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NHS 'refuses' medical cannabis for children with epilepsy
New top story on Hacker News: Yet another alternative to floating-point numbers
New top story on Hacker News: Intent to stop using null in my (JavaScript) code
New top story on Hacker News: BCON20 – Blender Conference: Together Apart
New top story on Hacker News: The story of the PDF
The Papers: PM's lockdown 'U-turn', and 'Goodbye Mr Bond'
Your pictures on the theme of 'urban living'
Salvaged Victorian signal box to become museum
The Miraculous Love Kids: Street kids changing their lives with guitars
The wedding DJ who wants to stop migrant boats
How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Human cost of two nations fighting for 'Motherland'
How His House turns refugee lives into horror film
New top story on Hacker News: Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review
Covid: What will the England lockdown achieve?
Covid-19: Austria and Portugal announce restrictions
Oleksandr Usyk beats Derek Chisora on points in stylish display
Typhoon Goni: Philippines hit by year's most powerful storm
New top story on Hacker News: China's Draft 'Personal Information Protection Law' (Full Translation)
New top story on Hacker News: Nat Slipstreaming
New top story on Hacker News: AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball
New top story on Hacker News: Ropes, an Alternative to Strings [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: Goodbye, Native Apps
New top story on Hacker News: Distributed Systems Learning Notes
New top story on Hacker News: Fear of white space
Coronavirus: US sees record-high daily Covid numbers as election nears
New top story on Hacker News: Art After the Plague: How painters through the ages have responded to contagion
Stockton food bank: 'Dealers don't swap drugs for a tin of beans'
New top story on Hacker News: Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease
Growing up as a black child in post-war Germany
Bhangra brothers: We danced every day in lockdown
Scared but socially distant in a Tokyo 'haunted house'
Halloween: How the Boulet Brothers' Dragula blends drag and horror
Covid: A town's intoxicating will to press on through the pandemic
Climate change: You've got cheap data, how about cheap power too?
Coronavirus: Slovakia holds national test but president calls for delay
Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and her dad: Should we make holograms of the dead?
Coronavirus: Is virtual reality tourism about to take off?
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
Covid: When will it be over and we can do this again?
'Millions face hardship' as government support ends
The Papers: 'National lockdown looms' and Stiles tributes
New top story on Hacker News: New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light
New top story on Hacker News: How to Deal with Extreme Physical Pain
New top story on Hacker News: Generating bingo cards with clojure.spec, Clojure/test.check, RDD and TDD
New top story on Hacker News: Cecilia Chiang, SF chef who brought authentic Chinese food to US, dies at 100
Covid: Nottinghamshire moves into tier 3 restrictions
Jeremy Corbyn suspension 'could cost Labour next election'
Covid-19: Record traffic out of Paris as second French lockdown begins
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: UK expresses 'grave concern' over fresh court proceedings
New Zealand euthanasia: Assisted dying to be legal for terminally ill people
Armenians on the front line in Nagorno-Karabakh
Coronavirus hardship in Mexico, Nigeria and Bangladesh
Guy Davies spots gap in film market for his first feature
Planning reforms aim to making building easier, but who wins?
Quiz of the week: Which Borat slogan did Kazakhstan embrace?
Carrie Hope Fletcher on how Cinderella went 'bad'
Getting too many texts? Blame the election
Oil firm whistleblower trapped in Croatian holiday hell
New top story on Hacker News: Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
New top story on Hacker News: DeepSource (YC W20) Is hiring software engineers
US Election 2020: Trump and Biden duel in critical state of Florida
New top story on Hacker News: Blair Witch is free from Epic Games
New top story on Hacker News: Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption
New top story on Hacker News: The Corporatization of Nursing Homes
New top story on Hacker News: Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)
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: Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers
New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method
'Anonymous' Trump administration critic identifies himself
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: Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails
New top story on Hacker News: A Bayesian Perspective on Q-Learning
Labour anti-Semitism report due to be published
Wales urged to scrap GCSE exams in favour of assessments
Covid: 1,700 employers planned redundancies in September
Al-Qaeda still 'heavily embedded' within Taliban in Afghanistan, UN official warns
Music industry reports progress on diversity
Animal Crossing: 'My sister lives on in a video game'
End Sars protests: 'I felt I was going to die there'
Big House theatre group helping young care leavers
How do 'Blue Wall' voters rate the Tories one year on?
Meet Che Lingo, the 'woke rapper' signed by Idris Elba
CEO Secrets: The aviation workers starting new businesses
Muttiah Muralitharan on the 'challenge' of his disputed biopic
New top story on Hacker News: Bullet Train: Open-source feature flagging
Covid-19: Nearly 100,000 catching virus every day
New top story on Hacker News: Bazel Build System Support for LLVM
New top story on Hacker News: Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age
New top story on Hacker News: Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics
Philadelphia rocked by fresh unrest after police shooting
Covid: Post-furlough unemployment 'hits young and ethnic minorities'
Mum, Dad, money and me
Danny and Dani Dyer launch new podcast to solve your problems
Black History Month: ‘People are afraid to say the wrong thing’
Surviving a week in Afghanistan
New top story on Hacker News: Google's new logos are bad
New top story on Hacker News: Per Brinch Hansen books on compilers scanned, page updated
New top story on Hacker News: Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation
‘Shops refusing cash left me unable to buy basics’
Police in Scotland break up hundreds of parties
Fluffy animals gambling ad was irresponsible, says watchdog
How KSI earned more than his teachers by playing Fifa
New top story on Hacker News: OnlyFans Faces Allegations of Fraud, Theft
New top story on Hacker News: The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year
New top story on Hacker News: ClipDrop AR Copy Paste
Covid-19: Christmas guidance 'should be same across UK'
US election: Biden hits new battleground, Trump blitzes Midwest
Newspaper headlines: Second wave warning and 'tragedy in the Channel'
Covid-19: 'I'll be hosting my Christmas over Zoom'
Skin cancer: How do I check my moles for signs of melanoma?
New top story on Hacker News: John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'
New top story on Hacker News: D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic
New top story on Hacker News: The fog of war in healthcare
Covid-19: Warrington moves into tier 3 restrictions
Covid has thrived on racial discrimination, says Baroness Doreen Lawrence
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson's loss after brother's Covid death
US election 2020: Could postal voting upend the US election?
Beached: Can rescuers save this dolphin in time?
East London mural honours NHS workforce
Nasa announcement: What is on the Moon?
Covid: Melbourne's hard-won success after a marathon lockdown
The inventor inspired by wanting to keep his daughter safe
Social media: Is it really biased against US Republicans?
The Lathums: From a sold-out tour to clowning around in a circus
New top story on Hacker News: Org Mode's New Site
New top story on Hacker News: Joey Chestnut
New top story on Hacker News: The Need for Touch
New top story on Hacker News: The Nordic concept of friluftsliv – outdoor life
Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to US Supreme Court
Covid: Antibodies 'fall rapidly after infection'
Victoria Derbyshire: 'I'll break the rule of six if it applies at Christmas'
Newspaper headlines: 'Red wall revolt' and Covid immunity warning
New top story on Hacker News: Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over YouTube-dl takedown demand
New top story on Hacker News: Get $15,000 to move to Michigan and work remotely
New top story on Hacker News: NYC taxi meter and options pricing
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: (Eacc) PLY Lex-Yacc alternative in Python
Boris Johnson and Priti Patel 'should apologise for lawyer attacks'
HMP Rye Hill prison officer 'failed to notice' dead sex offender
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why can't nuclear waste be launched into the sun?
New top story on Hacker News: Mexican Chernobyl, the Biggest Nuclear Accident in the American Continent (2019)
New top story on Hacker News: The RIAA's fraudulent attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA §512 infringement
Olivier Awards: Messages of 'faith and hope' for theatre
Coronavirus: Local lockdowns 'stifling jobs recovery'
BHS collapse: 'I was in charge of millions, then I had nothing'
Coronavirus: How my mum became a conspiracy theory influencer
US election: 'Help! Everyone around me disagrees with my politics'
Black and Welsh: The assumptions and questions people face
Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'We blame Eat Out To Help Out for our tragedy'
Covid nurse: 'I thought I wasn't going to make it'
My Money: 'We haven't got Covid here yet'
Egypt sex attacks fuel 'feminist revolution'
New top story on Hacker News: Tech Dilemma: Unfilled jobs, few workers, lack of confidence in STEM education
New top story on Hacker News: Covert Listening Devices Used by Stasi
'Generation Covid' hit hard by the pandemic, research reveals
France urges Arab nations to prevent boycotts over Macron's cartoons defence
The Papers: 'Nine-minute tanker raid' and PM faces 'revolt'
New top story on Hacker News: New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
New top story on Hacker News: When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece
Samsung Group titan Lee Kun-hee dies aged 78
Black Lives Matter: New hidden slave trade sites in Wales revealed
New top story on Hacker News: Pale Moon migrating source code from GitHub
New top story on Hacker News: YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
New top story on Hacker News: The Internet Archive is temporarily offline
New top story on Hacker News: Local Solar Time
Coronavirus: 14-day quarantine for Covid contacts could be reduced
France recalls Turkey envoy after Erdogan says Macron needs 'mental check'
Brexit: Cost of everyday goods 'could rise' without a deal, hauliers warn
New top story on Hacker News: SK-Intel NAND deal points to wider shake-up of chip sector
New top story on Hacker News: Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-hee has died
New top story on Hacker News: Origami Simulator
New top story on Hacker News: Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard
New top story on Hacker News: IMF Conference: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) for Cross-Border Payments
New top story on Hacker News: Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
New top story on Hacker News: No More Bold Visions of the Future
New top story on Hacker News: Hermione Lee on How to Write a Life
New top story on Hacker News: Binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool
New top story on Hacker News: Boston Dynamics Spot Measured Background Radiation in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Climate change: Technology no silver bullet, experts tell PM
New top story on Hacker News: Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics
New top story on Hacker News: Pandoc: Swiss-army knife document converter
New top story on Hacker News: The Rome Toolchain: A linter, compiler, bundler, and more
Coronavirus: US cases reach record high amid new wave of infections
Why AI live fact-checked the 2020 US presidential debates
New top story on Hacker News: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2019)
New top story on Hacker News: Scientists Discover Unmarked Coffins in Search for 1921 Tulsa Massacre Victims
New top story on Hacker News: The Children of the Opera
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: 'Execution' video prompts war crime probe
Shakespeare's Globe among venues to get slice of Culture Recovery Fund
What happens when a Banksy appears?
New top story on Hacker News: Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming
New top story on Hacker News: Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU code
US election 2020: How Trump has changed the world
School meals: Rashford 'proud' of community response
Rare green puppy 'Pistachio' born in Italy
Marathon walk for 104-year-old inspired by Captain Tom
Mysterious 'Robin Hood' hackers donating stolen money
New name for a Canadian town called Asbestos
Baby born in lorry cab meets staff who saved her life
Is Scotland moving towards independence?
'It feels so good to be back dancing'
Porn effects: 'My expectations of sex and body image were warped'
How the End Sars protests have changed Nigeria forever
New top story on Hacker News: Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting
New top story on Hacker News: Deprecating SHA1
New top story on Hacker News: Linux Developers Discussing Possible Kernel Driver for Intel CPU Undervolting
US Election 2020: Trump and Biden trade accusations of corruption
New top story on Hacker News: Spotify revises TOS to allow transfers of user-created playlists
New top story on Hacker News: You can no longer reinstall Adobe CS 2 or 3 even with original install disks
New top story on Hacker News: Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with her readers
US candidates row about foreign money
Australia child abuse: Police arrest 44 suspects and rescue 16 children
Covid: Pembrokeshire man in Italian facility happy to be home
New top story on Hacker News: Faculty Job Openings at US Colleges Down 70%
New top story on Hacker News: Email cannot be encrypted at rest and this cannot be fixed
Covid: Tougher restriction begin for millions in England and Wales
Covid: US gives full approval for antiviral remdesivir drug
New top story on Hacker News: My life countdown – Kevin Kelly's death clock
New top story on Hacker News: Rust core team promotes Linux on 64-bit Arm to Tier-1 supported platform status
New top story on Hacker News: XMHell: Handling 38GB of UTF-16 XML with Rust
New top story on Hacker News: The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented (2017)
Wrecks visible in River Severn 60 years after disaster
Brexit: Why is fishing a stumbling block in the trade talks?
New top story on Hacker News: First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
New top story on Hacker News: Elm vs. PureScript
New top story on Hacker News: Seamlessly Swapping the API back end of the Netflix Android app
New top story on Hacker News: To Eleventy and Beyond
New top story on Hacker News: Writing Is Thinking
Will cruise ships return to Venice?
Nagorno-Karabakh: The Armenian-Azeri 'information wars'
Carlos Acosta: Refashioning ballet with socially distanced tutus
Thailand protest: Why young activists are embracing Hong Kong's tactics
New top story on Hacker News: Notes on My Colon Cancer
New top story on Hacker News: No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov
US election 2020: Trump's impact on immigration - in seven charts
Brexit: UK to ban more EU citizens with criminal records
'My stammer has made 2020 more difficult'
US election: Joe Biden or Donald Trump? Persuading an undecided voter
Melbourne lockdown: Cycling trend ‘burbing’ takes off under tight restrictions
Coronavirus: 'I caught Covid at my uncle's funeral'
Camper-van conversion: 'We sold all our possessions to go live in a van'
Tanzania President John Magufuli: The man who 'banned' coronavirus
New top story on Hacker News: Build a startup financial model from scratch
New top story on Hacker News: Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save the Monarchy
Ethnic minority Covid risk 'not explained by racism'
Trump's lawyer Giuliani dismisses 'compromising' clip from new Borat film
Martin Bashir: BBC journalist 'seriously unwell' from Covid
CQC report: Care of people with learning disabilities 'inhumane'
The Papers: Care staff 'ordered to work in one home only'
New top story on Hacker News: Germany's Bundeskabinett approves draft law allowing WhatsApp/Messenger backdoor
New top story on Hacker News: William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno
Wrestling: Nadia Sapphire was 'harassed and groomed'
'Cost of removing cladding is ripping our lives apart'
New top story on Hacker News: SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE
New top story on Hacker News: Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Mapipedia – Map your geotagged photos
Nigeria unrest: Protesters 'shot dead' in Lagos
Covid: China's Sinovac vaccine to be included in Brazil immunisation plan
Five ways the virus has changed Netflix
US election 2020: Why it can be hard to vote in the US
CEO Secrets: Juggling kids and a new lockdown business
Clare Balding: 'Animals have shaped me more than people'
Covid: How to protest during a global pandemic
Why the US election could decide battle against climate change
New top story on Hacker News: Discipline Doesn’t Scale
Elderly couple, married for 60 years, reunited after 215 days apart
Royal Mail launches 72p parcel pick-up service
Machines to 'do half of all work tasks by 2025'
Elation as Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe tags asteroid Bennu in sample bid
Coronavirus: 'I just wish my parents were still here'
Christie hospital: Inside Europe's largest cancer unit
Love Island’s Shaughna: ‘I was trolled for my fat legs’
New top story on Hacker News: Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
New top story on Hacker News: Raymarching with Fennel and LÖVE
US election 2020: Trump and Biden feud over debate topics
'Mocked' Mini Metro turns 40 and finds new fans
RSPB Snettisham hosts record-breaking knot wildlife spectacular
New top story on Hacker News: The Beginner's Guide to Arguing Constructively
New top story on Hacker News: The Rise and Fall of Quicksand (2010)
First UK airport testing for outward passengers
Bletchley Park’s contribution to WW2 'over-rated'
New name for a Canadian town called Asbestos
Mysterious 'Robin Hood' hackers donating stolen money
The Papers: Lockdown 'by back door' and virus 'hidden victims'
Marathon walk for 104-year-old inspired by Captain Tom
Black Lives Matter: Orchestra creates music inspired by iconic moment
Eating jellyfish: Why scientists are talking up a 'perfect food'
How clothes reflect growing Oromo ethnic pride in Ethiopia
Samuel Paty: Beheading of teacher deepens divisions over France's secular identity
'I'm Bengali, my boyfriend was black - and my mum freaked out'
'We had more than 60 calls from test-and-trace'
The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
How The Staves found their way back to music after grief, doubt and bereavement
Coronavirus: How pollution could make India’s Covid fight tougher
New top story on Hacker News: Mission Protocol, a Coinbase-Inspired Code of Conduct
New top story on Hacker News: Uber: “Yes on Prop 22” popups shown to drivers
New top story on Hacker News: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
New top story on Hacker News: Neurosymbolic AI – Combining neural nets and symbolic AI
Covid lockdown: Wales poised for decision on circuit-breaker
Brexit: Anglican archbishops issue Internal Markets Bill warning
Right-wing nationalist Ersin Tatar wins in northern Cyprus
New top story on Hacker News: Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016
New top story on Hacker News: Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015)
Endometriosis care needs urgent improvement, MPs say
Birmingham pub bombings: Priti Patel to look at case for inquiry
Coronavirus: People to get emergency help to pay energy bills
Bank of England boss: Best to 'act aggressively'
Sudan khalwas: Undercover in the schools that chain boys
Instagram filters: 'You can't wear my skin for likes'
Anti-Trump TikTokkers not declaring paid content
Far-right online: 'I got them back on social media'
Could cold water hold a clue to a dementia cure?
The place in North America with no Covid-19 cases
'The fake reporter wanted to know about our software'
US election 2020: What are Trump's and Biden's policies?
Covid: What the tier rules say about the split between science and politics
New top story on Hacker News: Faster Web App Delivery with PRPL
New top story on Hacker News: House Hunting in France: A Once-in-a-Millennium Castle for $3.3M
New top story on Hacker News: Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods
New top story on Hacker News: Cursed Elixir
US woman faces first federal execution since 1953
Covid in Scotland: Tax-free support call for self-isolation
Lesbos: What really happened in the refugee camp destroyed by flames?
New top story on Hacker News: We deleted the production database by accident
New top story on Hacker News: Visually Debugging a 6052 Assembly Program
New top story on Hacker News: Algorand Consensus Protocol
New top story on Hacker News: An Intel MCS-48 based dual temperature sensor
Strictly Come Dancing launch sees Nicola Adams and Katya Jones paired
New top story on Hacker News: Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
New top story on Hacker News: The Artist Who Does Extreme Close-Ups of Utility Poles
New top story on Hacker News: Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)
New top story on Hacker News: Lisp from Nothing
Philippines: Environmentalists criticise artificial beach in Manila Bay
Coronavirus: Man, 100, relives family holidays by painting
Your pictures on the theme of 'life in the water'
Climate change: Arctic Circle teens call for help to save their homes
‘I hugged the man who murdered my father’
Coronavirus and care homes: The pensioners suffering through isolation
Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'We're no longer heroes - this is the new normal'
How smart devices are exploited for domestic abuse
New top story on Hacker News: ArsDigita: From Startup to Bust-Up (2001)
New top story on Hacker News: Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
New top story on Hacker News: The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)
New top story on Hacker News: Charles Lindbergh Is the Reason We Still Don’t Have Cameras in the Courtroom
New top story on Hacker News: Tech investor attempts to compel U.S. journalist to identify confidential source
New top story on Hacker News: iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple
New top story on Hacker News: At what grade level do presidential candidates debate at?
New top story on Hacker News: What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school
Macron calls Paris beheading 'Islamist terrorist attack'
Covid: How worried should we be?
Azerbaijan at war: Reporter’s journal
Drivers to be banned from picking up mobile phones
School meals: Labour backs Marcus Rashford campaign
Climate change action sidelined by Covid-19, say young activists
Week in pictures: 10-16 October 2020
US election: Are white women voters wavering on Trump?
Ammonite: Who was the real Mary Anning?
Meet Merck Mercuriadis, the man who has spent $1bn on old hits
My Money: 'Most of our spending is on our son'
Coronavirus: Is there a future for street fundraising?
New top story on Hacker News: He Married a Sociopath: Me
New top story on Hacker News: Pippi and the Moomins
New top story on Hacker News: HTML5 Accelerator Card
New top story on Hacker News: Does C++ still deserve the bad rap it has had for so long?
New top story on Hacker News: N.H. Announces It Will Sue Massachusetts over Cross-Border Income Tax Collection
New top story on Hacker News: What Is Philosophy? A survey of some answers
US election: Trump declines to disavow QAnon conspiracy theory
Extreme weather: October downpour sees UK's wettest day on record
Parkour group marks 10 years on YouTube with 6.5m subscribers
'I've gone months with no information about the future'
'I'm sick of influencers asking for free cake'
New top story on Hacker News: 'Long Covid' may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say
New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern's key leadership moments
Top US journalist suspended after false Twitter hacking claims
Covid: Wales ban on people visiting from UK hotspots begins
Quiz of the week: Christmas shopping, Queen's Birthday Honours and bombs
Liverpool restrictions: 'Living alone and blind'
Portugal's radical decision to decriminalise all drugs
Amina: The Afghan girl who survived a shooting at two hours old
US election 2020: How would Biden change foreign policy?
Gyms and coronavirus: What are the facts?
Afghanistan conflict: The families caught in crossfire on Helmand front line
Victoria Wood biography explores her 'painful' childhood
New jets promise to revive supersonic travel
New top story on Hacker News: Transmutations observed from pressure cycling palladium
New top story on Hacker News: Army Dissects Black Hawk Helicopter, Scans Parts for 3D Printing
New top story on Hacker News: What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
New top story on Hacker News: A family of CRDT's supporting both State and Op based replication in Rust
New top story on Hacker News: The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
Covid-19: What it's like to live under Tier 2 restrictions
'I fear being a forgotten casualty of pandemic'
Marcus Rashford welcomes Wales' extra free school meals
Down's syndrome language: 'No-one meant anything hurtful"
Coronavirus: Are some soaps better than others?
Idris Elba: We can all help solve climate change
Brexit: What has happened since 31 January?
The gay MPs persecuted for opposing appeasement of Nazi Germany
Is Australia really seeing more shark attacks?
The rape survivors facing an ‘impossible choice’ in Brazil
'I know pilots who are driving for Sainsbury's now'
Covid: Family of seven's one-bedroom flat lockdown 'hell'
New top story on Hacker News: Jack: Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great
New top story on Hacker News: Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
New top story on Hacker News: Re-Thinking the Desktop OS
New top story on Hacker News: I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts
New top story on Hacker News: Mozilla RegretsReporter
New top story on Hacker News: Acoustic Kitty
New top story on Hacker News: Filippo Buonanni's Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
Trump taxes: A 'fundamentally unfair' system?
The BTS fans investing in their favourite K-pop band
New top story on Hacker News: Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals
Brexit: Why France is raising the stakes over fishing
US election 2020: Do celebrity endorsements help Joe Biden?
New top story on Hacker News: Propaganda, Censorship, and Surveillance are all attributes of Monopoly
New top story on Hacker News: How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux
New top story on Hacker News: The Modern Lives of Ancient Symbols
New top story on Hacker News: Whitespace, the Language
NZ election: The people left behind in Ardern's 'kind' New Zealand
Karabakh war leaves civilians shell-shocked and bitter
CEO Secrets: Older women strike out in lockdown
Mennel: 'I thought about giving up music'
The battle over what US children learn about American history
Searching for the truth about Belly Mujinga
US election 2020: What does place that predicts presidents say this time?
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust
New top story on Hacker News: Commodore Amiga could get a mini/classic version next year
New top story on Hacker News: Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'
New top story on Hacker News: Other Things Equal (1992) [pdf]
Ada Lovelace Day: '2020 has been a hard slog'
Creating fuel from thin air with artificial leaves
New top story on Hacker News: Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience
New top story on Hacker News: Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce
LeBron James leads Lakers to first NBA title in a decade
New top story on Hacker News: Johns Hopkins Poker Course
New top story on Hacker News: The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck music
Should I get a flu jab this winter?
André do Rap: Brazil crime boss goes on the run after release from prison
Coronavirus: How blind school in Worcester is keeping pupils safe
Sculptor in Nigeria creates black prosthetic hand for his brother
South Africa: Is 'black tax' help or a burden?
New top story on Hacker News: Why Read Boethius Today?
'Heartbreaking insight' into the impact of lockdown
Bash the entertainer: 'To fight racism I used comedy'
How is the plan for 48 hospitals going?
How to get promoted when working from home
Strictly Come Dancing: 12 things we learned from this year's celebs
New top story on Hacker News: The Anti-Social Novelist
New top story on Hacker News: Stories in Formaldehyde: The Strange Pleasures of Taxonomizing Plot
Coronavirus: Turkey farmers worried over downsized Christmas dinners
New top story on Hacker News: Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime
Pub desks: Sick of home working? I made the pub my office for a day
‘We were students negotiating with armed guerrillas for my father’s life’
US election 2020: The other 1,214 candidates running for president
Smash and Angel Delight: 'The mixer that helped my family through hard times'
Why Paloma Faith is talking frankly about pregnancy
New top story on Hacker News: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era
New top story on Hacker News: A Prayer for Archimedes
US election 2020: 'QAnon might affect how my friends vote'
The long journey of the West Highland Way
New top story on Hacker News: How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Nightclubs reopening: 'There's no end in sight'
Why Covid could remove barriers for women in the car industry
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