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New top story on Hacker News: A Statistical Search for Genomic Truths

Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Olympian?

A Young Poet’s Inspiration

A Coda to Black History Month

Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

The Rise of Woke Capital

How to Really See a Blind Person

The Americans Left Behind by Deportation

New York Today: Can I Bring My Pet on Public Transit?

From ‘Vicious’ to Celebratory: The Times’s Reviews of Judy Chicago’s ‘The Dinner Party’

Germany Weighs Tighter Rules After Geely Takes Daimler Stake

New top story on Hacker News: Nietzsche, the middle period

Our Fifth Annual Student Editorial Contest: Write About an Issue That Matters to You

Security Clearance, N.R.A., Ben Carson: Your Wednesday Briefing

Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don’t Ask About Individual Humans.

What You Get for $850,000

With AR-15s, Mass Shooters Attack With the Rifle Firepower Typically Used by Infantry Troops

Amid Turkish Assault, Kurdish Forces Are Drawn Away From U.S. Fight With ISIS

Xi Sets China on a Collision Course With History

Spreadsheets at Dawn: The New Tax Battle Is All About Data

Once Again, Push for Gun Control Collides With Political Reality

How Low Can Unemployment Really Go? Economists Have No Idea

Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art

Why Ipoh, Malaysia, Should Be on Your Travel Radar

How to Bypass Airport Lines With the Tips of Your Fingers

How Women Are Rethinking the Tattoo Parlor

How Warby Parker’s Neil Blumenthal Disrupts His Daily Routine

The Warriors’ 70-Year-Old Truth-Teller

$850,000 Homes in Maine, North Carolina and Oregon

Once It Was Overdue Books. Now Librarians Fight Overdoses.

What Is the Perfect Color Worth?

José Andrés Fights Starvation With Mayo

A Painful Bruise Wouldn’t Heal. It Took Several Hospital Visits to Discover Why.

‘You Can’t Be Afraid of the Tech’

Stephen Colbert Attacks Trump for Reluctance to Act on Russian Meddling

National Identity is Made Up

New top story on Hacker News: Set-top box maker TiVo exploring options, could go private

New top story on Hacker News: African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each other how to get there

New top story on Hacker News: Deluxe printing: Antoine Vérard’s 1498 illuminated Merlin

Echoes of Lynchings in Quiet Photos

Teaching Activities for: ‘With Xi’s Power Grab, China Joins New Era of Strongmen’

New top story on Hacker News: Method and apparatus for controlling electric currents (1925) [pdf]

A Big Divergence Is Coming in Health Care Among States

New top story on Hacker News: The Invention of the Ford V8 Engine (2015) [video]

New top story on Hacker News: New Story (nonprofit S15) Is Hiring Impact Data Analyst

New top story on Hacker News: The ramifications of a new type of gene

New top story on Hacker News: Bohemian Tragedy: The rise and fall of George Sterling’s California arts colony

New top story on Hacker News: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

New top story on Hacker News: Why New Zealand is releasing a rabbit-killing virus

New top story on Hacker News: Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (1980)

New top story on Hacker News: Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails

New top story on Hacker News: Konva – HTML5 2d canvas library for desktop and mobile applications

New top story on Hacker News: Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes capture

New top story on Hacker News: Ride-Sharing Congests City Traffic

New top story on Hacker News: A Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol

New top story on Hacker News: Smartphone sales fall for the first time, says Gartner

New top story on Hacker News: The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

New top story on Hacker News: Carta for Public Companies

New top story on Hacker News: The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)

New top story on Hacker News: Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function iterative

New top story on Hacker News: The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin’s Doomed Meteorologist

New top story on Hacker News: Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?

New top story on Hacker News: Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon to acquire video doorbell maker Ring

New top story on Hacker News: Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in virtual currencies

New top story on Hacker News: Pricing low-touch SaaS

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

New top story on Hacker News: Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018

New top story on Hacker News: After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat

Pay Me a Pineapple

Why the World Should Learn to Say ‘Heimat’

Portrait of a Turkish Novelist as Prisoner

Boys and Men

Word + Quiz: ascetic

Where Pedestrian Deaths Are Up, Is Marijuana to Blame?

Diesel Cars, Italy’s Upcoming Election, Jared Kushner: Your Wednesday Briefing

What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Looming Tower’ and ‘Waco’

As Xi Tightens His Grip on China, U.S. Sees Conflict Ahead

Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump

11 Sickened by Hazardous Envelope Opened on Military Base

Judge Orders Tarps Removed From Confederate Statues in Charlottesville

Quotation of the Day: N.R.A. Battle Pits Business Against G.O.P.