Tesco teams up with Olio
Coronavirus tales from Tom's Bench on Clapham Common
Covid: Dementia patient's wife describes 'torture' of lack of visits
Orkney island of Westray claims to have UK's longest golf hole
Voicemail from prison: How a mum and daughter rebuilt their relationship
The woman who quit smoking and built a hypnotherapy firm
Test and Trace: 'I spoke to one person in four months'
High Street hopefuls: The people opening new shops
Meng Wanzhou: The PowerPoint that sparked an international row
Covid symptoms: What are they and how do I protect myself?
Covid: Seven ways the job market has changed for young people
Strictly Come Dancing: How do you film during a pandemic?
New top story on Hacker News: Investigating TLS Blocking in India
New top story on Hacker News: It used to be simpler to teach Unix
New top story on Hacker News: Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33
New top story on Hacker News: United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (2013) [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: Coinbase is a mission focused company
New top story on Hacker News: British Museum to go more than skin deep with Scythian exhibition (2017)
New top story on Hacker News: Is the C runtime and library a legitimate part of the Unix API? (2017)
Coronavirus lockdown: Students must be allowed home at Christmas - Labour
France racism: Paris to commemorate slave rebellion figure
New top story on Hacker News: Algorithm Helps New York Decide Who Goes Free Before Trial
Brain-eating microbe: US city told not to use water amid contamination concerns
New top story on Hacker News: LibreDWG: “Plans are to add support for SolveSpace, OpenSCAD and PythonCAD”
Coronavirus: Cardiff and Swansea get ready for lockdown
Brexit trade talks: Deal can and must be made, says CBI boss
California wildfires: The inmates training to be firefighters
Six the musical: From a bedroom to Broadway (almost)
Coronavirus: ‘I used to film weddings but now I film funerals’
Female street artists: 'People assume I’m not the artist'
Photography award winners show the fragility and beauty of mangrove forests
University entrance: The ‘taboo’ about who doesn’t go
Amy Coney Barrett: Who is Trump's Supreme Court pick?
University students: Tips and tricks to help you cope in a pandemic
My Money: 'Hollie thinks she spent less than me'
Idles: 'We'd love to do a zorb gig'
What is Donald Trump's Covid record?
Italian family fosters Gambian migrant: 'The son we never had'
Civil service shake-up: Rewiring the government machine or blowing a fuse?
New top story on Hacker News: Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes
New top story on Hacker News: Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
A bold teenage caddie and the first 'tricked up' course - the tales behind Britain's rare Ryder Cup wins
EasyJet 'hanging by a thread', says union official
'It is worrying' - Connor's concern for global women's game
New top story on Hacker News: How to Make a Robotic Worm
Croydon police shooting: Suspect's background probed over Sgt Matt Ratana death
New top story on Hacker News: Chief Science Officer for Pfizer Says “Second Wave” Faked on False-Positives
New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac
New top story on Hacker News: Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (2007)
Coronavirus: More than a quarter of UK under stricter rules
New top story on Hacker News: A Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard
New top story on Hacker News: It Could Be Possible to Transfer Data Through Gravitational Waves (2018)
Coronavirus: Shoppers lost £100m in vouchers expiring in lockdown - Which?
Coronavirus: Dawn sea swims help with lockdown mental health
Week in pictures: 19 - 25 September 2020
'Maskne': How to fight face mask breakouts
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
Switzerland gets ready to vote on ending free movement with EU
What's in Boris Johnson's climate in tray?
Covid-19: What do scientists think of the PM's plan?
Barga: How Italy's most Scottish town coped without its annual 'invasion'
Thomas Cook staff: Redundant twice in a year
The day Brexit hit boiling point
New top story on Hacker News: First Evidence of a Planet in Another Galaxy
Little Mix demanded aftercare on their show
Government 'got into a tizzy' about civil servants home working
California wildfire trend 'driven by climate'
Shoppers could pay more after no-deal Brexit
Covid-19 restrictions: 'Asian weddings have 400 guests - not 15'
New top story on Hacker News: A deep dive into Swift function builders
New top story on Hacker News: Google Services Experiencing Disruptions
New top story on Hacker News: Orange Health (YC S20) Is Hiring Mobile App Engineers (RN, iOS/Droid) in India
County lines raids: 1,000 arrests and £1.2m drugs seized
Magawa the mine-detecting rat wins PDSA Gold Medal
Michael Kiwanuka is the Mercury Prize winner, 2020
Coronavirus: Are the lockdown restrictions too strict?
How worried should we be about deadly cyber-attacks?
Quiz of the week: Who made history at the 'pand-Emmys'?
Coronavirus: 'We're Australian but we're trapped in the UK'
Coronavirus infection: Is there a North-South divide in England?
Britpop: Photographer Kevin Cummins revisits the 90s
The German medical students who want to learn about abortion
Breonna Taylor: Why it's hard to charge US police over shootings
'One day everyone will use China's digital currency'
New top story on Hacker News: A Pipeline Made of Airbags
New top story on Hacker News: The Distribution of Vaccines in the 19th Century
Trump on Meghan Markle: 'I'm not a fan of hers'
New top story on Hacker News: MIT: The wobbling shadow of the M87* black hole
New top story on Hacker News: The Final Airbus A380 Has Been Assembled
New top story on Hacker News: Beatrice the Sixteenth
US election: Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power
Flu jabs limited due to high demand
Many firms 'have not considered Brexit effect'
Coronavirus: UK lacking leadership, says ex-civil service head
New top story on Hacker News: Discovery: User Manual of the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
New top story on Hacker News: Google Approaches Bert-Level Performance Using 300x Fewer Parameters
New top story on Hacker News: The Cement of Society Is...
Covid-19: Sunak set to unveil emergency jobs scheme
NHS Covid-19 app: England and Wales get smartphone contact tracing for over-16s
Mental Health: 'Kindness can help save lives'
'How Ruth Bader Ginsburg personally shaped our lives'
The pandemic is fuelling a surfing boom - in Ohio corn country
Transracial adoption: 'I've been accused of kidnapping my white child'
US 2020 election: The economy under Trump in six charts
Alexei Navalny: How his team found Novichok bottle evidence in Tomsk
How much gold is there left to mine in the world?
Rwandan genocide orphan's 'miracle' WhatsApp reunion
New top story on Hacker News: Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack
New top story on Hacker News: T. S. Eliot, the Art of Poetry No. 1
New top story on Hacker News: The case of a maid who battled a millionaire has gripped Singapore
New top story on Hacker News: Tweet threads cured my writer's block: Twitter as a medium for sketching
UK sends US evidence on Islamic State 'Beatles'
Yew Trees hospital: Ten staff suspended at mental health unit
Could churches double up as bank branches in cash-stricken areas?
Pascale Ferrier: White House ricin package suspect in court
Sean Lennon to host anniversary show for his father, John, on his 80th birthday
Rakhmabai Raut: The child bride whose divorce Queen Victoria approved
New top story on Hacker News: Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Breakup Experts – Full Time Remote
New top story on Hacker News: The Adaptive Technology of Prosthetics
New top story on Hacker News: Crab – an interpreter for a tiny subset of Logo
New top story on Hacker News: You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English
New top story on Hacker News: Small Tech
Siberia climate change: Behind the scenes reporting from Yakutia
Documenting lockdown through drone photography
Gordi: The pop star doctor who answered the Covid call
The ‘Trump train’: 'I'm tired of people putting down our president'
Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change
Is the world entering a new Cold War?
Why the case of a maid who battled a millionaire has gripped Singapore
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a free-to-use GPT-2 API
New top story on Hacker News: Catch Breaking Changes by Diffing API Traffic
New top story on Hacker News: Adventures of porting PostmarketOS to the Librem 5
Italy votes to slash size of parliament by a third
New top story on Hacker News: Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts
New top story on Hacker News: Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina
Countryside improvements fund 'could be raided'
Amazon criticised over 'Black Lives Don't Matter' caps
Mozambique: Why did these men shoot a naked woman dead?
Erlestoke Prison 'less safe' following Covid-19 restrictions
Wild maple trees 'in serious need of conservation'
Brazil's Amazon: Fireman 'saving what's not burnt'
In pictures: The beauty of the fens
Helena Bonham Carter and Millie Bobby Brown on Enola Holmes
Wigs: A new fashion trend for black men?
Long Covid: 'My fatigue was like nothing I've experienced before'
Coronavirus: There's no law to 'harvest' DNA from Covid-19 tests
Coronavirus economy: The 'banker ladies' saving friends from debt
Rathlin Island: The UK island with no coronavirus cases
'Lack of investment' behind snarled-up legal system
Bollywood bets on the small screen as Covid shuts cinemas
Ava Max: 'I need to make it, no matter what'
New top story on Hacker News: Noisefunge: A music programming environment in Befunge
New top story on Hacker News: Star Tek–Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counterspace Operations in 2025 (1996) [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: Dawn of the Heliocene
New top story on Hacker News: The New, Nicer Nero
New top story on Hacker News: In the Computer
Satellite achieves sharp-eyed view of methane
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Favourite blogs?
New top story on Hacker News: FinCEN Files: HSBC moved Ponzi scheme millions despite warning
Solomon Islands: Men working for WW2 bomb clearing agency die in explosion
Humpback whale finds escape from Australian crocodile river
New top story on Hacker News: How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks
Covid: UK at 'critical point' in pandemic, top scientists to warn
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Compile Ruby to C
New top story on Hacker News: Jet Fuel Is Now So Cheap It’s Being Blended for Use by Ships
New top story on Hacker News: Domains for the Rest of Us
New top story on Hacker News: Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture
Jogging when you're black - the calculations you have to make
'Mythical' Aston Martin Bulldog supercar being restored
Moths: Intricacies of UK's under-threat insects
Lagos Inferno: The blast that destroyed a Nigerian girl's school
Music boosts memories for ethnic minority dementia patients
Inside Poland’s 'LGBT-free zones'
The black-owned coffee firm that became a bestseller
New top story on Hacker News: Haskell RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal (Accepted)
New top story on Hacker News: Build Personal Moats
Emmy Awards 2020: Jimmy Kimmel kicks off virtual ceremony
Coronavirus: UK firms voluntarily return £215m in furlough cash
New top story on Hacker News: Raspberry Pi – UASP, Trim, and Boot Performance via USB
New top story on Hacker News: 2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
New top story on Hacker News: Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
New top story on Hacker News: Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Genius
New top story on Hacker News: DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features
New top story on Hacker News: Gifted Children as Hidden Persuaders in the Cold War (2019)
Coronavirus: Church bells ring out again after Covid-19
The National Trust homes where colonial links are 'umbilical'
New top story on Hacker News: Netgear Firmware Requires Online Registration
Emmy Awards 2020: Stars prepare to dial in for virtual ceremony
TikTok: Trump says Oracle deal for video app 'has my blessing'
British Airways accused of snubbing refund request
Singapore rolls out Covid tracing tokens
Labour conference: Don't retreat on pledges, union warns Starmer
Scottish medieval coin 'lost' and found in Norfolk declared treasure
How the oil industry made us doubt climate change
A cold, flu or coronavirus - which one do I have?
Your pictures on the theme of 'night vision'
The film within a film that tries to save lives
‘Our foster child asked us to adopt him – by drawing himself on to a family photo’
The Indian queens who modelled for the world's first vaccine
'I still spend so much time on the kids - that needs to change'
Janusz Walus: Why far-right Polish football fans idolise a murderer in South Africa
‘Liverpool are getting an absolute superstar’ - what Thiago will add to Klopp's side
New top story on Hacker News: IceSL: A free lua based modeler/slicer
Coronavirus: PM considers new measures and the music venues still opening
Syria war: US deploys extra troops to Syria after Russia clashes
'Let's use our voices to grow our game' - Isa Guha column
New top story on Hacker News: NSQ A realtime distributed messaging platform
New top story on Hacker News: A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive
Covid: PM considering new restrictions amid second coronavirus wave
Coronavirus: Devolved leaders urge PM to help aerospace sector
New top story on Hacker News: The age-old strategy of buying cheap shares is faltering
New top story on Hacker News: U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons
New top story on Hacker News: Why You Should Read This Out Loud
New top story on Hacker News: GM’s new series of Ultium Drive electric motors
The racist church bombing that shocked the world
How many people does it take to oust a political leader?
New top story on Hacker News: Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: US Supreme Court judge dies of cancer, aged 87
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justice dies
Covid: How should I talk to neighbours who break the rules?
'We had to find a way of getting open' - launching a music venue in a pandemic
New top story on Hacker News: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion of Gender Equality, Dies at 87
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Bulk Fusion 360 Export and Sync
New top story on Hacker News: Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat
Van Morrison to release lockdown protest songs
Climate Change: Is the movement diverse enough?
Quiz of the week: Who scored the Premier League's opening goal?
Breaking down the Brexit border problem
US West Coast fires in maps, graphics and images
Covid-19 Singapore: A ‘pandemic of inequality’ exposed
US election: Are older Trump voters sticking with him?
India's Covid crisis sees rise in child marriage and trafficking
Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy and Linkin Park roadies start own band
How photographers track down stolen pictures
How the Kanneh-Masons hope to demystify classical music
New top story on Hacker News: Fanny Cradock, a lodestar in the foul-tasting odyssey of bad British food
New top story on Hacker News: Space Tethers: Stringing Up the Solar System
Coronavirus testing: Simple test gives results in 90 minutes
Alligator on gas snaps up Ig Nobel prize
Belarus protests: Women try to unmask those detaining protesters
Siberia landscape scarred by climate change
Schools in poorer areas lack catch-up cash
No new 2p or £2 coins to be made for 10 years
Coronavirus: North-east England local lockdown begins
New top story on Hacker News: TSMC’s Wafer Prices Revealed: 300mm Wafer at 5nm Is Nearly $17,000
New top story on Hacker News: The Cost of Software-Based Memory Management Without Virtual Memory
New top story on Hacker News: Array Programming with NumPy
New top story on Hacker News: A Concurrency Cost Hierarchy
Coronavirus: Speak to rule-breakers first before calling police - PM
In pictures: Seaside photos taken 800 miles apart
New top story on Hacker News: US median household income grew 6.8% in 2019
New top story on Hacker News: From NASA to Amtrak, These Are All the Government Agencies with Tactical Teams
New top story on Hacker News: Kontrast Is a Contrast Checker
Covid court delays: Dead pigeons and four-year waits for justice
Migrant crisis 2015: What happened to Nujeen Mustafa?
Chris Grayling to advise ports operator in £100,000 role
Cyber threat to disrupt start of university term
Revenge porn 'new normal' after cases surge in lockdown
Coronavirus testing: What's going wrong?
Being a fresher during coronavirus
Environment activists: 'I got death and rape threats’
The Australian family that travels 1,800km to run an outback pub
US election 2020: When will we get a result for the US election?
Coronavirus: 'I cut a carrot for the first time, aged 41'
How Rocks movie stars went from classroom to big screen
The student daring to challenge Thailand’s monarchy
'For me whale meat is my childhood, my memories'
New top story on Hacker News: Diversity-Related Training Meta-analysis
New top story on Hacker News: Scientists use big data to sway elections and predict riots in the 1960s
New top story on Hacker News: Connecting to uncommon HID devices
New top story on Hacker News: Half of All False Convictions in US Involved Police or Prosecutor Misconduct
New top story on Hacker News: When you browse Instagram and find former Australian PM's Tony Abbott's passport
Brexit: Dominic Raab seeks to reassure US politicians over Brexit bill
TikTok: Cambridgeshire police officers warned over 'offensive' videos
New top story on Hacker News: Orange Health (YC S20) Is Hiring Head of Engineering in India
New top story on Hacker News: How to Form a California LLC (without a lawyer)
New top story on Hacker News: Space Cadets and Rat Utopias (2014)
'Redundancy floodgates will open' says Unite union
Child killers could face life sentences in criminal justice shake-up.
UK Space Agency funds tech for orbital awareness
John Bolton: Criminal inquiry opened into explosive memoir
Full circuit: Round-Britain photographer Quintin Lake's epic journey
Teen entrepreneurs’ top business tips
Violence and hostility: Inside the French police
Coronavirus: How we faced redundancy in lockdown
West Coast fires: How we outran a California wildfire
Coronavirus testing: Government claims fact-checked
US election 2020: What is Trump's record on the environment?
Recovering from Covid-19: 'I can't get the images out of my head'
New top story on Hacker News: Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash that killed woman
New top story on Hacker News: Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? (2019) [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: OneFuzz – A self-hosted Fuzzing-As-A-Service platform [from Microsoft]
New top story on Hacker News: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Lofimusic.app, an open source Background Music Progressive Web App
New top story on Hacker News: Keeping Time at NIST
New top story on Hacker News: Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggests Sophisticated Lab Modifications
New top story on Hacker News: Earth Inc: Centralization and Variegation in the Global Company Network (2015)
Coronavirus: NHS staff off work due to testing shortages, say bosses
New top story on Hacker News: Man arrested for starting at least 7 brush fires in Portland
New top story on Hacker News: Project Oberon
US West Coast fires: Trump fans flames of climate row in California
Housing crisis: The 59-year-old woman who lives in a van
New top story on Hacker News: How HTTPS Works
New top story on Hacker News: Visual Explanation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm
'Soaring alcohol misuse' could overwhelm service
Unison: Care workers who made £4 an hour awarded in £100,000 court case
Gene editing to produce 'super dad' livestock
Digital divide: 'My children's classroom is a car park'
As Naomi’s TikTok followers grew so did racist abuse
Blind veteran writes cookery book for other visually-impaired people
Coronavirus in Africa: Explaining the bogus 'viral blockers' worn by some politicians
Ship with no crew to sail across the Atlantic
Five reasons why Israel's peace deals with the UAE and Bahrain matter
When changing a light bulb is a really big deal
The Nigerian filmmakers risking jail with lesbian movie Ife
New top story on Hacker News: Hate Speech on Facebook Is Pushing Ethiopia Dangerously Close to a Genocide
New top story on Hacker News: Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?
Roderick Walker: Georgia deputy filmed punching black man is fired
New top story on Hacker News: Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores
New top story on Hacker News: CBP proudly announce seizure of ‘counterfeit AirPods’; are actually OnePlus Buds
New top story on Hacker News: Maxima – A Computer Algebra System built with Lisp
New top story on Hacker News: The Race to the Pole
Brexit: Geoffrey Cox says PM 'damaging' UK's reputation with bill
TikTok rejects Microsoft bid at eleventh hour
New top story on Hacker News: Why inequality matters (Bill Gates, 2014)
New top story on Hacker News: Understanding How Computers Generate Random Numbers
New top story on Hacker News: Oblique Strategies
New top story on Hacker News: A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics
New top story on Hacker News: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
New top story on Hacker News: Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas
Coronavirus: WHO reports record daily rise in new infections
Climate change: Warmth shatters section of Greenland ice shelf
Coronavirus: 'Rule of six' comes into effect in England
Give us green post-Covid recovery, urges CBI boss
Battle of Britain radar tower in Essex given protected status
New top story on Hacker News: Oracle Chosen as Winner in Deal for TikTok’s U.S. Operations
New top story on Hacker News: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft Statement on TikTok
New top story on Hacker News: Cracking the Who You Show Your Work Code
New top story on Hacker News: Read Me
Teenagers convicted of terrorism could be jailed for life
New top story on Hacker News: Dr. Fauci says he takes Vitamin D and C to “lessen susceptibility to infections”
New top story on Hacker News: Windows 10 Ameliorated: Windows 10 minus spyware plus added stability, security
New top story on Hacker News: GAlculator – Geometric Algebra Pocket Calculator
Coronavirus: Virtual Great North Run in 57 countries
New top story on Hacker News: The Spite Software License
New top story on Hacker News: The Virtual HQ for Your Remote Team
New top story on Hacker News: You have turned Google Chrome into IE
New top story on Hacker News: Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on innovation
Russia: Local elections test Kremlin party's grip on power
Sue Barker leaving BBC's A Question of Sport show
New top story on Hacker News: CA Law Was to Give Uber Drivers New Protections. Instead, Comedians Lost Work
New top story on Hacker News: JPMorgan to trade shares of pre-IPO giants including SpaceX, Robinhood, Airbnb
New top story on Hacker News: Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video]
New top story on Hacker News: The tragic death of an actor: Molière (2013)
Brexit: Tony Blair and John Major urge MPs to reject bill
After covid: 'Working from home' is long term ambition
US film Nomadland triumphs at Venice Film Festival
Coronavirus: How Christmas could be different this year
Brian Cox and Adele's producer Paul Epworth discuss music and the cosmos
I felt my life was over when I saw my damaged face
New top story on Hacker News: Makani source code released
Spain sentences El Salvador ex-colonel to 133 years in jail for priests' murder
New top story on Hacker News: DNS Query Privacy Revisited
Brexit: Back me over the bill, Johnson tells Tory MPs
Afghanistan war: 'Historic' peace talks with Taliban set to begin
Woman who sawed off own hand found guilty of fraud
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Bit Serial CPU
New top story on Hacker News: Update on My Situation
New top story on Hacker News: How to Stream Audio from Your Phone to Your Laptop with PulseAudio
Pregnancy loss: ‘He wasn’t with me when we got the bad news’
Living with IBD: Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
Week in pictures: 5-11 September 2020
Lockdown for a second time: 'It can't get any worse'
I read all those Trump tell-alls. Here's what I learned
Migrants on Lesbos: 'Europe does not exist. This is hell'
'Traditions should change' says Proms composer Errollyn Wallen
ZaraLena: Sharing my alopecia online is 'liberating'
Coronavirus: False claims test kits for ‘Covid-19’ were sold in 2017
New top story on Hacker News: A truth that works: Making sense of the world with William James
New top story on Hacker News: Principles for Naming a Brand
New top story on Hacker News: What's Wrong with Social Science: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
New top story on Hacker News: The NBC Chimes Machine (1999)
New top story on Hacker News: The Mythical DevOps Engineer
New top story on Hacker News: Poor Connections: A long history of videotelephony
Moria migrants: Greece calls for European action after fire on Lesbos
Fake driving licences offered online for £600
Breonna Taylor family: 'Hold every officer accountable'
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