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New top story on Hacker News: In Spotify, music listens to you: wins patent to surveil users’ emotions
New top story on Hacker News: Uf2: USB Flashing Format
Covid-19 school closures 'could cost pupils £40,000 in lifetime earnings'
Business leaders call for a post-Covid economic roadmap
Now and then: Iceland's vanishing glaciers
Silver surges as Reddit army turns to commodities
Saba Sahar: 'I survived a Taliban assassination attempt'
Clare Smyth: UK's first female chef with three Michelin stars
Impostor syndrome: 'I feel like I don't deserve my success'
Life in a Day: Kevin Macdonald says film 'reinforces everyone's similarities'
Music festivals and Covid: Could some events still go ahead this year?
Home working increases cyber-security fears
Romania's young history fans battle to save imperial spa resort
Saudi human rights under new spotlight in Biden era
'I worked on the vaccine my dad was given'
Accountants warned over fraud expectations
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A retrainable subtitle synchronizer you can now build your own
New top story on Hacker News: AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching
New top story on Hacker News: Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
Covid vaccine offered to all care homes in England
The school teachers helping struggling families in Covid lockdown
Brexit: How much disruption has there been so far?
New top story on Hacker News: You Don't Need Kafka
New top story on Hacker News: RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V
Covid: Pandemic 'has highlighted archaic wedding laws'
100,000 Covid deaths: ‘I cursed the sterile white room where Ann died’
New top story on Hacker News: Dodger Stadium vaccination site shut down amid protest
New top story on Hacker News: MDMA Solo – A practical guide for healing your self [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: ‘Meme stock’ rally rescues AMC theaters from $600M debt
Post-Brexit taxes for steel 'very damaging', says Kinnock
Central African Republic's capital in 'apocalyptic situation' as rebels close in
Lebanon ambulance driver: 'Hospitals can't take our Covid patients'
Coronavirus: 'Life will never be the same, for me it's better'
Your pictures on the theme of 'winter scenes'
Could a vaccine get rid of malaria for good?
UK's first Covid evacuees: 'I wish I'd stayed in Wuhan and missed flight'
UK Covid deaths: Why the 100,000 toll is so bad
Japan whale hunting: 'By-catch' rule highlighted after minke death
'When my name was butchered at school it made me feel different'
Coronavirus: How the UK dealt with its first Covid case
New top story on Hacker News: Airwindows – Free VST Plugins for Mac, Windows and Linux
New top story on Hacker News: My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television
'I was scammed out of £17,000 on Instagram'
Budget 2021: What is it and when will it happen?
New top story on Hacker News: Ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry
New top story on Hacker News: Philosophical Landmines (2013)
New top story on Hacker News: siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps
The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads
Brian Sicknick: Officer killed in Capitol riot to lie in honour
Pregnancy during lockdown: Advice from one mum to another
Video calls and bookshelves dressed to impress
Surfing duck: Pet becomes local celebrity at Australian beach
Week in pictures: 23-29 January 2021
Covid-19: Your vaccine questions answered
Lobotomy: The brain op described as ‘easier than curing a toothache’
HS2: Could the pandemic kill off the rail project?
Amsterdam drugs: Tourists face ban from cannabis cafes
Coronavirus: What's behind Latin America's oxygen shortages?
Fyodor Cherenkov: The Soviet football genius the world never got to see
New top story on Hacker News: Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR 10-bit output
New top story on Hacker News: Europe's Vaccine Disaster
New top story on Hacker News: 1938 vs. 1940 (2018)
Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize
Covid vaccines: Those that work - and the others to come
Push to ensure pupils are 'politically literate'
Australian Open to allow up to 30,000 fans to attend per day
GameStop: Who is winning the market battle?
Working from bed: 'I don't even have to get dressed'
New top story on Hacker News: Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal
Vaccination volunteers to be given Covid jab
Mother and baby homes: Eamon Martin supports public inquiry
Klarna: 'I got a £30 bill - but I've never used it'
A-Levels: How students are coping with cancelled exams
Why roller skating is making a comeback
GameStop: Meet the amateur traders fighting Wall Street
Coronavirus: How the UK dealt with its first Covid case
Quad Gods: The world-class gamers who play with their mouths
Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan re-make history in Netflix film The Dig
UK BNO visa: Can Hong Kong residents now live in the UK?
US-Mexico border: The gruesome attack that shocked a village
Satellite boom attracts technology giants
Tottenham 1-3 Liverpool: 'We knocked the wall down' - Jurgen Klopp
New top story on Hacker News: HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring
New top story on Hacker News: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements
New top story on Hacker News: Interest rates have been declining globally for the past 700 years (2020)
New top story on Hacker News: Habitat 67, Montreal's 'failed dream'
The Papers: 'Union vacc' and EU jab rollout nearing 'crisis'
New top story on Hacker News: Google started hiding over 100'000 of 1-star reviews for Robinhood app
New top story on Hacker News: High Short Interest Stocks
New top story on Hacker News: A framework that makes things worse on purpose
New top story on Hacker News: Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: krunvm – Create and run lightweight VMs from OCI images
Covid: Black over-80s 'half as likely' to have been vaccinated
Covid: Lockdown rule-breakers flee Cwmbran salon in police raid
Covid Australia: Queensland to reopen to Sydney after outbreak contained
Kristal and her students are fighting to eradicate ocean plastic
Covid-19: 'I told my kids I wasn't going to make it'
Parosmia: 'Since I had Covid, food makes me want to vomit'
Scottish independence: Will there be a second referendum?
Covid vaccines: Misleading claims targeting ethnic minority people
Chinese New Year: Clamping down on going home for the holidays
Joe Biden's tech - what can the president use?
The pilots forced to change career completely
New top story on Hacker News: Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?
New top story on Hacker News: The Ghosts of Mark Fisher
UK car production tumbles to 'worst in a generation'
English National Opera lessons for long Covid sufferers
Jagtar Singh Johal: Scot 'forced to sign blank confession' in India
Apple Christmas sales surge to $111bn amid pandemic
The Papers: 'No EU can't have our jabs' and 'schools out'
Covid: Living through lockdown in a high-rise flat
New top story on Hacker News: WSB Went Private on Reddit
New top story on Hacker News: Discord bans the r/WallStreetBets server
New top story on Hacker News: Fix Terminals
New top story on Hacker News: Time Series Density Plot
Victims lose average of £45,000 in investment scams
Insurers defend covering ransomware payments
Covid crisis: 'I've been excluded from any help'
Covid-19 vaccine: Woman to restart chemotherapy after jab
Iraq killings: Who's behind a series of murders?
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021: 'It's sad when I sit there alone'
How women played a major role in Yemen's Arab Spring
When your 'pandemic puppy' doesn't work out
Covid: Will the UK's pubs stay shut until May?
The child environmentalist receiving death threats in Colombia
Dave Grohl: 'I dreamt I was shot in the back'
New top story on Hacker News: A Very Detailed Guide on Split Keyboards and How to Build Them
New top story on Hacker News: Agent Fired from Literary Agency for Using Parler and Gab
New top story on Hacker News: JITX – Software-Defined Electronics
Chelsea Flower Show: Event moved to autumn for first time in history
Spanish Armada maps 'saved for the nation'
The Papers: Front pages mark UK's 100,000 Covid deaths
New top story on Hacker News: ARK Invest's Big Ideas 2021 [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
New top story on Hacker News: The Pros and Cons of DRY Code
New top story on Hacker News: Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine
New top story on Hacker News: How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker
New top story on Hacker News: The Chromatic Effects of Late Nineteenth-Century London Fog (2016)
Coronavirus: EU to tighten vaccine exports amid row with AstraZeneca
Poor whites in 'left behind' towns miss out on uni
Inside the hospital: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’
Covid: The migrant helping Australia with modified masks
Hope and fear as Somalia’s civil war turns 30
Covid-19: Five days that shaped the outbreak
Like a good deal? Maybe a hagglebot can help
Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris
Randy Rainbow made his name satirising Trump - now what?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: The Trump defender enters political race
New top story on Hacker News: Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology
Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary
Scientists address myths over large-scale tree planting
Extra £50m pledged for virus-hit grassroots sport
Brexit parcel price shock: 'I had to pay £30 for a gift'
Facebook News feature launches in UK
Chris Grayling leads MPs' charge to save hedgehogs
The Papers: Quarantine hotels plan and holidays 'under threat'
How Brexit shapes views on Scottish independence
New top story on Hacker News: Stash is a Go app which organizes and serves your porn
New top story on Hacker News: Future Plans for Autotools
New top story on Hacker News: Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander
New top story on Hacker News: Coffee Meets Bagel's Big Postgres Upgrade
Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early'
Covid: Police and protesters clash during Dutch curfew demo
Egypt's dreams of democracy still alive?
Pandemic diaries: How are people coping in lockdown?
Detective Jane Mugo: Meet Kenya's 'spy queen'
Covid-19: Vaccine divides in the Middle East
Katie Price on Harvey's 'terrifying' move to a specialist college
Covid: Why I'm breaking lockdown rules
Lebanon's Coronavirus lockdown: 'We can't leave our homes day or night'
Why your face could be set to replace your bank card
Can we really feel the benefits of nature through a screen?
Zuckerberg's Biden problem
Covid-19: Why the US hasn't hit vaccine targets so far
New top story on Hacker News: Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)
New top story on Hacker News: Hacking Habit Development with iOS Shortcuts
Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website'
Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled
Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments
The Papers: Schools out 'till Easter' for 'lost generation' kids
New top story on Hacker News: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet
New top story on Hacker News: The RustyHermit Unikernel: unikernel written in Rust
New top story on Hacker News: Bell Labs Holmdel Is Now Mainly a Food Court
New top story on Hacker News: Partial List of Software Patents (1992)
New top story on Hacker News: When Historical Fiction Is a Crime (2020)
Firms planned record 800,000 redundancies last year
Tse Chi Lop: Alleged Asian drug lord arrested in Amsterdam
Is this Russian cult leader a fraud?
Coronavirus: 'Lockdown made me feel like I was in prison'
'I couldn't breathe': The 26-year-old with Covid
The paper that helped the homeless
The homeless drug addict who became a history professor
Coronavirus: How the pandemic has changed the world economy
Janice Nix: The drugs kingpin who joined the Probation Service
Tunisians question whether life is better after Arab Spring
The great graphics card shortage of 2020 (and 2021)
New top story on Hacker News: Curve.fi is hiring Python (Vyper) dev and QA (py.test). Math knowledge is and+
New top story on Hacker News: Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
New top story on Hacker News: Software engineering topics I changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry
New top story on Hacker News: How Long Does a Bottle of Wine Last After It Is Opened?: Vinography
New top story on Hacker News: For the First Time in 200 Years, a New Blue Pigment Is Up for Sale
New top story on Hacker News: The Art of the Reverse Knit
The Papers: Vaccinated told to follow rules and PM's jab 'gamble'
New top story on Hacker News: MkLinux
New top story on Hacker News: FAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests
New top story on Hacker News: Tree – a lib for working with nested data structures, open-sourced by deepmind
New top story on Hacker News: A Primer on How to Work with the Usenet Community (1984)
Top doctors want 12-week Pfizer vaccine gap halved
What next for Trump - and Trumpism?
New top story on Hacker News: Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?
New top story on Hacker News: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?
National Guard: President Biden apologises over troops sleeping in car park
Covid hand-outs: How other countries pay if you are sick
Climate change: Six questions about the Cumbria coal controversy
How Joe Biden's ancestral Irish home is celebrating
Week in pictures: 16-22 January 2021
Muslim students still waiting for government funding plan
Covid vaccine: Can Wales meet its targets?
Wuhan marks its anniversary with triumph and denial
Covid-19: Five ways to avoid lockdown back pain
Rémy Julienne: Stunt king to the stars who fell to Covid
Covid-19: Nurses call for better masks to protect all staff
Up to 500 new cells to be built in women's prisons
New light shed on Charles Darwin's 'abominable mystery'
New top story on Hacker News: Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
New top story on Hacker News: New six-film series from Adam Curtis
East West and Northumberland rail lines get £794m boost
Covid: Peaky Blinders' Black Country Museum is vaccine hub
The Papers: UK 'feeling the strain' but gets vaccine 'boost'
New top story on Hacker News: Could Indoor Vertical Farms Feed Livestock?
Vaccine volunteers: 'It's felt good to fight back against Covid'
'The phone call that brought me freedom - but broke my mother's heart'
Africa's long wait for the Covid-19 vaccine
How Covid turbocharged the QR revolution
Covid-19: The NHS trust the Army is helping through the second wave
Why Sigourney Weaver had to say yes to Call My Agent
New top story on Hacker News: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia
New top story on Hacker News: Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut
New top story on Hacker News: Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning
New top story on Hacker News: How do you tag a jellyfish? (2017)
Nissan says Brexit deal 'positive' and commits to UK
Trump 'prank-called by Piers Morgan impersonator'
Covid: Half of early-years staff ‘don’t feel safe’
Covid: Museums and galleries 'fighting for survival', Art Fund says
Police arrest 320 dangerous UK child sex offenders
Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report
New top story on Hacker News: Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Coaches – Full Time Remote
New top story on Hacker News: A Computational Model for Intelligent Manufacturing
Covid in Scotland: More than 400 care homes investigated over deaths
Newspaper headlines: £500 Covid payment and flood devastation
New top story on Hacker News: Still alive
New top story on Hacker News: DDoS-Guard to forfeit internet space occupied by Parler
New top story on Hacker News: New metamaterial merges magnetic memory and physical changes
New top story on Hacker News: Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible
Kamala Harris: 'Believe in what we can do together'
New top story on Hacker News: Installing Debian on Modern Hardware
New top story on Hacker News: Inside California’s colossal container-ship traffic jam
New top story on Hacker News: Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
New top story on Hacker News: 2020 Saw Unprecedented Murder Spike in Major U.S. Cities
New top story on Hacker News: Fakery and the Russian Avant-Garde
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
Troubles victims: Thousands of relatives call for action
Inauguration fashion: Purple, pearls, and mittens
Biden inauguration: Amanda Gorman's poem The Hill We Climb in full
Covid: 'No evidence' virus levels decreasing in England
UK and EU in row over bloc's diplomatic status
Food supply problems in NI clearly a Brexit issue - Coveney
Covid: House hunters travelling 'hundreds of miles' to view homes
Elephants counted from space for conservation
Universities degree 'not the only route to success'
New top story on Hacker News: Sirum (YC W15) is hiring to help make medications affordable for all
New top story on Hacker News: In a 23-1 vote, Google vetoes Web Privacy Proposals at the W3C
New top story on Hacker News: How religion shaped modern economics
New top story on Hacker News: Ultraleap – tactile sensations projected onto your hands
New top story on Hacker News: Name Etymologies
New top story on Hacker News: The Left-NIMBY Canon
New top story on Hacker News: Exploring the role of competitive brain processes in artistic cognition
New top story on Hacker News: An interactive review of the Oklab perceptual color space
Musicians 'failed by government' over EU touring, stars say
Covid: MPs criticise HMRC over gaps in support schemes
The cartoonists making mental health their muse
Baby Done: Comedy film explores woman's reluctance at impending motherhood
New top story on Hacker News: Identifying Authorship Style in Malicious Binaries: Techniques, Challenges
Natural wonder: Wing 'clap' solves mystery of butterfly flight
NHS child gender clinic rated 'inadequate' by inspectors
Monklands ICU staff are 'physically and emotionally' drained
£23m support fund for struggling fishing firms
Covid smear-test delays prompt calls for home HPV tests
Paralysed ambulance call handler walks for 'NHS heroes'
Dinosaurs In Love: Tom Rosenthal and daughter's song made into book
Luke Grenfell-Shaw: Cycling around the world with cancer
Iran nuclear deal: What are Biden's plans and challenges
Greece #Metoo: Women ending silence of sport abuse shake Greece
Coronavirus: French students highlight pandemic's mental health toll
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Il2cpp-modder – Generate DLL injection projects for hacking Unity games
New top story on Hacker News: When costs are nonlinear, keep it small
Theresa May: PM's foreign aid cut damaged UK's moral leadership, says predecessor
Newspaper headlines: 'It's the back of Trump' and 'vaccine pivot'
New top story on Hacker News: Avian Visual Behavior and the Organization of the Telencephalon
New top story on Hacker News: The Whale Who Will Come Soon
Johnson 'glad' to see Trump go, says ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill
'My boss made me come to work and I caught Covid'
Oxford research tackles threat of antibiotic resistance
Parents' stress and depression 'rise during lockdowns'
Kyrgios criticises Djokovic over Australian Open quarantine row
First Dates: Channel 4 series will feel 'more like real life'
New top story on Hacker News: Amazon permanently shuts down Prime Pantry
New top story on Hacker News: Lease: Use time bound leases for cluster nodes to coordinate their activities
Female child sex abuse 'remains taboo' while victims struggle
Covid self-employment income support scheme unfair say mothers
Conquering K2 in winter 'together'
Biden says travel bans will stay despite Trump order
Royal Papworth Hospital proposal by man who spent Christmas alone
Melania’s jacket and nine other defining images of Trump's presidency
The Hong Kong migrants fleeing to start new lives in the UK
Olivier Duhamel: French incest allegations prompt victims to speak out
Italy smoking: Want to light up in Milan? Not any more, you can't
Why Iran’s nuclear facilities are still vulnerable to attack
How a robot investigator searched 60 million files
New top story on Hacker News: Colorize
New top story on Hacker News: New Drug Therapy Approvals 2020
Newspaper headlines: Jab complacency fears and smart motorway inquest
Covid: Brazil approves and rolls out AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines
Covid-19: The road back to Wuhan
Racism in education: How truth pages helped students fight back
Kori, nine, says transplant gives him 'another chance at life'
Yemen: The doctor alone in a Covid-ravaged hospital
Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers
Biden inauguration: How the White House gets ready for a new president
A wristband that tells your boss if you are unhappy
Russell T Davies on It's A Sin: 'We were all Aids deniers - then it got real'
Capitol riots: Are US militia groups becoming more active?
Who's exempt from wearing masks?: 'I'm scared of abuse for not wearing one'
New top story on Hacker News: Certbot deprecates operating system packages, “standardizes” on snaps
New top story on Hacker News: Soviet Pilot Escapes from POW Camp by Stealing a German Bomber and Flying Home
New top story on Hacker News: Virgin Orbit launches 10 satellites to orbit in landmark test flight
New top story on Hacker News: Just Funnin’ – the infamous “Cowboys” section of the Lucid book
Covid: UK travel corridors closure to come into force
Biden inauguration: Fortified US statehouses see scattered protests
The Papers: 'Hope in the post' as '5 million more offered jab'
New top story on Hacker News: Parler's website is back online, but app still not in stores
New top story on Hacker News: I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning
New top story on Hacker News: Why the Service Mesh Should Fade Out of Sight
New top story on Hacker News: Safari 14 added WebExtensions support. So where are the extensions?
New top story on Hacker News: Apple II Basic Bot
New top story on Hacker News: The First Blue Pigment Discovered in 200 Years Is Finally Commercially Available
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: RemoteClub – Best cities to work remotely across the world
New top story on Hacker News: Everything About React Server Components
New top story on Hacker News: Signal Is Back
New top story on Hacker News: Tiny PDP11 on an ESP32
Covid: 10 new mass vaccination centres to open in England
Covid-19 vaccines: Prince William 'proud' of Queen and duke for getting jabs
G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer
The Papers: 'Quarantine hotels' and jab for over-18s 'by June'
The man startling millions of starlings with lasers
Lockdown mental health: Tips for helping your child
Fighting for the Parthenon marbles
Magicians mark 100 years of 'sawing woman in half' trick
Your pictures on the theme of 'my hobby'
Lekki toll gate shootings: What really happened?
Covid vaccine patients treated to live organ music at Salisbury Cathedral
Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government
Avenue Beat: How do the F2020 singers avoid becoming a one-hit wonder?
Shukatsu sexism: The Japanese jobseekers fighting discrimination
Will the Trump corporate backlash make a difference?
Are women let down by period trackers?
New top story on Hacker News: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
New top story on Hacker News: Dave's Short Course on Complex Numbers
New top story on Hacker News: OneSignal (Messaging and Push Notification APIs) is hiring a back end engineer
New top story on Hacker News: Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement
New top story on Hacker News: Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
New top story on Hacker News: The sources of misinformation that thrived in Parler
New top story on Hacker News: How to Analyze Volume Profiles with Python
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Karma, a CLI-first dev gamification engine
New top story on Hacker News: Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?
New top story on Hacker News: The surprisingly difficult problem of user-defined order in SQL
New top story on Hacker News: Exploring Swap on FreeBSD
US Election 2020: What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?
Boris Johnson says girls' education key to ending poverty
Joanna Lumley 'shocked' at claims disabled workers unpaid
Nóra Quoirin: 'Compelling evidence' of abduction
New top story on Hacker News: Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic particles from water
The Papers: 'Fortress Britain' and 'modern miracle workers'
Can supermarket security guards help with mask rules?
Project 17: One girl's quest for clean water in Rwanda
Martin Luther King Jr: New documentary on FBI surveillance
Dinosaurs In Love: Tom Rosenthal and daughter's song made into book
New top story on Hacker News: State of JavaScript 2020
New top story on Hacker News: Rust is a hard way to make a web API
New top story on Hacker News: Jeffrey Epsteins Little Black-Book Unredacted [pdf]
New top story on Hacker News: English as She Is Spoke
North Korea unveils new submarine-launched missile
Small businesses await Covid insurance case ruling
New top story on Hacker News: Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World
New top story on Hacker News: William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020)
New top story on Hacker News: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials
New top story on Hacker News: Debian 11 “bullseye” freeze started
New top story on Hacker News: Hungry men exposed to blue light are sensitive to Earth's magnetic field
New top story on Hacker News: Goodbye Gutwhale (2020)
'It kind of makes debt cool – and it's not'
Young, black and more likely to die in Brazil
Johan 'N0tail' Sundstein: Inside the world's richest esports player's mansion
Colourising historical photos of the civil rights movement
Brexit: 'most difficult week I've had in this job in 20 years'
New top story on Hacker News: Mini-Microsoft
New top story on Hacker News: Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages
Biden unveils $1.9tn US economic relief package
The Papers: Infection rate 'hope' - but care home cases rise
New top story on Hacker News: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
New top story on Hacker News: The Role-Profiles Pattern Across Infrastructure as Code
Brexit: No plans to dilute workers' rights, minister says
New top story on Hacker News: Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data
New top story on Hacker News: The 'megascale' structures that humans could one day build
New top story on Hacker News: Beating Up on Qsort (2019)
Covid-19: High Street chemists start vaccinations in England
Past Covid-19 infection may provide 'months of immunity'
Covid-19: Passengers told to check train times as routes cut
Africa secures 270m Covid-19 vaccine doses
Covid-19: Packed hospitals raised death risk by 20%
Bosses failing to support domestic abuse victims, says government
Rap against Dictatorship: The rappers taking on Thailand's leaders
Covid priority list: When will I get the Covid vaccine?
Trump impeachment: Republicans defend - and some attack - president
Australia: Spectacular ‘tree of life’ found in lake
Has coronavirus made us more ethical consumers?
Steelers: How anti-gay row inspired rugby film
Coronavirus: How safe are takeaways and supermarket deliveries?
Evaristo de Macedo: The record-breaking Brazilian loved by Barca & Madrid
New top story on Hacker News: Facebooks role in Capitol Protest larger than previously thought
New top story on Hacker News: Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler’s Inability to Stay Online Is 'Embarrassing'
New top story on Hacker News: The Only M1 Benchmark That Matters
New top story on Hacker News: El Anatsui Broke the Seal on Contemporary Art
Covid-19: New test rule for UK arrivals pushed back to Monday
The Papers: 'Over 21m jabs now in UK', and Trump impeached
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A Heart Rate Monitor App Written in Vanilla JavaScript
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
New top story on Hacker News: Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode
China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy
Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot
Is this the world's smartest face mask?
Covid: 'Money is tight, I think about it every day'
Drill and rap music on trial
Indonesia coronavirus: The vaccination drive targeting younger people
New top story on Hacker News: Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight (2019)
Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows
'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled
'Ndrangheta group: Italy braces for biggest mafia trial in decades
Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon
David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app
Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority
Quiz: How much do you know about the new Covid rules?
Covid: NHS doctor 'receives 20 to 30 abusive messages a day'
Mental Health Act: 'I was sectioned and no one told me what was going on'
Gavin Williamson: Machiavelli or Private Pike?
New top story on Hacker News: Great Expectations: data testing, documentation, and profiling
The Papers: Patients 'sent to hotels' and jab rollout concerns
New top story on Hacker News: Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU in Next Exynos Flagship
New top story on Hacker News: Why Apple Chose Clang (2008)
New top story on Hacker News: 'Parler Has a Right to Exist,' Says Vitalik Buterin. Can Ethereum Help?
Covid-19: Rule-breakers 'increasingly likely' to be fined - Cressida Dick
Bill Belichick: NFL coach turns down Presidential Medal of Freedom
Plastic surgery: Surgeons who target black women and use influencers for promotion
Retail sales in 2020 worst on record, says BRC trade body
Which Covid vaccine is better? Pfizer v Oxford v Moderna
Covid: Eyesight risk warning from lockdown screen time
Ocean pollutants 'have negative effect on male fertility'
Cuba placed back on US terrorism sponsor list
Stammering: 'I thought it made me a failure'
Why this female garbage truck driver hopes more women will join her
20-year-old Covid patient couldn't tell parents 'I love you'
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