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Boy in tent Max Woosey ends three-year charity challenge
New top story on Hacker News: The Playing Field
Hundreds of UK sex offenders went missing, figures show
New top story on Hacker News: How they filmed The Last of Us arcade scene
Woman single-handedly takes on BA over vouchers and wins
New top story on Hacker News: Unfolder for Mac – a 3D modelcreating papercraft
New Zealand beat England following one of all-time great finishes
New top story on Hacker News: The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting
Green flights not in easy reach, warn scientists
New top story on Hacker News: pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
Thai drug dealer had plastic surgery to look like Korean man, police say
New top story on Hacker News: Toy CPU Simulator
New top story on Hacker News: A Brief Hobbyist Primer on Clipping Diodes
Ukraine war: How Russia took the south - and then got stuck
New top story on Hacker News: Maya Deren, the symbol and champion of American experimental film (2022)
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: AI Files – manage and organize your files with AI
NI Protocol: Questions to ask about a possible new deal
New top story on Hacker News: Oops, You Wrote a Database
Alex Murdaugh trial: Power, privilege, and the downfall of a dynasty
New top story on Hacker News: The Graph Programming Language GP [pdf]
Dilbert comic strip dropped by US media over creator's racist tirade
New top story on Hacker News: An Online Archive of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead
NI Protocol: UK and EU appear to be on brink of new Brexit deal
New top story on Hacker News: Elixir for Humans Who Know Python
Earthquake: Cardiff, Caerphilly and valleys feel tremors
New top story on Hacker News: My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
New top story on Hacker News: PrayGen: ChatGPT for Generating Prayers
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: While painting this, I had nothing in mind
England's archaeological history gathers dust as museums fill up
New top story on Hacker News: The mysterious inner life of the octopus
Omagh police shooting: Fourth arrest after John Caldwell attack
New top story on Hacker News: Against predictive optimization
New top story on Hacker News: You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)
New top story on Hacker News: Model-driven systems with Zen-lang [video]
Welsh island has one of darkest skies in world
New top story on Hacker News: The Reaction Economy
Cost of living: Buying a tiny house helps couple tackle crisis
New top story on Hacker News: Lessons from 35 Years of Newsletter Publishing
Train information systems working again after outage
New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft and Nvidia Announce Expansive New Gaming Deal
Biden administration proposes strict asylum restrictions at border
New top story on Hacker News: 'The Problem Index' – Which Countries Have the Worst Demographics
New top story on Hacker News: The Guide to Hazmat Suits and PPE (2022)
New top story on Hacker News: A pharaoh with 100 children bungled his succession
City of London market plans run into sheep trouble
New top story on Hacker News: The end of Type 1
George Santos tells Piers Morgan: I've been a terrible liar
New top story on Hacker News: Dots Will Be Connected
New top story on Hacker News: IBM 5251 terminal USB conversion (but not what you think) – deskthority
Baftas 2023 highlights: From the Batmobile to a drunken Pinocchio
New top story on Hacker News: A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance
Brewdog: UK craft beer giant expands into China
New top story on Hacker News: Flying Planes with Python and JavaScript
China may give Russia weapons for Ukraine war, Anthony Blinken warns
New top story on Hacker News: Queues should be empty
New top story on Hacker News: The Stutterer (2011)
New top story on Hacker News: Direct Sockets: Proposal for a future web platform API
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Has ChatGPT gotten worse at coding for anyone else?
Baftas: Journalist Christo Grozev banned over security risks
Week in pictures: 11-17 February 2023
New top story on Hacker News: First Impressions of the VisionFive 2
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Coerce – Distributed actor framework in Rust
Andrew Tate threatens legal action against accuser
New top story on Hacker News: Better to micromanage than be disengaged
New top story on Hacker News: I don't like making the best things
Watch: Woman forced to fight off attacker in gym
New top story on Hacker News: Once Upon a Time in Agile
Turkey earthquake: The warnings at the luxury apartments that turned to dust
New top story on Hacker News: A Wiser Sympathy: theorizing plant intelligence in the nineteenth century
New top story on Hacker News: ‘Perfect explosion’: merger of neutron stars creates spherical cosmic blast
The teenager who cycled from Alaska to Argentina
New top story on Hacker News: China’s police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
Ukraine war: Inside a prisoner of war camp for Russians
New top story on Hacker News: CA's Prohibition on Workplace Arbitration Agreements Overturned by 9th Circuit
Thai cave rescue: Duangpetch Promthep, Wild Boars captain, dies in UK
New top story on Hacker News: Is This Rustic Southern European Booze the Next Mezcal?
Brian Haw memorial: Sir Mark Rylance leads campaign
New top story on Hacker News: Tesla workers launch union campaign
Sandwich chain Subway explores sale of business
New top story on Hacker News: The "specialness spiral" leads us to not use some ordinary objects (2021)
New top story on Hacker News: Using Lua with C++
New top story on Hacker News: People can read their manager's mind
Wages rise but fail to keep up with inflation
New top story on Hacker News: Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (2015) [video]
Ukraine war: Migrants in Russia forced to fight in Putin's war
New top story on Hacker News: The Lights Wink Out in Asia
'I'm not going to let romance fraudster beat me'
New top story on Hacker News: Working at Google: Maps
New top story on Hacker News: MIT Lectures: The Future of AI Is Self-Supervised Learning and Foundation Models
Asteroid lights up sky above English Channel
New top story on Hacker News: NoSQL: The Baby and the Bathwater
New top story on Hacker News: ImagineAI: A code generator that turns your app spec into a Node project
Teenage girl dies after being found in Warrington park with injuries
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: PyCirclize – Circular Visualization in Python
New top story on Hacker News: Hacking Your Keyboard with Karabiner
New Zealand braces for severe storm Gabrielle after record floods
New top story on Hacker News: Wideboard: Render _all_ of Linux's source code in a browser tab via WebGL
New top story on Hacker News: Anatomy of a Book Cancellation
Apprentice Reece Donnelly: I would chose health over wealth any day
New top story on Hacker News: Exploring the impact of code style in identifying good programmers (2022)
New top story on Hacker News: Why do you want to touch your Mac screen so badly?
Marina Ovsyannikova: Anti-war Russian journalist recounts dramatic escape
New top story on Hacker News: Travelling Just for the People
New top story on Hacker News: Burt Bacharach has died
UK economy narrowly avoids recession last year
Trans prisoners in Scotland to be placed according to birth sex
New top story on Hacker News: Framework: 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck
Nicola Bulley: Missing mum's friends renew appeal for help, two weeks on
New top story on Hacker News: The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
New top story on Hacker News: Hack Is Wack! (2010)
The tricky decisions being faced by cash-strapped councils
New top story on Hacker News: Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
All Quiet on the Western Front: Triathlete in the running
New top story on Hacker News: Shells Are Two Things
New top story on Hacker News: What is a CDN? How do CDNs work?
Ukraine war: Borrowed time for Bakhmut as Russians close in
New top story on Hacker News: The history of “typeof null” (2013)
Sandi Toksvig: I can't let the Church of England hurt LGBT people
New top story on Hacker News: Fundamental Math for Game Developers
Footballer rescued from rubble of building
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: iWF – A new “workflow as code” execution engine
Epsom College: Investigations continue after family found dead
New top story on Hacker News: Run CLIP on iPhone to search photos
Beyoncé: Renaissance hat designer flooded with orders
New top story on Hacker News: HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires [video]
Tottenham 1-0 Man City: Pep Guardiola's side lacked creativity - Nedum Onuoha
New top story on Hacker News: Curious Undisclosed Skylake Bug
New top story on Hacker News: On Irresponsible Foomerism
David Carrick: Met Police officer raped by ex-policeman will be at his sentencing
New top story on Hacker News: Music Programming for Java and JVM Languages
New top story on Hacker News: Getting to decisions faster in A/B tests – part 1: literature review
New top story on Hacker News: What can I do for Arch Linux?
New top story on Hacker News: Design your pricing and tools so you can adapt them later
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's ex-president, dies aged 79
England 23-29 Scotland: Gregor Townsend says Scotland can improve after dramatic win
New top story on Hacker News: The Decree Design Pattern
New top story on Hacker News: Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019)
People in Chile loot beer after truck overturns
New top story on Hacker News: How the Arpanet Protocols Worked (2021)
New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft mangles VS Code protected properties to prevent UI customization
New top story on Hacker News: How Many PDP-11s? All the PDP-11s
New top story on Hacker News: Shipping Graphing Calculator
Cost of living: Zero-hour jobs and the impact on mental health
New top story on Hacker News: Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn't trust Google Cloud)
New top story on Hacker News: Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
New top story on Hacker News: Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
Eurovision 2023: John Lydon competing to represent Ireland in Liverpool
New top story on Hacker News: The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can (2015) [video]
New top story on Hacker News: Electrical stimulation can boost brain's willingness to engage in mental effort
Shell reports highest profits in 115 years
New top story on Hacker News: Why I’m making my family German (2017)
Anger and hope for change at Tyre Nichols funeral
New top story on Hacker News: Project Enable – The Diné-English Biology Dictionary
Ozzy Osbourne cancels all tour dates, saying he is 'too weak' to perform
New top story on Hacker News: Alleged serial liar George Santos had backing from FTX executives
Ambulance overturns after colliding with bus in Westminster
New top story on Hacker News: Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after frantic search