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Saudis End Purge That Began With Hundreds Locked in the Ritz-Carlton

3 European Nations Create Firm to Trade With Iran, but Will Anyone Use It?

New top story on Hacker News: A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

New top story from Time: A Sinkhole in Florida Revealed a Tunnel That Someone Was Digging to a Nearby Bank

Trump Hails ‘Good Intent and Spirit’ of Trade Talks With China

Polar Vortex Live Updates: Bitter Cold Spreads From Midwest to East Coast

Indian Leaders Are Accused of Covering Up 45-Year High in Unemployment

California Today: California Today: What Happens Next for PG&E Executives?

Cold Weather Tips From Chicagoans Who Really Know What They’re Talking About

Sanders Unveils Estate Tax Plan, Joining Democrats Who Want to Tax the Rich

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

New top story on Hacker News: Simulating blobs of fluid

New top story on Hacker News: Table Saw Kickback on Camera

New top story on Hacker News: Did wine cause a full-scale revolution in Armenia?

New top story on Hacker News: Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

New top story on Hacker News: A proposed API for full-memory encryption

New top story on Hacker News: A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities

New top story from Time: Why Tom Brady’s Super Bowl Experience Doesn’t Guarantee a Patriots Victory

Weather, Facebook, Venezuela: Your Thursday Briefing

New Zealand Vowed 100,000 New Homes to Ease Crunch. So Far It Has Built 47.

Saudis Executed Maid From Philippines Despite Protests, Officials Say

Can Big Global Sports Come Around to Human Rights Advocacy?

Feature: How Iran’s Greatest Director Makes Art of Moral Ambiguity

New top story on Hacker News: Bookwheel, the 16th Century Forerunner to the EBook Reader

New top story on Hacker News: Germany, France, Britain to Launch Mechanism for Trade with Iran

New top story on Hacker News: Germs and ancient migrations help explain our world of haves and have nots

New top story on Hacker News: Racket v7.2

He Says ‘Wall,’ They Say ‘Border Security’: A Glossary of the Border Debate

A Secret Tunnel Leading Toward a Florida Bank Puzzles the F.B.I.

At War: The Secret History of a Vietnam War Airstrike Gone Terribly Wrong

Afghan Government Control Over Country Falters, U.S. Report Says

Theresa May Wants the E.U. to Renegotiate Brexit. Will It?

Could You Last 11 Days Without the Internet? Tonga Finds Out the Hard Way

New top story on Hacker News: How I lost my data trying to back it up

New top story on Hacker News: A KGB Agent Stole a Sidewinder Missile and Shipped It by Mail to Moscow (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss

New top story on Hacker News: Bloom's Taxonomy

New top story on Hacker News: How to prepare a Design Thinking workshop for 80 people

New top story on Hacker News: Flexport Engineering Expands to Chicago

New top story from Time: ‘There Is Officially No More War.’ Mexico’s President Declares an End to the Drug War Amid Skepticism

New top story from Time: Democrats’ New Plan for Poor Parents: Give Them $300 a Month

New top story from Time: Companies Selling Fake Likes and Followers on Social Media Settle With New York State

New top story on Hacker News: A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves

New top story on Hacker News: Data Structures for coding interviews

New top story on Hacker News: Like a son but cheaper: harried South Koreans pamper pets instead of having kids

New top story on Hacker News: GiveCampus (YC S15) Hiring Experienced Rails Engineers in DC

New top story on Hacker News: Lidar Is a Crutch

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike

When Brexit Happens, Will Hunger Pangs Follow?

Opioid Lawsuits Are Headed to Trial. Here's Why the Stakes Are Getting Uglier.

This Is Your Brain Off Facebook

China, Venezuela, Climate Change: Your Thursday Briefing

On Politics: Trump Calls His Own Intelligence Officials ‘Naïve’

Trump Says He’ll Leave Decision of Whether to Release Special Counsel’s Report to Justice Dept.

New top story on Hacker News: Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail

New top story on Hacker News: Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

New top story on Hacker News: This is Your Brain Off Facebook - study offers glimpse of unplugging

New top story on Hacker News: Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd

New top story on Hacker News: What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?

New top story on Hacker News: Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

New top story on Hacker News: Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

New top story on Hacker News: Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed

New top story on Hacker News: Statistics Done Wrong

New top story on Hacker News: Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

New top story on Hacker News: Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door

New top story on Hacker News: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin

New top story on Hacker News: Scripting in Common Lisp

New top story on Hacker News: Steganographic Packets

New top story on Hacker News: 8bit Workshop

New top story on Hacker News: Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing

New top story on Hacker News: The first synthetic element

New top story on Hacker News: Superior Testing: Stop Stopping

New top story on Hacker News: Gödel's Theorem

New top story on Hacker News: Coloured Petri Nets: Modelling and Validation of Concurrent Systems (2009) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: No Great Technological Stagnation (2016)

Wikipedia article of the day for January 31, 2019

Parliament Becomes Britain’s New Brexit Casualty

To Slow U.S. Exit, Afghan Leader Offers Trump a Cost Reduction

The Messier Brexit Gets, the Better Europe Looks

Washington Memo: An Angry Trump Pushes Back Against His Own ‘Naive’ Intelligence Officials

Jury Awards Rand Paul Over $580,000 in Damages From Attack

Polar Vortex, Federal Reserve, Facebook: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

Jussie Smollett Attack Investigation Focuses on 2 People Seen on Video

Undocumented Immigrant Who Worked at a Trump Golf Club Will Attend State of the Union

Foxconn Reconsidering Plans for a Wisconsin Factory Heralded by Trump

St. Louis Prosecutor Accuses Police of Obstructing Inquiry Into Killing of Officer

6 Men Convicted in 1982 Murder of Chilean Leader

For the Kremlin, Venezuela Is Not the Next Syria

A Merciless Cold Lingers in the Midwest

Democrats’ Opening Offer: More Customs Officers and Technology, but No Wall

Morton Sobell, Last Defendant in Rosenberg Spy Case, Is Dead at 101

Maduro Turns to Special Police Force to Crush Dissent

What Is the Irish Backstop, and Why Is It Holding Up Brexit?

Jussie Smollett, Star of ‘Empire,’ Attacked in What Police Call a Possible Hate Crime

New top story on Hacker News: When Your Memory Allocator Hides Security Bugs

Trump Stands Firm Against Intelligence Chiefs’ Warnings

New top story on Hacker News: Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?

New top story on Hacker News: iMessage vulnerability allowed spies in UAE to harvest iPhone content

New top story on Hacker News: Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE

New top story on Hacker News: Ending our Medium integration

New top story on Hacker News: 5,000 Pages of Verdi’s Drafts, Long Hidden, Will Be Made Public

New top story on Hacker News: Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript Works with Amiga Mod and FastTracker XM Files

New top story on Hacker News: Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Tor's Open Research Topics (2018)

Bangkok Dispatch: Bangkok, Draped in Flowers but Smothered by Pollution, Suffers

South Korean Leader’s Ally Convicted of Illegal Pre-Election Influence Campaign

At Least 28 Dead After Boats Capsize Off Djibouti, U.N. Says

New top story on Hacker News: Faire (YC W17) Is Looking for a Biz Ops Associate

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft Dev Implores Mozilla to Surrender and Bring Firefox to Chromium

New top story on Hacker News: Exclusive Design

New top story on Hacker News: Royalty Free No Copyright Music for All Your Projects

New top story on Hacker News: Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's Core Memory

New top story on Hacker News: Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)

Your Wednesday Briefing

‘I’m Going to Die Here,’ She Told the Guards. They Didn’t Listen.

Fed Expected to Hold Rates Steady and Emphasize Patience

Emma Coronel Aispuro Talks About Her Life as El Chapo’s Wife

Is There Room in 2020 for a Centrist Democrat? Maybe One or Two.

Freezing Cold Settles In Over the Midwest, Bringing Life to a Standstill

There’s No Federal Ban on Animal Cruelty. Lawmakers Want to Change That.

Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela Says He’s Open to Talks With Opposition

You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It.

New top story on Hacker News: Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released

New top story on Hacker News: A new genetic technology that can quickly change entire populations gets broader

New top story from Time: Betrayals, a $100 Million Bribery and a Netflix Star: These Are the 7 Biggest Bombshells From El Chapo’s Trial

On Politics: Intelligence Chiefs Rebut Trump on Iran and North Korea

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

New top story on Hacker News: Pwn the LIFX Mini white

New top story on Hacker News: The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance

New top story on Hacker News: The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: Which American accent do you have? (2007)

Wikipedia article of the day for January 30, 2019

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Chris Christie Says Jared Kushner’s Father Committed a ‘Loathsome’ Crime

News Analysis: A Growing Chorus of Republican Critics for Trump’s Foreign Policy

Opposition Leader, and Oil, Become Focus of Venezuela-U.S. Struggle

Cold Weather Tips from Chicagoans Who Really Know What They’re Talking About

Apple Was Slow to Act on FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying on iPhones

As Entrepreneurs, Indigenous Australians Find a Growing Empowerment

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Decides Against Presidential Bid

Jussie Smollett, Star of ‘Empire,’ Attacked in What Police Call a Possible Hate Crime

Brexit, Apple, Venezuela: Your Wednesday Briefing

Trump Organization to Use E-Verify to Prevent Hiring Undocumented Immigrants

How Bitcoin Could Help Iran Undermine U.S. Sanctions

Theresa May Wants the E.U. to Renegotiate Brexit. Will It?

Grenade Attack on Philippine Mosque Kills Two

The Polar Vortex: Hard Facts About Cold Weather

Huawei and China, Facing U.S. Charges, Have Few Ways to Retaliate

White House Memo: The Many Ways to Leave the White House

Kamala Harris and Michael Bloomberg Clash on Medicare for All

On North Korea and Iran, Intelligence Chiefs Contradict Trump

Baltimore Will Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Possession Cases

U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes

Texas Official’s Claim About Citizenship of 95,000 Is Called Into Doubt

Frostbite and Hypothermia: Tips to Stay Safe in Extreme Cold Weather

‘Along the Main Road You See the Graves’: U.N. Says Hundreds Killed in Congo

In Critical Brexit Vote, Theresa May Survives

Houston Narcotics Officers Were Greeted by a Charging Dog and a Barrage of Bullets

On Washington: After a Shutdown Test of Wills Comes a Test of Governance

Judiciary Hearing on Democrats’ Election Bill Turns Into Partisan Brawl

‘I’m Cold and I’m Afraid’: Across Midwest, Homeless Await Deep Freeze

New top story on Hacker News: GoLorry (YC W16) Is Hiring a Full-Time Software Engineer in Hyderabad, India

New top story on Hacker News: Israeli scientists claim to have found cure for cancer

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Serve Static GitHub Pages Locally

New top story on Hacker News: Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++

New top story on Hacker News: How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)

New top story on Hacker News: Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?

New top story on Hacker News: Reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex

New top story on Hacker News: Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

New top story on Hacker News: San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

New top story on Hacker News: The Kubernetes Kustomize KEP Kerfuffle

New top story on Hacker News: The heroes of the Thai cave rescue

New top story on Hacker News: Office 365 global authentication outage

New top story on Hacker News: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

New top story on Hacker News: Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week

New top story on Hacker News: PG&E files for bankruptcy

New top story on Hacker News: Advice to new programmers

New top story on Hacker News: Writing Apps in Go and Swift

New top story on Hacker News: Maze Design (2005)

New top story on Hacker News: AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine

New top story on Hacker News: A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum

New top story on Hacker News: My journey applying AI to horse racing

New top story on Hacker News: Building a “Simple” Distributed System – Formal Verification

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Deep Learning GUI to Create, Train and Visualize Models in a Browser

New top story on Hacker News: Nasa Used Art to Shape Our Vision of the Future

New top story on Hacker News: Down the Rabbit Hole – Part I: A Journey into the UEFI Land

New top story on Hacker News: Apache Flink

New top story on Hacker News: Advanced Tor Browser Fingerprinting (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Neural Network Perspective (1993) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong. Jason Hickel

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Are there any “online” lawyer services?

New top story on Hacker News: Huawei's attempts to copycat a T-Mobile robot read like a comical spy movie

New top story on Hacker News: Librem 5 Hardware Update

New top story on Hacker News: I abused 2FA to maintain persistence after a password change

New top story on Hacker News: Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: Why Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck

New top story on Hacker News: World's oldest periodic table chart found in St Andrews

Huawei and China Have Limited Ways to Answer U.S. Charges

New top story from Time: British Parliament to Vote on Brexit Plans But E.U. Stands Firm

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a list of open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

New top story on Hacker News: Gmail Services Global Outage

New top story on Hacker News: Let’s Create a Speech Synthesizer in C++17 [video]

Our Dreams of Peace: Envisioning an End to War in Afghanistan

Pakistani Woman Accused of Blasphemy Will Remain Free, Supreme Court Rules

New top story on Hacker News: Ledger Live: A mobile companion app for Ledger hardware wallets

New top story on Hacker News: The Prado Museum, Spain’s Cultural Jewel, Turns 200

New top story on Hacker News: Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports?

New top story on Hacker News: Loop, a new zero-waste platform that may change how we shop forever

New top story from Time: The U.S. Has Slipped out of the Top 20 Countries in a Worldwide Corruption Index

Your Tuesday Briefing

On Politics: A Pro-Israel Bill Also Aims to Divide Democrats

PG&E Files for Bankruptcy Protection in Face of Large Wildfire Liabilities

Roger Stone to Appear in Court on Charges in Mueller Investigation

The Trek Across the Border Veers Into More and More Remote Terrain

Joshua Trees Destroyed in National Park During Shutdown May Take Centuries to Regrow

Can Kamala Harris Repeat Obama’s Success With Black Voters? It’s Complicated

Intelligence Chiefs Set to Outline Threat of Chinese Cyberspying

How This Trump Policy Is Triggering Chaos at the Border

‘World’s Loneliest Duck’ Dies on Tiny Pacific Island That Loved Him

Lens: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter: Honoring Black Mothers Who Lost ...

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

New top story on Hacker News: Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month

New top story on Hacker News: Lumi is hiring a VP of Engineering to build AWS for manufacturing

New top story from Time: A Top U.N. Judge Has Resigned Over ‘Shocking’ Interference From the White House and Turkey

New top story from Time: A Major FaceTime Bug Might Let Callers Hear Your Conversation Before You Pick Up

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?

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News Analysis: With U.S. and Taliban in Talks, Afghans Fear They Could End Up Trampled

Stephon Clark’s Family Sues Sacramento and 2 Police Officers Over Fatal Shooting

Brexit, Afghanistan, Robert Mueller: Your Tuesday Briefing

FaceTime Bug Lets iPhone Users Eavesdrop, in a Stumble for Apple

U.S. Charges Huawei and Top Executive With Breaking American Laws

The U.A.E. Handed Out Gender Balance Awards: All Went to Men

Use of Force in France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Fuels Anger

U.N. Investigator Arrives in Turkey to Start Jamal Khashoggi Inquiry

Prominent Democrats Form Pro-Israel Group to Counter Skepticism on the Left

4 Houston Police Officers Are Shot in Gun Battle That Kills 2 Suspects

Polar Vortex to Grip Midwest With Most Extreme Cold in a Generation

Singapore Says Records for 14,200 H.I.V. Patients, Held by an American, Were Leaked

U.S. Targets Venezuela With Tough Oil Sanctions During Crisis of Power

ISIS Bombing of Cathedral in Philippines Shows Group’s Reach Into Asia

News Analysis: Taliban Talks Raise Question of What U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Could Mean

Mueller Investigation Nearing Its End, Acting Attorney General Says

Child Abuse Is ‘a Human Problem,’ Pope Says, Tamping Down Summit Expectations

Tom Brokaw Apologizes for Comments About Hispanics and Assimilation

Senate Advances Pro-Israel Bill as G.O.P. Searches for Democratic Divisions

Charter Schools Suffer Setback in Aftermath of Los Angeles Strike

The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera

Brexit, Singapore, Nissan: Your Tuesday Briefing

Government Shutdown Cost U.S. Economy $11 Billion, C.B.O. Says

Trump to Deliver State of the Union Next Week

On Politics With Lisa Lerer: Is Howard Schultz a Candidate Without a Constituency?

Wikipedia article of the day for January 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Singapore HIV registry leaked online, 14,000 people affected

New top story on Hacker News: Caper (YC W16) Is Hiring a Back-End Engineer

New top story on Hacker News: A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture

New top story on Hacker News: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

New top story on Hacker News: Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops

New top story on Hacker News: Systemd as tragedy

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Apprise – A lightweight all-in-one notification solution

New top story on Hacker News: The Tao of Programming (1987)

New top story on Hacker News: The PewDiePie Hackers: Could hacking printers ruin your life? [video]

New top story on Hacker News: The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior

New top story on Hacker News: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

New top story on Hacker News: From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?

New top story on Hacker News: TSMC Nanke 14 Factory Production Interruption Could Affect NVIDIA and Others

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name

New top story on Hacker News: Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks

New top story on Hacker News: Digitized minutes of Royal Society meetings taken between 1686 and 1711

New top story on Hacker News: CS in VN (2013)

New top story on Hacker News: ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the browser

New top story on Hacker News: Student cracks theologian's baffling religious code

New top story on Hacker News: The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (1997)

New top story on Hacker News: The Day I Fell in Love with Fuzzing

New top story on Hacker News: A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet

New top story on Hacker News: The Tunnel of Samos (2004)

New top story on Hacker News: Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient

New top story on Hacker News: Florian Obser on unwind(8)

New top story on Hacker News: RIOT: Operating System for the Internet of Things

New top story on Hacker News: The CADR Microprocessor

New top story on Hacker News: Can a California town move back from the sea?

New top story on Hacker News: Apple supplier shifts away from China

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Draftss – Design and Code on Monthly Subscription

New top story on Hacker News: Findjars: a gradle plugin to debug classpath issues

As I.P.O. Approaches, Lyft’s Chief Is Nudged Into the Spotlight

New top story on Hacker News: Parmigiano-Reggiano: Italy's 'practically perfect' food

California Today: Kamala Harris Begins Wooing Voters Nationwide

New top story on Hacker News: A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’

New top story on Hacker News: Dropbox snares HelloSign for $230M

New top story on Hacker News: The “.ro” Gold Rush

New top story on Hacker News: The Fleecing of Millennials

New top story on Hacker News: A JavaScript(canvas) spreadsheet for web

New top story on Hacker News: A Child’s Puzzle Helped Uncover How Magnets Really Work

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?

New top story on Hacker News: Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists bring new insight into how animals see

Pilot in Nepal Plane Crash Had an ‘Emotional Breakdown,’ Officials Say

The Brexit Amendment Process That Could Reshape Britain’s Future

New top story on Hacker News: The personal toll of whistle-blowing

New top story on Hacker News: A novel approach to onboarding

New top story on Hacker News: Future of digital journalism as BuzzFeed and HuffPost lay off 1,000

New top story on Hacker News: Iran to Launch State-Backed Cryptocurrency to Counter SWIFT and US Regulations

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech?

New top story from Time: Afghanistan’s President Assures Citizens Amid Report of U.S.-Taliban Peace Progress

U.S. and Taliban Agree in Principle to Peace Framework, Envoy Says

Tornado Strikes Havana, Killing at Least 3

New top story on Hacker News: Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)

New top story on Hacker News: The subscription-pocalypse

New top story on Hacker News: Luggage found stuffed with 5,000 leeches

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Do you enjoy working in a coworking space?

New top story on Hacker News: New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+

New top story from Time: Activists Are Calling on Mariah Carey to Cancel Her Concert in Saudi Arabia

Your Monday Briefing

Chinese Rights Lawyer Swept Up in Xi’s Crackdown Gets More Than 4 Years in Prison

Abortion, Newly Legal in Ireland, Faces Old Roadblocks

A Thai Singer Wore a Swastika. Was It Prejudice or Ignorance?

New top story on Hacker News: Google accused of ongoing “massive leakage of highly intimate data”

New top story on Hacker News: Jiggle syphon

New top story from Time: The Trump Administration Has Warned Europe Not to Try Evading Sanctions on Iran

New top story from Time: A Banksy Mural Commemorating Victims of a Paris Terror Attack Was Stolen

New top story from Time: Islamic State Claims Responsibility for the Philippines Church Bombings That Killed at Least 20 People

New top story from Time: Black Panther Takes Home the Top Honor From the SAG Awards

New top story from Time: The Death of a Singaporean Actor Has Put a Spotlight on the Risks of Conscription

New top story from Time: Pope Francis Calls for a ‘Peaceful Solution’ to Venezuela’s Crisis, but Doesn’t Pick Sides

New top story on Hacker News: How to Setup Your Own PaaS with Dokku and Node and React and Mongodb and Nginx

New top story on Hacker News: Outperforming everything with anything: Python? Sure, why not?

New top story on Hacker News: Flower Power: Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

Roger Stone, Venezuela, Huawei: Your Monday Briefing

All Red or All Blue, State Legislatures Run to Partisan Sides

On Politics: Did the Shutdown Hurt Trump’s 2020 Chances?

In Paris, ‘Red Scarves’ March to Counter Yellow Vest Protests

Trump’s Statistics About Undocumented Immigrants Are Questioned by Experts

Elite Law Firm’s All-White Partner Class Stirs Debate on Diversity

Afghan Women Fear Peace With Taliban May Mean War on Them

Your 2019 Tax Refund Might Be Higher, Lower or Later Than Usual

Canada Dispatch: ‘The Nation Has Stood Up’: Indigenous Clans in Canada Battle Pipeline Project

Trump Thought Firing Flynn Would End ‘Russia Thing,’ Chris Christie Writes in Book

New Alarms in Brazil as a Second Mining Dam Threatens to Collapse

Howard Schultz, Former Starbucks Chief, Is Preparing for an Independent 2020 Run

To Rise Above the Democratic Pack, Elizabeth Warren Tries ‘Nerding Out’

Kamala Harris Kicks Off 2020 Campaign With Oakland Rally

Treasury Dept. Lifts Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Companies

Duke University Apologizes Over Professor’s Email Asking Chinese Students to Speak English

Too Ugly to Be Saved? Singapore Weighs Fate of Its Brutalist Buildings

As Government Reopens, the New Congress Tries to Begin Again

Hundreds Still Missing After Dam Collapse in Brazil