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Huracanes y cambio climático: esto es lo que sabemos
Reflections on Our Summer Reading Contest and Our Final Week of Winners
College Football Changes: More 2-Point Tries and a Crackdown on Stadium Gamesmanship
This Is the Moment the Anti-Vaccine Movement Has Been Waiting for
Bangladeshi manufacturers criticize the expansion of a deal to protect workers.
New top story on Hacker News: Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
New top story on Hacker News: Startup Bootstrapping Plan
There’s a Better Way to Stop Ransomware Attacks
Revocatoria a Gavin Newsom: una guía para los votantes
Governors DeSantis and Abbott, ‘Undermining Public Health’
Transcript: Ezra Klein Answers Listener Questions
The U.S. faces a series of dilemmas in dealing with a Taliban government.
James Whiteside Thinks ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Would Make a Great Ballet
New Jersey Woman Charged With Selling Fake Vaccine Cards on Instagram
Players Apologize as Mets Try to Move On From Thumbs Down
The New U.S. Challenge in Afghanistan: Coping With Taliban Rule
New top story on Hacker News: 79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: BokehCamera – Blur webcam background photorealistically using RealSense
New top story on Hacker News: Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies
New top story on Hacker News: A Pacific Gold Rush
White House Weighs Clemency to Keep Some Drug Offenders Confined at Home
Your Tuesday Briefing
The world is still short of everything. Get used to it.
A university in Bangladesh evacuates almost 150 young women from Kabul.
New York’s Brief Hot Restaurant Summer: Bread Binges and Tabletop Coke
E. U. Proposes New Travel Restrictions on Unvaccinated U.S. Visitors
La variante delta se infiltró en un aula de primaria. Así sucedió
What Voters in a California Swing District Say About Afghanistan
What’s Better, a Prize or a Patent?
When the ‘Silent Majority’ Isn’t White
New data confirm Pfizer and Moderna vaccines bring a small risk of heart problems, especially for boys and younger men.
New top story on Hacker News: Freeing Your Goats
New top story on Hacker News: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Creating a VPN Gateway with a Unikernel Running WireGuard
New top story on Hacker News: Fibonacci Sphere
Human Most of All: In Moscow, a Theater Stages ‘Gorbachev’
A new plant was supposed to help keep New Orleans’s lights on after storms. It didn’t.
New top story on Hacker News: Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007)
New top story on Hacker News: Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)
New top story on Hacker News: The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
New top story on Hacker News: How Bad Photography Has Changed Our Definition of Good Pictures
New top story on Hacker News: How you play Spades is how you play life
New top story on Hacker News: Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
New top story on Hacker News: Code-First vs. Product-First
More than 300,000 customers are without power. It could be weeks before they have it back.
After Katrina, New Orleans became a fortress. Ida is testing its strength.
New top story on Hacker News: Patera – Dynamic Documents
New top story on Hacker News: Spherical Panoramas
New top story on Hacker News: The Orbit of Planet Nine
New top story on Hacker News: Backblaze: “Why does the private key still need to be sent to your datacenter?”
New top story on Hacker News: To China's chagrin, Japan-Taiwan talks could pave the way for closer ties
Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4
On the road to Kabul, hundreds of families can’t go home and wait for help.
Ron DeSantis, How Many Covid Deaths Are Enough?
As the virus surges in Oregon, counties are asking for mobile morgues to house the dead.
Ida Strengthened Quickly Into a Monster. Here’s How.
Winds whip through New Orleans’s deserted streets as the storm bears down.
The E.U. is set to reimpose travel restrictions on U.S. visitors.
Meteorologists were amazed by how fast Ida strengthened.
New top story on Hacker News: Esperanto Champions the Efficiency of Its 1,092-Core RISC-V Chip
New top story on Hacker News: Train Wheels Are Cones
New top story on Hacker News: 8Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (2017)
New top story on Hacker News: 5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks
New top story on Hacker News: No copyrights on any content (NSFW)
New top story on Hacker News: Study: Challenges students face when learning SQL
New top story on Hacker News: A newfound biomolecule, consisting of RNA modified by sugars
New top story on Hacker News: Life After White Collar Crime
New top story on Hacker News: Inductive Reasoning Aptitude
New top story on Hacker News: This Is Water (2005)
New top story on Hacker News: Getting started with large format film photography
Among the Troops WhoDied, Two Women on the Frontline
Breakthrough Covid cases: Uncommon and often mild, but not always.
Florida has a worse surge than states with similar vaccination rates. What went wrong?
New top story on Hacker News: Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)
New top story on Hacker News: Do You Need a Blockchain?
New top story on Hacker News: LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves
New top story on Hacker News: Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [livestream]
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Simple tool for creating commandline bar charts
New top story on Hacker News: Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial
New top story on Hacker News: A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (2019)
Repression Without Borders
Two Paralympians who were evacuated from Afghanistan arrive in Tokyo.
How will Ida compare with Katrina?
Hurricane Nora forms in the Pacific as it moves toward Mexico’s western coast.
Outside Kabul’s airport, the Taliban patrols as the window for Afghans to flee closes.
‘Time is not on our side,’ New Orleans mayor warns.
Reprisal strike killed two ISIS militants and wounded another.
New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) – Science Games and live game streaming for kids
New top story on Hacker News: “He who pays the piper calls the tune”: Funders suppress health trial findings
Intelligence Review Yields No Firm Conclusion on Origins of Virus
What to Do This Weekend
A Menu to Savor the Final Moments of Summer