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New top story on Hacker News: Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses
New top story on Hacker News: FBI access levels to different messengers
New top story on Hacker News: DESQview/X: The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
New top story on Hacker News: The US C-Band Spectrum Saga, Explained
New top story on Hacker News: AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications
How do you say ‘Omicron’?
U.S. Removes Colombia’s FARC Rebel Group From Terrorist List
The State Department’s vaccine envoy is leaving after less than a year.
Meadows Agrees to Cooperate in Capitol Attack Investigation
Jill Biden’s White House Christmas Looks Very … Normal
New top story on Hacker News: Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb
New top story on Hacker News: Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air
Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness
The Gator Finds a Place at the Tailgate
Who is Alison Nathan, the judge in the Ghislaine Maxwell case?
Amid Variant Fears, U.K. Discovers Limits to Its Virus Strategy
England announces 13 confirmed Omicron cases, and restrictions tighten.
New top story on Hacker News: Back End Developers on Hackathons Are Not Needed
New top story on Hacker News: AWS Redshift Serverless
New top story on Hacker News: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
New top story on Hacker News: Camel beauty contests take center stage at a celebration of Bedouin culture
New top story on Hacker News: Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)
New top story on Hacker News: Digging for Utopia
Ghislaine Maxwell ‘exploited young girls’ and ‘served them up’ to Epstein, a prosecutor said.
‘No red flags’ yet: South African scientists caution against panic over the new variant.
Xiomara Castro lidera en Honduras con una promesa de cambio a pesar de sus vínculos al pasado
Biden Urges Vaccinations Amid Omicron Variant Concerns
‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm
New top story on Hacker News: The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (2014)
New top story on Hacker News: Breakthrough, PhD student creates a simple, cost-effective laser on silicon
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
New top story on Hacker News: How the Ancient Romans Went to the Bathroom
Sweden Elects Its First Female Leader — for Second Time in a Week
November Subscriber Digest
Black Friday sales were up, but reflected the challenges facing retailers.
In Scotland, Serving Halibut for a Better Planet
De Blasio reminds New Yorkers to wear masks indoors.
New top story on Hacker News: Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi
New top story on Hacker News: The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
New top story on Hacker News: Why I Have Settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 for AEAD
Hondurans seek a break from graft and despair in an election with repercussions for the United States.
New top story on Hacker News: McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge
New top story on Hacker News: The Fuel of Philosophers
‘Papi a la orden’: los candidatos prometen una nueva era, pero están atados al pasado
Los hondureños buscan un alivio de la desesperación en unas elecciones con repercusiones para Estados Unidos
Virgil Abloh, Bold Designer of Men’s Wear, Dies at 41
Elecciones presidenciales en Honduras: ¿qué está en juego hoy?
Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying.
New top story on Hacker News: BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage
New top story on Hacker News: A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K
New top story on Hacker News: Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience
New top story on Hacker News: The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?
Listen to Stephen Sondheim’s 20 Essential Songs
South Africa, whose scientists detected Omicron, is an outlier on the least vaccinated continent.
Does Omicron cause only mild illness? The jury is still out.
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Jaded about the Internet?
New top story on Hacker News: Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit
New top story on Hacker News: Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Indiedevs.net – A place for indie game developers
Switzerland will vote on virus restrictions on Sunday.
Medical students helping to fight Covid get a holiday gift.
Michigan Upsets Ohio State and Aims for a Playoff Berth
New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: GitHub is down again
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos
New top story on Hacker News: Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)
New top story on Hacker News: Reality shifting: an emergent online daydreaming culture
New top story on Hacker News: Spirituality Shaped Leonard Cohen
New top story on Hacker News: SQLite 3.37 Is Released
New top story on Hacker News: 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed
New top story on Hacker News: Everyone’s Moving to Texas. Here’s Why
North Carolina’s Furniture Hub Is Booming. What Comes Next?
Alice Waters Helps a Museum Cater to the Tastes of Art Lovers
Republicans Have a Golden Opportunity. They Will Probably Blow It.
New top story on Hacker News: Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf]
A Tale of Culinary Reconciliation, Beside the Eiffel Tower
The Mets Bolster Their Offense With Three Free Agents
‘Company’ Director and Cast Praise Stephen Sondheim
New top story on Hacker News: India tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence
New top story on Hacker News: Web Clipper: save anything on the web to anywhere
New top story on Hacker News: Code with Engineering Playbook
New top story on Hacker News: Pinning in Plain English
New top story on Hacker News: The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
New top story on Hacker News: Samsara S-1
New top story on Hacker News: Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern
New top story on Hacker News: $200 ARM based Linux Laptop is Here
Love Letter: Salmon, Loss and Motherhood
A slow start the morning after a Saints loss.
The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp
In I.O.C.’s ‘Quiet Diplomacy,’ Critics See Whitewash of China’s Actions
U.S. officials are consulting with South African scientists on the variant.
New top story on Hacker News: Two years and 300K downloads since The Program audio series' launch on HN
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Fast(er) Sorting with Sorting Networks
New top story on Hacker News: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”
New top story on Hacker News: Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language
New top story on Hacker News: Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'
New top story on Hacker News: Heat May Have Driven Cell Division
New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge
New top story on Hacker News: Impossible Foods brings total funding to $2bn with new $500m raise
New top story on Hacker News: Good News on Climate Change
New top story on Hacker News: Crypto’s hottest game is facing an economic maelstrom
New top story on Hacker News: Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code
New top story on Hacker News: Last year 90% of Black Friday deals were cheaper six months before sales event
Undeterred by Channel’s Perils, Desperate Migrants Still Plan to Cross
Your Friday Briefing
New variant displaying a ‘big jump in evolution’ detected in South Africa.
Will Germany’s ‘Debt Brake’ Stop Its Green Ambitions?
New top story on Hacker News: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
New top story on Hacker News: B.1.1.529
New top story on Hacker News: Amazon Linux 2022
Saving History With Sandbags: Climate Change Threatens the Smithsonian
A native New Yorker wrangles a balloon in the Thanksgiving parade.
Thousands gathered to watch the first full Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade since the pandemic.