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John McCain: Sarah Palin 'excluded from his funeral'

Bobi Wine: Uganda's pop star MP 're-arrested at airport'

Argentina raises rates as peso plummets

Florida sheriff backs Uber driver who killed 'goofball'

Hayabusa-2: Japan sets date for spacecraft's asteroid touchdown

Macron: French 'Gauls' resistant to change, unlike 'Lutheran' Danes

Stéphane Pauwels arrest: Football presenter charged over armed robbery

McCain and Biden's long friendship

The power of 'pink money' in India

Colorado police tell handcuffed journalist: 'Act like a lady'

The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest

Why a plane is dropping trout into a lake from above

Tablet bends 'like ancient scroll'

How Eto'o helped homeless ex-Cameroon captain

Kanye West finally answers Jimmy Kimmel's Donald Trump question

Why were there so many serial killers in the 1980s?

Why Australia is talking about a French au pair

Movie madness: Why Chinese cinemas are empty but full

Iosif Kobzon: Russians mourn 'Soviet Sinatra'

Why India activist arrests have kicked up a storm

Multiple Violent Attacks Against Believers Reveal Just How Dangerous it is For Pakistani Christians

Nigerian Schoolgirl Who Refuses to Denounce Jesus Begs for Freedom

U.S. to End Funding to U.N. Agency That Helps Palestinian Refugees

Honey, I Swept the Floor!

Yankees Looking to Trade for Andrew McCutchen, a Former M.V.P.

Why You Should Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make

What’s on TV Friday: ‘Ozark’ and ‘Jack Ryan’

How Germany’s Far Right Stole a Rallying Cry for Democracy

How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Today Than When You Were Born?

Mob Protests in Germany Show New Strength of the Far Right

President Trump Had a Lot to Say at His Rally and on Twitter. But Not About John McCain.

‘An Attack on Students’ Rights’: Reactions to Betsy DeVos’s New Rules on Sexual Assault

2 Passengers Charged With Sexual Assault Aboard Aircraft as F.B.I. Cracks Down

Quotation of the Day: Tears, Laughter and Allusions to a Man Who Wasn’t Invited

Yankees, With Strongest Home Run Muscles, Are Outdone by a Weakling

Caroline Wozniacki Becomes Latest Giant to Fall at Armstrong

Nick Kyrgios Was Struggling. The Chair Umpire Stepped Down and Stepped In.

Corrections: August 31, 2018

Works With Kids

Ronan Farrow’s Ex-Producer Says NBC Impeded Weinstein Reporting

Germany, Vanilla Beans, Riz Ahmed: Your Friday Briefing

Rumba, the Dance of Love

New top story on Hacker News: Worst-case complexity of TimSort finally unveiled

New top story on Hacker News: On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher

New top story on Hacker News: Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?

New top story on Hacker News: Bureaucracy as Active Ingredient

New top story on Hacker News: RevenueCat (YC S18) is hiring our first SDK engineer

New top story on Hacker News: How much countries spend in R&D

New top story on Hacker News: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

New top story on Hacker News: Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech

New top story on Hacker News: San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

New top story on Hacker News: 'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game

New top story on Hacker News: Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work

New top story on Hacker News: A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector

New top story on Hacker News: “Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

New top story on Hacker News: My Own Private CDN

New top story on Hacker News: Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response

New top story on Hacker News: A Wild Alaskan Island That Inspired a Lost Classic

New top story on Hacker News: The Man Who Walked Backward

New top story on Hacker News: Krypton: phone-based U2F Authenticator

New top story on Hacker News: Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job

New top story on Hacker News: Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

New top story on Hacker News: People Hacks for Technical Leads

New top story on Hacker News: CLI: Improved

New top story on Hacker News: The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks

New top story on Hacker News: Bullshit Jobs

New top story on Hacker News: Viewtron

New top story on Hacker News: Relationship Between Practice and Performance in Sports: A Meta-Analysis (2016) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: When Science Was Big (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: How TripAdvisor Changed Travel

New top story on Hacker News: The FMV Pipeline of “Full Throttle Remastered”

Actress Tried To Use Acid And Alligators To Dispose Of Husband's Ex-Wife

Candidate accused: Trump loyalist Duncan Hunter may show a criminal indictment isn’t the end of the campaign road

Puerto Ricans Are ‘Outraged But Not Surprised’ By New Hurricane Maria Death Toll

The Latest: Police say 7 killed in New Mexico crash

Scallops row warnings 'fell on deaf ears', say UK fishermen, after French 'hurl rocks and smoke bombs' at boats

Newlywed Couple Killed in Crash on Way to Honeymoon: 'Don't Take a Day for Granted'

Couple arrested after friend's body parts found in bags

Archbishop who called on Pope to resign says corruption reaches the top

Former Texas Cop Found Guilty Of Murder In Shooting Unarmed Teenager Jordan Edwards

Mock hearings and staged protests: Inside the White House's 'intense' preparations for Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation

Candy Crash: Truck Full Of Sweets Overturns In Highway Road Rage Incident

At least four dead in New Mexico after bus collides with truck

Last-ditch talks to avert battle for Syria's Idlib

IAEA says Iran continues to meet nuclear obligations

Chris Watts Murder Case: Man Claims He Had Affair With Dad Accused of Killing Wife, Kids

Chile's Santiago Archbishop says regrets 'tension' in the Church

Police Find Ohio Teen Who Disappeared After He Witnessed Dad's Killing

44 Hearty Fall Slow-Cooker Recipes

Elon Musk revives claim that Thai cave rescue hero is a 'pedo' after denying he cried in interview

Bank Of America Faces Backlash After Freezing Accounts Over Citizenship Questions

S. Korea police raid BMW office over car fires

Thousands line up in Arizona heat to pay respects to McCain

Harley-Davidson F-150 Making a Comeback

Woman convicted of using acid and alligators to hide a dead body

U.S. argues Harvard admissions policies harm Asian-Americans

White House Counsel Don McGahn To Depart This Fall

11 Of Our Favorite Home Finds From Wayfair's Labor Day Sale

Belgian steel executive found dead in Moscow street

Hunter killed in attack by polar bear in Canada

Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico mayor derides Trump actions

US Open 2018: Serena Williams catsuit row '10,000 times worse', says Alize Cornet

Vodafone in $11bn Australian merger

US woman's boyfriend 'cut brakes before deadly car crash'

US homeless man sues couple over $400,000 fundraiser money

Coffee war brews in the land of tea

Cate Blanchett urges more support for Rohingya Muslims

Jamel Myles' mother: 'I blame myself for my son's suicide'

Stars hit Venice Film Festival red carpet

What's got these New Yorkers in a buzz?

Fireball caught on camera over Perth

Los Angeles 'dine-and-dash' dater faces possible jail time

Cuomo-Nixon debate: Can a room temperature really be sexist?

Uzbekistan tax officials to wear family ID badges

Pope Francis faces twin battle in Church split over sexual abuse

From catcalls to murder: What female joggers face on every run

Why a village in New Zealand is trying to ban all cats

The woman who founded the 'incel' movement

Reality Check: How does Africa trade with the EU?

US mid-terms: The political storm brewing in Arizona

Iran Sentences 4 Christians to 45 Years in Prison for Believing in Jesus Christ

MUST SEE PHOTOS: Operation Blessing Helping India's Flood-Ravaged Victims Get Back on their Feet

Here Are the Countries Where the World’s Most Committed Christians Live

New top story on Hacker News: C considered dangerous

New top story on Hacker News: Norway's Plan for a Fleet of Electric Planes

New top story on Hacker News: America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people?

New top story on Hacker News: Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses

New top story on Hacker News: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences

New top story on Hacker News: General Transparency

New top story on Hacker News: Second-quarter US GDP growth revised up to 4.2 percent on software, trade

New top story on Hacker News: Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research

New top story on Hacker News: A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

New top story on Hacker News: How to use LEDs to detect light

New top story on Hacker News: A map of London as it was during the era of the Tudor monarchs

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

New top story on Hacker News: SurveyMonkey S-1

New top story on Hacker News: ‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?

New top story on Hacker News: We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

New top story on Hacker News: Transmuting Low-Value Programmer Cred into High-Value Status Illegibility

New top story on Hacker News: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Bye bye BetterSlack

New top story on Hacker News: Google, but for colors

New top story on Hacker News: We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out?

New top story on Hacker News: The New Reading Environment

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A smarthome dashboard concept using zircle-ui

New top story on Hacker News: CAPPORT Architecture

New top story on Hacker News: Expressive Temperature

New top story on Hacker News: OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents

New top story on Hacker News: The Big 5.0: Transit app gets a makeover

New top story on Hacker News: Rideshare boycott sparked by murders in China

New top story on Hacker News: “I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinking It Was Me”

New top story on Hacker News: Silver Coins Lead to One of the Earliest Roman Sites in Yorkshire

Lost in the Storm

Maureen Dowd, in Australia, Explains Trump’s ‘Ego Arithmetic’

For Sale: 55-Foot-Tall Lobster. Owners in a Pinch. Can You Help?