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FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille.

Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match

Why China Turned Against Jack Ma

No ‘Negative’ News: How China Censored the Coronavirus

Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’

Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Apologizes and Offers Refund for Game Glitches

New top story on Hacker News: Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing

Vaccinated? Show Us Your App

U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition

FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State

He Pretended to Be Trump’s Family. Then Trump Fell for It.

New top story on Hacker News: Jerry, Inc. (YC S17) Is Hiring a Technical SEO Analyst

How Joe Biden’s Digital Team Tamed the MAGA Internet

Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.

Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion

London A.I. Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery

Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal

‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups

New top story on Hacker News: Technical phone screen superforecasters

Meet the top election misinformation ‘superspreaders.’

No, Trump’s sister did not publicly back him. He was duped by a fake account.

How Sidney Powell inaccurately cited Venezuela’s elections as evidence of U.S. fraud.

New top story on Hacker News: Writing a technical book: from idea to print

New top story on Hacker News: On Exactitude in Technical Debt

New top story on Hacker News: Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look

New top story on Hacker News: What a great technical resume can do for you

No, Dominion voting machines did not delete Trump votes.

No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.

Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps

Postal worker withdraws claim that ballots were backdated in Pennsylvania, officials say.

Shocked by Trump’s Loss, QAnon Struggles to Keep the Faith

No, 21,000 Dead People in Pennsylvania Did Not Vote

How Claims of Dead Michigan Voters Spread Faster Than the Facts

New top story on Hacker News: Technical debt as a lack of understanding

No, Joe Biden Wasn’t Suddenly Awarded 138,000 Votes in Michigan

Trump Campaign Website Is Defaced by Hackers

Ant Group Set to Raise $34 Billion in World’s Biggest I.P.O.

Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet

How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine

New top story on Hacker News: Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software

Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police

U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place

New top story on Hacker News: Managing Technical Quality in a Codebase

New top story on Hacker News: JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing

When Your Last $166 Vanishes: ‘Fast Fraud’ Surges on Payment Apps

New top story on Hacker News: JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing

New top story on Hacker News: Ur-Technical Debt

New top story on Hacker News: Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring an Implementation and Technical Partnership Manager

New top story on Hacker News: No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technically it is (2015)

Liberals Ask: Why Should We Believe Trump Has the Virus?

New top story on Hacker News: QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Technical Writer

The Long History of ‘Hidden Earpiece’ Conspiracy Theories

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Technical skills helpful for building a startup today

Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal

New top story on Hacker News: Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

Google Services Go Down in Some Parts of U.S.

New top story on Hacker News: NSA Technical Report on UEFI Secure Boot Customization [pdf]

Trump Jump-Starts Misinformation on Ginsburg’s ‘Dying Wish’

New top story on Hacker News: PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation

New top story on Hacker News: Red flags I saw while doing 60 technical interviews in 30 days

Oracle Chosen as TikTok’s Tech Partner, as Microsoft’s Bid Is Rejected

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Where to meet non-technical cofounders?

New top story on Hacker News: Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Technical Delivery Manager in Denver

New top story on Hacker News: The Technical Interview Is an Ego Trip

Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started.

Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook and Twitter Say

Zuckerberg Says Facebook's Failure to Remove Militia Page an 'Operational Mistake'

What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?

Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results

What Is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory?

Debunking 3 Viral Falsehoods About Kamala Harris

Fortnite Creator Sues Apple and Google After Ban From App Stores

QAnon Followers Are Hijacking the #SaveTheChildren Movement