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New top story on Hacker News: US to ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday

New top story on Hacker News: Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python

New top story on Hacker News: Flexport Is Hiring in North America, Europe, and Asia

New top story on Hacker News: ECJ rules US Cloud services fundamentally incompatible with EU Privacy laws

New top story on Hacker News: Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI API

Wikipedia article of the day for August 1, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Jared Kushner’s Testing Plan “Went Poof into Thin Air”

New top story on Hacker News: WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

New top story on Hacker News: Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics

New top story on Hacker News: Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first

New top story on Hacker News: Cosmic tango between the small and the large

New top story on Hacker News: Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

New top story on Hacker News: Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states

New top story on Hacker News: Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Molecular Data Scientists to Help Cure Cancer

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach

New top story on Hacker News: The Palatino FAQ (1998)

New top story on Hacker News: Google Earth Timelapse

New top story on Hacker News: Dragonfly Mini – 2000km mission

New top story on Hacker News: Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings

New top story on Hacker News: Google is removing community contributions from YouTube

New top story on Hacker News: Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years

New top story on Hacker News: Reverse Engineering the PLA Chip in the Commodore 128

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Deck for Reddit – A Reddit client optimized for desktop

New top story on Hacker News: GifCities

New top story on Hacker News: Opera GX Gaming Browser

New top story on Hacker News: CurveBoards: Integrating Breadboards into Physical Objects

New top story from Time: NBA Players, Coaches and Referees Kneel in Solidarity as Unprecedented Bubble Season Begins

New top story on Hacker News: Solving the expiring. X.509 root CA certificate-mageddon, partly at least

New top story on Hacker News: Five Buck Fatigue

New top story on Hacker News: In October 1953 Paul Niquette coined the word 'software'

New top story on Hacker News: CareRev (YC S16) Is Looking for a SaaS Customer Success Manager

New top story on Hacker News: GPT-3 Examples

New top story on Hacker News: Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual

New top story on Hacker News: Empty stadiums have shrunk football teams’ home advantage

New top story on Hacker News: Luckysheet, an open source spreadsheet like Excel

New top story on Hacker News: Pending Postal Service Changes Could Delay Mail and Deliveries

New top story on Hacker News: Linear Logic Flavoured Composition of Petri Nets

New top story on Hacker News: Use YC's Work at a Startup to apply for hundreds of jobs with one application

New top story on Hacker News: What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

New top story on Hacker News: Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist's Palette

New top story on Hacker News: ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search

New top story on Hacker News: Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

New top story on Hacker News: Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets – including hints of a hidden ocean

New top story on Hacker News: Querying an RDF triplestore using SPARQL and Relational pipes

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists Crack the Mathematical Mystery of Stingless Bees’ Spiral Honeycombs

New top story on Hacker News: iRobot's New Education Robot Makes Learning to Code a Little More Affordable

New top story on Hacker News: A new funding model for open source software

Wikipedia article of the day for July 30, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) is hiring developers to save medicine to save lives

New top story on Hacker News: Tech CEOs Invoke the American Dream to Obscure the Nightmare They Created

New top story on Hacker News: Tihle: A unique TI calculator emulator

New top story on Hacker News: The Stutterer's Song: Remembering Bill Withers

New top story on Hacker News: AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings: Notebook and Server Sales Drive a Record Quarter

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3

New top story on Hacker News: Who was the first literary schlub?

New top story on Hacker News: Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Meet the Mozarts

New top story on Hacker News: SiFive Core IP 20G1

New top story on Hacker News: Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study

New top story on Hacker News: Place to Build a Subway

New top story on Hacker News: The Physics of Brute Force (and how it relates to cryptography)

New top story on Hacker News: Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test

New top story on Hacker News: Bread, How Did They Make It?

New top story on Hacker News: Jerry (YC S17) is hiring a senior engineer (Toronto, Silicon Valley)

New top story on Hacker News: Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary

New top story on Hacker News: Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling

New top story on Hacker News: Riding the Rays by Douglas Adams (1992)

New top story on Hacker News: Australia doubling fees for arts and humanities degrees

New top story on Hacker News: Stop Abusing Semver

New top story on Hacker News: Uninteresting Places

Wikipedia article of the day for July 29, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Hiring Without Whiteboards – Companies that don't have a broken hiring process

New top story on Hacker News: UTF-8 bit by bit (2001)

New top story on Hacker News: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

New top story on Hacker News: Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (2013)

New top story on Hacker News: 30 years of family videos in an AI archive

New top story on Hacker News: Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy

New top story on Hacker News: Calgary doctor says 40% drop in preterm births during lockdown is global trend

New top story on Hacker News: Accounting for Layman – The Double-Entry Counting Method

New top story on Hacker News: Usability of Footnotes

New top story on Hacker News: Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine

New top story on Hacker News: Can no longer send money via Gmail

New top story on Hacker News: Socialism’s DIY Computer

New top story on Hacker News: Alignment

New top story on Hacker News: How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?

New top story on Hacker News: Witches of Belvoir 'may have been framed' (2013)

New top story on Hacker News: Draftbit (YC W18) is hiring a Product Manager to build the future of no-code

New top story on Hacker News: Research shows irradiation may dramatically reduce corrosion from molten salts

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Would You Survive the Titanic?

New top story on Hacker News: The Grace of Manta Rays

New top story on Hacker News: DoNotPay Unsubscribes You from Spam–and Tries to Get You Paid

New top story on Hacker News: Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays

New top story on Hacker News: The Scourge of Hygiene Theater

New top story on Hacker News: A new way to control experimentation with dreams

Wikipedia article of the day for July 28, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Exotic “Blinking” Crystals May Convert CO2 into Fuels, Power Quantum Computers

New top story on Hacker News: Scent dog identification of samples from Covid-19 patients – a pilot study

New top story on Hacker News: Do computers make us more safe or less safe?

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Kardius – find people like you, near you – made with Rust and Rocket

New top story on Hacker News: Data Hunter-Gatherer

New top story on Hacker News: Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy

New top story on Hacker News: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

New top story on Hacker News: Everyone’s a Day Trader Now

New top story on Hacker News: Warren Buffett 1997 Email Exchange on Microsoft [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Dam built by robots? Japan's Obayashi tests it out

New top story from Time: U.S. Closes Consulate in Chengdu After Diplomatic Tit-for-Tat

New top story on Hacker News: Named arguments are coming in PHP 8

New top story from Time: Armed Black Lives Matter Protester in Austin Killed by Gunman Who Drove Car Into Crowd

New top story on Hacker News: ACCC alleges Google misled consumers about expanded use of personal data

New top story on Hacker News: Lost World: Schieks Cave (2009)

New top story on Hacker News: Poor Countries Are Running Out of Time to Get Rich

New top story on Hacker News: Reading Hard-to-Read Gravestones

New top story on Hacker News: Sledding athletes are taking their lives

New top story on Hacker News: One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat

New top story on Hacker News: Harry Eng, the Master of the “Impossible Bottle”

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: MathLingua – The Language of Mathematics

New top story on Hacker News: Research Based on the .NET Runtime

New top story on Hacker News: VM Computers

Wikipedia article of the day for July 27, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Luigi Model found in Mario 64 source code

New top story on Hacker News: Dead cattle led to the discovery of warfarin

New top story on Hacker News: Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps

New top story on Hacker News: Langcraft: Compile LLVM IR to Minecraft data packs

New top story on Hacker News: Pinebook Pro longer term usage report

New top story on Hacker News: Mao Kun Map

New top story on Hacker News: An origin story for a family of oddball meteorites

New top story on Hacker News: Deep JavaScript chapter: How do environments and closures work in JavaScript?

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open-source isolated browser, free for journalists etc.

New top story on Hacker News: An Intel 8080 Assembler and Online Simulator

New top story on Hacker News: No more religious exemptions: Montreal is taxing churches

New top story on Hacker News: Re-Frame: Build web apps in ClojureScript and React

New top story on Hacker News: Ice-forth: A self-hosted Forth on the 6502 for creating NES cartridges

New top story on Hacker News: Running DOS Apps on Windows

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Eyes Building Nuclear Power Plants on the Moon, Mars

New top story on Hacker News: D3js Tree of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

New top story on Hacker News: OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub

New top story on Hacker News: Everything you need (and don't need) to know about PHP's type system

New top story on Hacker News: Public Asked to Report Receipt of Any Unsolicited Packages of Seeds

New top story on Hacker News: Zucchinis linked to rare poisonings in England – Food Safety News

Wikipedia article of the day for July 26, 2020

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New top story on Hacker News: “The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World

New top story on Hacker News: America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis

New top story on Hacker News: Ozymandias

New top story on Hacker News: Digikam 7.0 Released with Neural network-based face Recognition

New top story on Hacker News: Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’

New top story on Hacker News: Wayland and LVGL on PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch

New top story on Hacker News: Remains of the Palace of Axayácatl and a house built by Cortés are discovered

New top story on Hacker News: LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison

New top story on Hacker News: Research Suggests Machu Picchu Was Purposely Built on Intersecting Fault Lines

New top story on Hacker News: 55% Yelp businesses that were temp closed are now perm

New top story on Hacker News: World's biggest museum exhibition of Bob Ross paintings. How'd it wind up in BC?

New top story on Hacker News: Bloomfilters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of math with Coq

New top story on Hacker News: Datahike: Durable Datalog database powered by an efficient Datalog query engine

New top story on Hacker News: WindTerm 1.4 – A Professional SSH/SFTP/Shell/Telnet/Serial Client for DevOps

New top story on Hacker News: How a Kalman filter works, in pictures

New top story on Hacker News: Dividing front end from back end is an antipattern

New top story on Hacker News: Flexport is hiring employees all over the world

New top story on Hacker News: Avoid character-by-character processing when performance matters

New top story on Hacker News: Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes

Fox News Breaking News Alert

New top story on Hacker News: Tiny Tiny RSS

New top story from Time: Let’s Break Down Taylor Swift’s Tender New Album Folklore

Wikipedia article of the day for July 25, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: SPAC Man Begins

New top story on Hacker News: FDA Updates on Hand Sanitizers with Methanol

New top story on Hacker News: Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

New top story on Hacker News: Best Data Science Books According to the Experts – Built In

New top story on Hacker News: Cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought

Fox News Breaking News Alert

New top story on Hacker News: How to validate your startup idea quickly

New top story on Hacker News: Nvidia will build 700-petaflop supercomputer for University of Florida

New top story on Hacker News: Judge rules Seattle media companies must hand over protest images to police

New top story on Hacker News: Sofa Mobility Report: Building mobility analytics similar to Apple and Google

New top story on Hacker News: The Digitized Culture Wars

New top story on Hacker News: Flaring from Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle Ford Shale

New top story from Time: ‘It’s So Much Worse Than Anyone Expected.’ Why Hong Kong’s National Security Law Is Having Such a Chilling Effect