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New top story on Hacker News: Yet another alternative to floating-point numbers

New top story on Hacker News: Intent to stop using null in my (JavaScript) code

New top story on Hacker News: BCON20 – Blender Conference: Together Apart

New top story on Hacker News: The story of the PDF

New top story on Hacker News: Academic Substack: Open, Free, and Subject to Review

Wikipedia article of the day for November 1, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: China's Draft 'Personal Information Protection Law' (Full Translation)

New top story on Hacker News: Nat Slipstreaming

New top story on Hacker News: AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head for Ball

New top story on Hacker News: Ropes, an Alternative to Strings [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Goodbye, Native Apps

New top story on Hacker News: Joe Rogan Experience #1556 – Glenn Greenwald

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder

New top story on Hacker News: FPGAwars: Exploring the Open Side of the FPGAs

New top story on Hacker News: Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre (2009) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter backs down and unlocks NY Post account

New top story on Hacker News: Foundations of Software Engineering

New top story on Hacker News: Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?

New top story on Hacker News: The invisible struggle of the Asian American small-business owner

New top story on Hacker News: Why Are We Living in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction? (2019)

New top story on Hacker News: A Better Mousetrap – Converting WebPages to Web APIs

New top story on Hacker News: PG&E should be fined $166M for botched power shut-offs, watchdog says

New top story on Hacker News: Packaging Kubernetes for Debian

New top story on Hacker News: Distributed Systems Learning Notes

New top story on Hacker News: Fear of white space

New top story on Hacker News: Art After the Plague: How painters through the ages have responded to contagion

New top story on Hacker News: Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease

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New top story on Hacker News: California Property Taxes Mapped

New top story on Hacker News: How to create minimal music with code in any programming language

Wikipedia article of the day for October 31, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light

New top story on Hacker News: How to Deal with Extreme Physical Pain

New top story on Hacker News: Generating bingo cards with clojure.spec, Clojure/test.check, RDD and TDD

New top story on Hacker News: Index (YC S19) Is hiring founding engineer to make metrics dashboards fun

New top story on Hacker News: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains: Why Some Memories Seem Like Movies

New top story on Hacker News: Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality

New top story on Hacker News: Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft

New top story on Hacker News: United States Patent Application: Fabric with Embedded Electrical Components

New top story on Hacker News: Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile

New top story on Hacker News: Ruby's Proposed STM

New top story on Hacker News: I did some tests with React's renderer to analyze its rendering behavior

New top story on Hacker News: Getting Audio Visualizations Working with Web Audio API

New top story on Hacker News: The 8th Wonder of the World: Foxconn Mirage Factory in Wisconsin

New top story on Hacker News: The conflicts among the members of the Commission on Freedom of the Press

New top story on Hacker News: Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response

New top story on Hacker News: Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of

New top story on Hacker News: Cecilia Chiang, SF chef who brought authentic Chinese food to US, dies at 100

New top story on Hacker News: Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

New top story on Hacker News: DeepSource (YC W20) Is hiring software engineers

Wikipedia article of the day for October 30, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Blair Witch is free from Epic Games

New top story on Hacker News: Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption

New top story on Hacker News: The Corporatization of Nursing Homes

New top story on Hacker News: Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (2004)

New top story on Hacker News: Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers

New top story on Hacker News: Monkeytype – A Minimalistic Typing Test

New top story on Hacker News: How to walk upright and stop living in a cave

New top story on Hacker News: To protect democracy, journalists need to learn to think like hackers and spies

New top story on Hacker News: figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

New top story on Hacker News: Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

New top story from Time: U.S. Hospitals Targeted in Ransomware Attacks, FBI Says

New top story on Hacker News: What's in a Linux Executable?

New top story on Hacker News: Sexual Eeling

New top story on Hacker News: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why

New top story from Time: ‘We Share the Ideals of Democracy.’ How the Milk Tea Alliance Is Brewing Solidarity Among Activists in Asia and Beyond

New top story from Time: No Matter Who Wins the U.S. Election, Relations With China Are at a Crossroads

New top story on Hacker News: I Violated a Code of Conduct

New top story on Hacker News: Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

New top story on Hacker News: Actively maintained YouTube-DL GitHub repo

New top story on Hacker News: FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent,Credible Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

New top story on Hacker News: Canadian military tested propaganda mission on Canadians that went off the rails

New top story on Hacker News: A Bayesian Perspective on Q-Learning

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New top story on Hacker News: Bullet Train: Open-source feature flagging

Wikipedia article of the day for October 29, 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Bazel Build System Support for LLVM

New top story on Hacker News: Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

New top story on Hacker News: Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics

New top story on Hacker News: John McAfee Developed One of the First Social Networks

New top story on Hacker News: Senate report says Google's AMP should be policed by the FTC

New top story on Hacker News: Property List Parsing Bug(s): Crashing macOS via malformed binary plists

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New top story on Hacker News: The Fall of Silicon Valley

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless

New top story on Hacker News: How the Man Who Invented Xbox Baked a 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sourdough

New top story on Hacker News: A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane

New top story on Hacker News: How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption

New top story on Hacker News: A CIA Office Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Crippling Headaches

New top story on Hacker News: When is no-code useful?

New top story on Hacker News: Hubbard and the Empress (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: Google's new logos are bad

New top story on Hacker News: Per Brinch Hansen books on compilers scanned, page updated

New top story on Hacker News: Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation

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New top story on Hacker News: OnlyFans Faces Allegations of Fraud, Theft

New top story on Hacker News: The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year

New top story on Hacker News: ClipDrop AR Copy Paste

Wikipedia article of the day for October 28, 2020

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New top story on Hacker News: John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

New top story on Hacker News: D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic

New top story on Hacker News: MIOS: IBM 5150 BIOS Replacement Project

New top story on Hacker News: Arctic Sea Ice not freezing In October – first time since measurements began

New top story on Hacker News: FEATool Multiphysics – Physics Simulation Made Easy

New top story on Hacker News: Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon

New top story on Hacker News: James Randi in Memoriam, 1928–2020

New top story on Hacker News: Improving Postgres Connection Scalability: Snapshots

New top story on Hacker News: Texturetop – Texture Profiling (2004)

New top story on Hacker News: How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Root Cause – A tool for debugging Puppeteer and Playwright tests

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New top story on Hacker News: The fog of war in healthcare

New top story on Hacker News: Org Mode's New Site

New top story on Hacker News: Joey Chestnut

New top story on Hacker News: The Need for Touch

New top story on Hacker News: The Nordic concept of friluftsliv – outdoor life

New top story from Time: Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court Just Over a Week Before Election Day