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New top story on Hacker News: Amazon Dark Patterns

New top story on Hacker News: Fast-Path Loop Unrolling of Non-Counted Loops [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Hello World on z/OS

Mars, Zimbabwe, Alex Trebek: Your Tuesday Briefing

The City of My Birth in India Is Becoming a Climate Casualty. It Didn’t Have to Be.

In Cambodia, Dissenting Voters Find Ways to Say ‘None of the Above’

CPL to undergo two significant changes in playing conditions

No hiding place for England in test of credentials

New top story from Time: Paul Manafort’s First Trial Is About to Start. Here’s What You Need to Know

New top story on Hacker News: Web Typography Resources

New top story on Hacker News: The ArdaCraft project seeks to recreate Tolkien’s Middle-earth in Minecraft

New top story on Hacker News: Elsevier demands unacceptable for Germany’s academic community

New top story on Hacker News: Krita in the Windows Store: an update

New top story on Hacker News: A hash table re-hash

New top story on Hacker News: The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Translation (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: A Georgian Techno Producer Making Music from Prison

Trump Is Putting Indelible Conservative Stamp on Judiciary

A Census Question That Could Change How Power Is Divided in America

How One Agency Built a Multimillion-Dollar Business in Migrant Children

Sri Lanka's packed Test schedule: three continents in four months

Manny Machado of Los Angeles Dodgers delivers deep consolation in L.A. debut

New top story from Time: A Gay Couple Say They Were Asked to Fly Separately So a Straight Couple Could Sit Together

New top story from Time: Pussy Riot Was Immediately Detained After Their Release From Prison for World Cup Stunt

New top story from Time: Feeling ‘Taken For Granted,’ Koch-Led Donors Turn From GOP

New top story from Time: ‘Our President Is Trying to Divide Us.’ LeBron James Says Sports Should Be Used to Unite

New top story on Hacker News: TrueVault is hiring a Content Marketer

New top story on Hacker News: EUD Security Guidance: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

New top story on Hacker News: Doug McIlroy's C++ regular expression matching library

New Zealand Cricket turns down offer to tour Pakistan

Brendan Taylor: Talks with Zimbabwe Cricket have "moved forward"

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New top story on Hacker News: The problem with programming and how to fix it

New top story on Hacker News: Fond (YC W12) Is Hiring Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) in Portland

New top story on Hacker News: Out of the frying pan and into the fire

New top story on Hacker News: The Age of the Wordless Logo

New top story on Hacker News: Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor

New top story on Hacker News: Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times

New top story on Hacker News: Computer science as a lost art (2015)

New top story on Hacker News: Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast

New top story on Hacker News: Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit

New top story on Hacker News: Evolving the Firefox Brand

New top story on Hacker News: Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For

New top story on Hacker News: A treasure trove of skate culture is being saved

New top story on Hacker News: When Ramjets Ruled Science Fiction

New top story on Hacker News: BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON

New top story on Hacker News: Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars

New top story on Hacker News: How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it

New top story on Hacker News: Learning Dexterity

New top story on Hacker News: If monads are the solution, what is the problem?

New top story on Hacker News: Security Begins at the Home Router

New top story on Hacker News: Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web

New top story on Hacker News: Machine Learning for Drummers

New top story on Hacker News: How to read Plato (1995)

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Owl, a new kind of parser generator

New top story on Hacker News: How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit

New top story on Hacker News: Advice giving: A subtle pathway to power

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook Lenses

New top story on Hacker News: Why Brazilians are always late

New top story on Hacker News: SICP Distilled – An Idiosyncratic Tour of SICP in Clojure

New top story on Hacker News: The Race to a Trillion

New top story on Hacker News: Bandit Algorithms Book [pdf]

Pittsburgh Pirates trade for Texas Rangers closer Keone Kela

India tour studs New Zealand's packed home summer

Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks delayed by power outage at Chase Field

Boston Red Sox land Ian Kinsler from Los Angeles Angels

Power outage delays Milwaukee Brewers-Los Angeles Dodgers game in second inning

Washington Nationals gauging interest in market for Bryce Harper if they make him available

Atlanta Braves send trio to Cincinnati Reds for Adam Duvall

Franklin Perez, Detroit Tigers pitching prospect, being shut down for season

Carlos Martinez of St. Louis Cardinals exits vs. Colorado Rockies with right shoulder strain

Right wing Matt Read signs two-way deal with Minnesota Wild

Gareon Conley of Oakland Raiders misses third practice with hip injury

Johnny Cueto of San Francisco Giants may end up having Tommy John surgery

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Philippine Bombing Kills 10, Showing Insurgents Remain a Problem

A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He’s Not the Same

Trump Spurns Medicaid Proposal After Furious White House Debate

Ahead of Asia Trip, Business Lobby Gives Pompeo an Earful on Trade War

ISIS Says It Killed 4 Cyclists in Tajikistan

Brexit Plans Raise Fears of Food Shortages and Jammed Ports

Russia Is Not on the Docket at Manafort’s Trial, but It Will Be in the Air

‘All That Matters Is We’re Alive’: California Fire Evacuees Crowd Into Shelters

Italy Dispatch: Ceramics Aren’t Enough. Bring on the Spaceships, Italian Town Says.

Fact Check of the Day: Trump Repeats, and Inflates, Inaccurate Claims About NATO and Immigration

California, Trump, CBS: Your Monday Evening Briefing

How Trump Allies Shifted Their Defense as Evidence of Contacts With Russians Grew

Former FEMA Official Accused of Sexual Misconduct That Spanned Years

A Shortlist of Aviation’s Most Vexing Disappearances

Pope Accepts Resignation of Australian Archbishop for Covering Up Sex Abuse

The Rest of the Ivy League Comes to Harvard’s Aid in Admissions Challenge

A Toxic Tide Is Killing Florida Wildlife

Build Border Wall or Government Will Be Shut Down, Trump Says

In Florida, Not All Politics Are Local, as Trump Shapes Governor’s Race

Migrant Families Have Been Reunited. Now, a Scramble to Prevent Deportations.

Manchin Is First Democrat to Meet With Kavanaugh as Parties Intensify Feud

New V.A. Secretary Faces a Department in Turmoil

Wikipedia article of the day for July 31, 2018

New top story on Hacker News: Why isn’t someone using my software product or open source tool?

New top story on Hacker News: Mouth Sets Healing Standard

Faulty Vaccine Scandal Fuels Rare Public Outburst in China

Zimbabweans Vote Peacefully in First Election Since Mugabe’s Fall

Mick Hunt to retire after 49 years on Lord's groundstaff

Michigan RB Kareem Walker transferring to JUCO

Laos Dam Failure Exposes Cracks in a Secretive Government’s Agenda

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison to fight Jozette Cotton at PFL 6 on Aug. 16

Imran Khan’s Rivals in Pakistan Face Another Big Loss

As India Clamps Down on Migration, Millions May Lose Citizenship

Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry to play on Web.com Tour

Henry Brookes ruled out for season with back injury

California Today: California Today: The Increasing Strain on State Firefighters

New top story on Hacker News: Why Salt Was So Important Throughout History

New top story on Hacker News: A new security header: Feature Policy

Helmet contact rules part of Chicago Bears LB Roquan Smith's holdout

Tasmanian staffer challenges Cricket Australia over dismissal

Jeremy Hunt, U.K. Foreign Secretary, Calls Chinese Wife Japanese on Beijing Visit

How Alan Friedman, Italy’s Professional American, Put Paul Manafort in Jail

Woman Says She Was Fired by Cricket Australia for Abortion-Rights Tweets

New top story on Hacker News: Boeing-Backed Startup Lands JetSuite for Electric Plane's Debut

Olympic cross-country gold medalist Vibeke Skofterud dies in jet ski crash

New top story from Time: Zimbabwe Is Voting In Its First Ever Election Without Mugabe. Here’s What to Know.

Donald Trump, Pakistan, Baseball Hall of Fame: Your Monday Briefing

In Myanmar, Flood Warnings Come After the Floods

Fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Remains a Mystery, Panel Says

Drought Relief Is Coming. Australia’s Farmers Say It’s Nowhere Near Enough.

How Record Heat Wreaked Havoc on Four Continents

New top story on Hacker News: 1964 Recompiling Engine Documentation (2001)

New top story on Hacker News: Grover raises €37M Series A to offer latest tech products as a subscription

New top story from Time: Cambodia’s ‘Illegitimate’ Election Has Been Rejected by Main Opposition Party

New top story on Hacker News: A History of Individually Wrapped Cheese Slices (1979) [pdf]

internetting with amanda hess: The Hidden Language of Hands Videos

internetting with amanda hess: Welcome Our New Fembot Overlords

INTERNETTING with amanda hess: Dogs Took Over the Internet. Our Souls Are at Stake.

New top story on Hacker News: India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor

New top story on Hacker News: Classic Amiga FPGA'd and Accelerated With 68080

New top story on Hacker News: The World’s Largest Speedo Collection Almost Oozed Away

New top story on Hacker News: Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003) [pdf]

New top story from Time: Minneapolis Police Release Bodycam Video From the Fatal Blevins Shooting

New top story from Time: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe Rejects Ruling Party Ahead of Historic Elections

New top story from Time: Homeless Bay Area Web Developer Goes Viral for Handing Out Resumes at an Intersection

Wayne Parnell readies for Worcestershire bow ahead of home summer

New top story on Hacker News: Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots

New top story on Hacker News: China’s two-child policy is having unintended consequences

Montreal Dispatch: Where Churches Have Become Temples of Cheese, Fitness and Eroticism

New top story on Hacker News: Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind

Chris Lynn takes Queensland road to World Cup

Washington Nationals' Trea Turner apologizes after old offensive tweets resurface

Sam Shields of Los Angeles Rams participates in full-padded practice for first time since 2016

USWNT draws with Australia on Lindsey Horan's late goal

Alex Cora of Boston Red Sox grieving after death of Miami coach's son

New top story on Hacker News: What if the US became a monarchy?

New top story on Hacker News: In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable

New top story on Hacker News: Non-PhotoRealistic Quake

New top story on Hacker News: Redefining dilution

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?

New top story on Hacker News: Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room

New top story on Hacker News: A Taste of Linear Logic (1993) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: ‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions

New top story on Hacker News: New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their Fates Being Sealed

New top story on Hacker News: Gamifying propositional logic: QED, an interactive textbook

New top story on Hacker News: Compromised supply chain within a supply chain poses new risks

New top story on Hacker News: Java's Magic Sauce

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?

New top story on Hacker News: The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?

New top story on Hacker News: David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment

New top story on Hacker News: Diversity quotas suck. Here’s why

New top story on Hacker News: Consumer DNA tests revealing misattributed parentage

New top story on Hacker News: How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

New top story on Hacker News: Double Faults

New top story on Hacker News: A Z80 from the Ground Up (2014)

New top story on Hacker News: Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser

New top story on Hacker News: A brief history of the peace symbol

New top story on Hacker News: Hunting for fossils in the quirks of language

New top story on Hacker News: Life of an Airline Flight [video]

New top story on Hacker News: How Japan's visionaries saw the future

New top story on Hacker News: A Pamphlet against R: Computational Intelligence in Guile Scheme (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: Turbo Button

New top story on Hacker News: Iran's Wolf Wall, Second-Longest in the World, Is Still Shrouded in Mystery

New top story on Hacker News: Does Software Understand Complexity?

New top story on Hacker News: Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2

Wikipedia article of the day for July 30, 2018

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News Analysis: With Imran Khan as New Leader, Pakistan Could Reshape Its Image

A $100 Billion Train: The Future of California or a Boondoggle?

Carr Fire in California Claims Another Victim, Bringing Death Toll to 6

G.O.P. Faces Another Midterm Threat as Trump Plays the Shutdown Card

‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions Secrets

11 and Married: Malaysia Spars Over Child Brides

Future of MoviePass Is Cast in Doubt After Service Outage, Experts Say

New York Times Publisher and Trump Clash Over President’s Threats Against Journalism

Have a Cryptocurrency Company? Bermuda, Malta or Gibraltar Wants You

Polar Bear Shot and Killed After Attacking Cruise Ship Guard

Deadly Earthquake Strikes Tourist Destination in Indonesia

After Protests, Iraq’s Leader Suspends Electricity Minister Over Blackouts

Mother of Dead Woman Says Medics Told Her She Could Not Afford Ambulance

New top story on Hacker News: Mu Editor 1.0.0 got released recently

New top story on Hacker News: Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?

New top story on Hacker News: Cheap FPGA Development Boards

New top story on Hacker News: As Economics Improve, Solar Shines in Rural America

New top story on Hacker News: Dads Pass on More Than Genetics in Their Sperm

As Zimbabwe Prepares to Vote, Robert Mugabe Resurfaces With a Message

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New top story on Hacker News: Remote Spectre exploits demonstrated

New top story on Hacker News: Push to Weaken U.S. Endangered Species Act Runs into Roadblocks

New top story on Hacker News: Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

New top story on Hacker News: A $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery

Bush Claimed Power to Override a Torture Ban. What Did Brett Kavanaugh Think About That?

Paul Manafort’s Trial Starts Tuesday. Here Are the Charges and the Stakes.

Congressional Memo: Obscure Contest? Not When House Democrats Are This Divided

Ahed Tamimi, Palestinian Teenager Who Slapped Israeli Soldier, Is Released From Jail

New top story on Hacker News: London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: The $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery

New top story on Hacker News: Ghost Kanji Character Encodings: A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode

New top story on Hacker News: Journey into the World’s First Underwater Farm

New top story on Hacker News: Discontinuation of Mac Support for Autodesk Alias and VRED

Laos Dam Failure Exposes Cracks in a Secretive Government’s Agenda

Mikey Garcia ready to move up two weight classes to fight Errol Spence Jr.

New top story on Hacker News: Visualizing the Hidden ‘Logic’ of Cities

New top story on Hacker News: Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck

On Spain’s Smartest Streets, a Property Boom Made in Venezuela

New top story on Hacker News: Disinformation and ‘fake News’: Interim Report – House of Commons

New top story on Hacker News: Dinosaurs in the Wild: An Inside View

New top story on Hacker News: The Jell-O Family Curse

Cynthia Nixon Thinks You’re Underestimating Her. She Thinks You’re Wrong.

New top story on Hacker News: Vanadium redox battery

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?

New top story on Hacker News: Quantum optics without photons

New top story on Hacker News: When conductor and soloist clash, a performance can turn into a contest of wills

New top story from Time: Angela Bassett Refuses to Let Hollywood Put Her in a Box

New top story on Hacker News: Fear of Macros

New top story on Hacker News: Fullstack Academy is looking for developers who love teaching

New top story on Hacker News: The Overparked States of America

New top story on Hacker News: Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side

New top story on Hacker News: Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?

New top story on Hacker News: Plants produce ‘green vaccine’ against norovirus

New top story on Hacker News: TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program

New top story on Hacker News: Putting the “crow” in necrophilia

New top story on Hacker News: Tuple Spaces – Good Ideas Don't Always Win (2011)

New top story on Hacker News: If you put chalk under a powerful microscope

New top story on Hacker News: Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves

Bangkok Dispatch: Seeking ‘A Good Afterlife,’ and Not Just for Humans

New top story on Hacker News: QuickMockup

New top story on Hacker News: The Failure Mode of Clever (2010)

New top story on Hacker News: iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

New top story on Hacker News: Replacing Linux with a Database System

New top story on Hacker News: The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine

New top story on Hacker News: Ability to identify genuine laughter transcends culture

New top story on Hacker News: The Troubled Quest for the Superconducting Wind Turbine

New top story on Hacker News: Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world

New top story on Hacker News: How Sellers Trick Amazon to Boost Sales

New top story on Hacker News: Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed

New top story on Hacker News: WebReplay – Time Travel Debugging for Firefox

New top story on Hacker News: A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells

New top story on Hacker News: Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

New top story on Hacker News: A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts

New top story on Hacker News: My Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time (2014)

New top story on Hacker News: Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London

New top story on Hacker News: How fire scientists see through flames

New top story on Hacker News: Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange

New top story on Hacker News: Glances: cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python

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Bangladesh still have room for improvement, says Mashrafe Mortaza

Mikey Garcia defeats Robert Easter Jr. to unify lightweight titles

Masayuki Ito defeats Christopher Diaz by unanimous decision to claim vacant junior lightweight title

Colorado Rockies signing Matt Holliday to minor league deal

Wikipedia article of the day for July 29, 2018

New York Yankees trade relievers Chasen Shreve, Giovanny Gallegos to St. Louis Cardinals for Luke Voit

Boston Red Sox 3B Rafael Devers likely to DL with strained hamstring

Kathleen Baker sets world record in 100-meter backstroke at U.S. national championship

Courtney Force takes 10th No. 1 qualifier of year in Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals

Dustin Poirier gets TKO win over Eddie Alvarez

Houston Astros' Jose Altuve to 10-day DL with right knee soreness

Former pitcher, Yankees coach Tony Cloninger dies at 77

Cambodia Votes for a Leader, With the Result Predetermined by One

Deadly Quake Strikes Indonesian Island of Lombok

SURFACING: Meet New Orleans’s All-Female Biker Club

Woman and 2 of Her Great-Grandchildren Die in Carr Fire, Family Says

Texas Nursing Home Shooting That Left 5 Dead Was Likely Murder-Suicide, Police Say

Mother and 5 of Her Children Die in Motel Fire in Michigan

Newest U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Mirrors Past Plans for Retreat

Still Standing, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Step Back in the Spotlight

U.S. Diplomats Held Face-to-Face Talks With Taliban, Insurgents Say

Turkish School Leader Abducted, and Released, in Mongolia

Former Catalan Leader Returns to Belgium, Vowing to Defend Separatist Cause

Civil War Portrayals’ Glaring Omission

Christopher Bell races to 3rd straight NASCAR Xfinity victory

After Pakistan’s Heated Election, Key Parties Lend Support to Imran Khan

An 11-Year-Old Girl Is Gang Raped in India and Blamed for It, Too

New top story on Hacker News: 10 Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them

New top story on Hacker News: Mailfence: Secure and private email service

New top story on Hacker News: Standing by Their Convictions

Stephen Ames shares lead with Miguel Angel Jimenez at Senior British Open

Pope Accepts Resignation of Cardinal McCarrick Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal

New top story on Hacker News: Firefox Is Testing "Time Travel Debugging"

New top story on Hacker News: Ryū: Fastest Float-To-String Conversion

New top story on Hacker News: #ifdef considered harmful (1992) [pdf]

Reece Topley to undergo back surgery

New top story on Hacker News: Is the scientific paper fraudulent? (1964) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: TagTime: Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets (2011)

Student Midwives Flee to Safe Room as Extremists Attack Afghan School

From a Space Station in Argentina, China Expands Its Reach in Latin America

The Decline of the Civil War Re-enactor

In Georgia Governor’s Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State

Angelo Mathews on Danushka Gunathilaka - 'We will not tolerate any indiscipline'

New top story on Hacker News: OpenStreetMap vector tiles made easy

New top story on Hacker News: An ingenious vintage German cycle map. (2014)

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New top story on Hacker News: Energy Production and Changing Energy Sources

Social-media fracas brings Sabbir Rahman under BCB scanner

New top story on Hacker News: There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought

New top story on Hacker News: Indian warrior king's rocket cache found in abandoned well

New top story on Hacker News: 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey [pdf]

British Lawmakers Accuse Facebook of Failing to Aid Inquiry Into ‘Fake News’

Go Home, South Korea Tells Workers, as Stress Takes Its Toll

New top story from Time: What We Know About the Controversial 2016 Trump Tower Meeting With Russian Officials

New top story from Time: Your Guide to Seeing Spectacular Views of Mars This Weekend

New top story from Time: TIME Earns Two Emmy Award Nominations 

New top story from Time: President Trump Has Long Been Obsessed With Secret Tapes

New top story on Hacker News: Earhart’s last calls: Research suggests dozens heard radioed cries for help

New top story on Hacker News: Many Chinese companies ‘will go bankrupt’, if US delivers on tariff threats

‘What Does a Trucker Look Like?’ It’s Changing, Amid a Big Shortage

New top story on Hacker News: The Ordinary License Plate’s Days May Be Numbered

New top story on Hacker News: The death of Don Draper

New top story on Hacker News: Amplemarket (YC W14) Seeks Software Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal

New top story on Hacker News: 'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong

New top story on Hacker News: California High Court Rules Starbucks Must Pay for Off-The-Clock Work

New top story on Hacker News: Keep a Changelog

New top story on Hacker News: Evolution of Application Data Caching: From RAM to SSD

New top story on Hacker News: DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs

New top story on Hacker News: Intel delays 10nm Cannon Lake processors, again, until late 2019

New top story on Hacker News: The hidden costs in a “no-cost” tablet contract

New top story on Hacker News: Restaurant noise levels are climbing

New top story on Hacker News: The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

New top story on Hacker News: Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud the way your application experiences it

New top story on Hacker News: Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It

New top story on Hacker News: Mea culpa: there is a crisis in the humanities

New top story on Hacker News: Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York

New top story on Hacker News: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

New top story on Hacker News: Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”

New top story on Hacker News: Thoughts On Machine Learning Accuracy

New top story on Hacker News: How did Google get so big?

New top story on Hacker News: The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the radioisotope power system works

New top story on Hacker News: Email encryption is here – use STARTTLS everywhere

New top story on Hacker News: Oblix: an efficient oblivious search index

New top story on Hacker News: The death of a TLD

New top story on Hacker News: Mellite: an environment for creating experimental computer-based music

New top story on Hacker News: What OpenStreetMap can be

New top story on Hacker News: Put Your Face in It: How Gaming Helped Me Understand My Dog

New top story on Hacker News: Kathleen Howell is developing potential orbits around a Lagrange point

New top story on Hacker News: Githooks: auto-install client-side hooks inside the repos

New top story on Hacker News: Does Kit Kat’s Shape Deserve a Trademark? E.U. Adds a Hurdle

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Wikipedia article of the day for July 28, 2018

Courtney Force leads NHRA Funny Car qualifying at Sonoma

Milwaukee Brewers acquire Mike Moustakas from Kansas City Royals

Houston Astros acquire reliever Ryan Pressly from Minnesota Twins

Caeleb Dressel wins 100-meter butterfly at U.S. swim nationals

Floyd Mayweather aims at franchising boxing gyms across U.S., world

Washington Capitals re-sign Tom Wilson to $31.02 million, 6-year deal

Five Are Dead in Killings Tied to Texas Nursing Home Shooting

Five Lawmakers Call on U.S. to Investigate Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case

The Saturday Profile: Theater Director Returns to China With ‘Liberating and Cool’ Vision

Act of Defiance Casts Harsh Light on Europe’s Deportations of Asylum Seekers

Woman Gets Five-Year Prison Sentence on Charges of Abducting Her Children

Arson Is Suspected in Deadly Fires in Greece, Government Says

Putin Invites Trump to Moscow for Second Meeting After Washington Postponed Plans

Trump Says He’ll Stump for Vulnerable Republicans ‘Six or Seven Days a Week’

The Biggest Stories in American Politics This Week

Pruitt’s Successor Wants Rollbacks, Too. And He Wants Them to Stick.

As Affordable Housing Crisis Grows, HUD Sits on the Sidelines

Bill Loud, the Father of TV’s ‘An American Family,’ Is Dead at 97

‘I Think All Those People Are Dead’: Laos Dam Survivors Seek Word of Neighbors

Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid

Ontario’s Premier Flexes His Muscle by Shrinking Toronto’s Government

‘Why Did You Leave Me?’ The Migrant Children Left Behind as Parents Are Deported

Prime Minister’s Eating Habits Scandalize Australians: It’s Piegate

At Prayer Breakfast, Guests Seek Access to a Different Higher Power

Missed Connection: Donald Trump Jr. and Robert Mueller Cross Paths at Washington Airport

New Hampshire, 94 Percent White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State?

California Today: California Today: With ‘Blindspotting,’ Oakland’s Film Scene Takes ...

G.D.P., California Wildfires, Migrants: Your Friday Evening Briefing

Housing Finance Director, Mel Watt, Investigated for Sexual Harassment

What Is a Genetically Modified Crop? A European Ruling Sows Confusion

‘Furnace Friday:’ Ill-Equipped for Heat, Britain Has a Meltdown

Maryon P. Allen, Made a Senator by Husband’s Death, Dies at 92

Insecurity Shadows Mali’s President. It May Also Help Him Get Re-Elected.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Kontext – Learn new words by watching movies in a foreign language

New top story on Hacker News: The secret in my blood

Bits: The Week in Tech: Inequality Rising

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter shares drop 12 percent after reporting declining monthly active users

New top story on Hacker News: Understanding JavaScript Objects

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New top story on Hacker News: The Muse (YC W12) is hiring an Engineering Manager – come join us

New top story on Hacker News: Termgraph: Python CLI Tool to Draw Graphs

New top story on Hacker News: Learn how to write an emulator

New top story on Hacker News: The quest to save Stephen Hawking's voice

New top story on Hacker News: Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries

Imran Khan, Former Cricket Star, Pulls Into Lead in Pakistan’s Vote Count

New top story on Hacker News: ActivityPub could be the future – Blog of Riley Taylor

New top story on Hacker News: Launch loop

New top story on Hacker News: Radio Side-Channels in Mixed-Signal Chips (“Screaming Channels”)

New top story from Time: 7 Questions With Blizzard’s CEO as the Overwatch League Finals Get Underway

New top story on Hacker News: Death of a startup founder

New top story on Hacker News: Membrane (Elixir) Framework – reliable and scalable multimedia streaming

New top story on Hacker News: This is your Captain speaking, I’m turning on the fasten seat belt sign

The Last Days of a Hong Kong Street for Singing Your Heart Out

Robert Mueller, North Korea, ‘Mission: Impossible’: Your Friday Briefing