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Kodak’s chief executive was given stock options. Then the share price spiked 1,000 percent.

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft Shutting Down Cortana on Multiple Devices, Including iOS and Android

New top story on Hacker News: Designing a Physics Engine

New top story on Hacker News: IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Corrections: Aug. 1, 2020

Quotation of the Day: China Wields Its Security Law to Crush Hong Kong Dissent

New top story on Hacker News: Cardiovascular MRI in Patients Recently Recovered from Covid-19

New top story on Hacker News: Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release

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

New top story on Hacker News: Final Ruling Against Patreon Opens Legal Avenue to Defend Against Deplatforming

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: Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (2015)

Un estudio revela que los niños podrían portar altos niveles de coronavirus

New top story on Hacker News: OpenAI API

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

Canada’s Key Role in Creating a Once Awaited Vaccine

Federal Agents Don’t Need Army Fatigues

Kodak’s chief executive got stock options. The next day, the share price spiked 1,000 percent.

Court Frees Michigan Teen Who Was Held for Skipping Online Schoolwork

A Better Year for Trump’s Family Business (Last Year, That Is)

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

The Less Impossible Israeli-Palestinian Peace

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: Google is removing community contributions from YouTube

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: 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

Republicans and White House at Odds Over Kansas Senate Race

Ellen DeGeneres Apologizes to Staff Members as WarnerMedia Investigates Show

New top story on Hacker News: Opera GX Gaming Browser

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

4 Guards Charged in Inmate’s Beating at Alabama Prison

Will Herman Cain’s Death Change Republican Views on the Virus and Masks?

Louie Gohmert’s Coronavirus Case Reveals a Dangerous Reality in Congress

Trump Floats an Election Delay, and Republicans Shoot It Down

4 Hong Kong Activists Arrested for Online Posts Under New Security Law

Casino Calculation

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

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

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

Casino Calculation

Report: N.B.A.’s Academies in China Abused Athletes

Quotation of the Day: New Resistance in Remote City Confronts Putin

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: Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets – including hints of a hidden ocean

New top story on Hacker News: ITER: Make your own tokamak with 3D printing

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

Justice Ginsburg in the Hospital Again

Corrections: July 30, 2020

Ashleigh Barty Will Skip U.S. Open

The Tanned Man Has a Green Monster

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: A new funding model for open source software

Ashley Judd Can Sue Harvey Weinstein for Sexual Harassment, Court Rules

One in Three Children Have Unacceptably High Lead Levels, Study Says

Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders

As Trump Undercuts Aid Talks, White House Says Extra Jobless Benefits Will Lapse

Atlanta Mourns John Lewis and Ponders Carrying on With ‘Good Trouble’

‘Nobody Likes Me,’ Trump Complains, Renewing Defense of Dubious Science

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

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)

Something That Is Bid

Quotation of the Day: Overwhelmed Funeral Homes in South Texas Struggle to Keep Up

Barr Clashes With House Democrats, Defending Responses to Protests and Russia Inquiry

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

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

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: Uninteresting Places

Remdesivir Could Be in Short Supply. Here’s a Fix.

‘Nobody Likes Me,’ Trump Complains, Renewing Defense of Dubious Science

Corrections: July 29, 2020

Minneapolis Police Link Mystery ‘Umbrella Man’ to White Supremacy Group

New top story on Hacker News: Stop Abusing Semver

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

The Director Gina Prince-Bythewood Has Always Had Game

177 Questions to Inspire Writing, Discussion, Debate and Reflection

If Our Masks Could Speak

Banksy and Rembrandt Boost Sotheby’s Sale to $192.7 Million

Niels Lauersen, Fallen Fertility Doctor to the Stars, Dies at 84

‘I Just Don’t Get It’: Republicans Balk at Funding F.B.I. Building in Virus Bill

New top story on Hacker News: Alignment

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: How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?

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

Outs’ Opposites

Georgia Senator Is Criticized for Ad Enlarging Jewish Opponent’s Nose

Florida Man Took Coronavirus Aid and Bought a Lamborghini, Officials Say

Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’: Let’s Discuss

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: The Grace of Manta Rays

Peaceful Protesters With ‘Room for Rage’ Sympathize With Aggressive Tactics

MGM delays live entertainment and expects to lay off workers in that division.