THE HAGUE — The far-right politician Geert Wilders fell short of expectations in Dutch elections on Wednesday, gaining seats but failing to persuade a decisive portion of voters to back his extreme positions on barring Muslim immigrants and jettisoning the European Union, according to official…

Are you ready for the International Day of Happiness? It's coming up on March 20th (because Mondays are obviously the happiest day of the week). It's an actual, globally celebrated holiday , created by the United Nations, in which everybody in the world takes one day to ... well, we're not quite…

Adobe, one of the world’s largest and most powerful software companies, is trying something new: It’s applying machine learning and image recognition to graphic and web design. In an unnamed project, the company has created tools that automate designers’ tasks, like cropping photos and designing web…

Harry Truman fired Douglas MacArthur in April, 1951, provoking outrage among Republicans. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTHONY CAMERANO / AP Some five weeks into the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, a Gallup poll shows him with a historically low approval rate—about forty per cent, far worse than any predecessor at…

Voice North Korea isn’t testing its missiles. It’s preparing for a nuclear first strike. By | TOPSHOT - This undated picture released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on March 7, 2017 shows the launch of four ballistic missiles by the Korean People's Army (KPA) during a…

From The Evening Standard/Eyevine/Redux. RuPaul is an icon. That word gets flung around with ease these days, long removed from its religious etymology. But in the modern sense—the one that connotes cultural importance—the drag superstar with a decades-long career as a pop-culture provocateur more…

The following guest post is by Grace Ng , cofounder of Javelin.com , an enterprise software and services company for implementing Lean Startup. "We're launching our Minimum Viable Product in three months," entrepreneurs often tell me. "Why three months?" "We need to have these features in place to…

This post was written by Nina Nazionale, Director of Library Operations . The Social Security Act , a program through which employers and employees contribute money to an account to be drawn upon in retirement, went into effect in November 1936. During the next seven months, 30 million Americans…

Summer vacation just got a little shorter for Colin Jost and Michael Che, the two “Saturday Night Live” cast members who anchor its long-running “Weekend Update” news satire. On Tuesday, NBC said that it would broadcast a special prime-time edition of “Weekend Update” this summer, when “S.N.L.” will…

Speaking a different language—whether it’s your grandparents’ tongue or high-school Spanish—fundamentally changes the structure of your brain. Put a bunch of these malleable minds together in a company, and you create the potential for some truly original thinking. We already know that businesses…

The British pot is meeting the Scottish kettle. While London works to extricate itself from the European Union, Scotland is readying for yet another referendum on independence from the United Kingdom. And Scotland’s leaders are turning the Brexiteers’ own words against them to justify a new…

The reason people like to complain about municipalities' slow response to pothole complaints is because municipalities are slow to respond to pothole complaints. But group that calls itself Portland Anarchist Road Care is taking matters into its own hands by illegally repairing potholes around town.…

Angelica Alzona I usually stretch a Tinder chat over days or even weeks, warily circling a guy to make sure he seems like a decent human. But on that sticky summer night, Bob* put me at ease right away. He was in an open relationship, just like me. He talked frankly and respectfully about sex. He…

GorillaStump at work In a gritty vintage video games store in Manhattan’s East Village, a man who would only be identified by GorillaStomp, his PlayStation username, firmly explained why he should fix your video game console. Long before it was his livelihood, it was his fascination, and one he’d…

March 10, 2017 Op-Ed 64890 I was asked on Quora what Google will look like in 2030 . Since that is one of the most important issues the world is facing right now, I took some time to answer it in full. Larry Page, one of Google’s two co-founders, once said off-handedly that Google is not about…

Photo: Will Heath/NBC Since the election, Alec Baldwin has regularly been on the media circuit, talking about Donald Trump. But this week, his tone seemed to change. Compare his Jimmy Kimmel interview from last week to his James Corden one from a few days ago: In the former, he’s joking around, faux…

Update: For those joining in late 2017, I've been hunting for a laptop with limited success. Read on for what I've settled on, or discuss on HN . If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know. Ask for a suggestion of what computer to get, and I’ll almost certainly…

How to embrace vulnerability and build better products We all know from people like Brené Brown that we should embrace vulnerability, but how does it actually make our products better ? When I’m feeling vulnerable or overwhelmed, I tend to withdraw and take a step back. It’s my way of keeping an…

Why you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests and forget about MVPs. There is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product. It’s a way of testing whether you’ve found a problem worth solving. A way to reduce risk and quickly test your biggest assumption. Instead of…

The physical space My core studies come from the field of Industrial design and more accurately from Product design. As a student I remember very clear that from Day 1 they used to tell us that: “All design is human-centered and solves a problem. If it's not human-centered and doesn’t solve a…

Stephen Bannon at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 23. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) In the three years before he became Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency. No presidential adviser…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) In November, a new genre of YouTube video emerged. The premise was simple: Vloggers documented their long and often trying journeys to pay tribute to a big metal box as it traveled across the United States, from Venice Beach to Catoosa to the Grand Canyon to…

Geert Wilders’s anti-establishment, anti-Muslim agenda would get a boost even if he fails to become Prime Minister this month. PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN / AFP / GETTY On the day of Donald Trump’s election, I happened to be in Amsterdam. That night, while people in the U.S. were still going…

Jordan Peele and Daniel Kaluuya (Getty Images/Ringer illustration) “I have four other social thrillers that I want to unveil in the next decade,” Jordan Peele, director of the hit horror comedy Get Out , told Business Insider a week before the movie’s release in February. “I’ve been working on these…

(Creepypasta/Wikia/Ringer illustration) In 1970, the Elgin Theater in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood decided to screen a strange movie at a strange time. The movie was El Topo , a violent, surrealist Western by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky that had previously been exhibited only in…

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I’m sure there are plenty of videos that have gone viral faster, but given that my Twitter feed is a mix of journalists, tech analysts, and NBA folks, there seemed to be a special resonance to this clip of a father in South Korea commenting on the removal of once-President Park Geun-hye , only to be…

Jet lag makes everyone miserable. But it makes some people mentally ill. There’s a psychiatric hospital not far from Heathrow Airport that is known for treating bipolar and schizophrenic travelers, some of whom are occasionally found wandering aimlessly through the terminals. A study from the 1980s…

Killer Mike, rapper, civil rights activist and potential future President of the United States, was honored by the Georgia Senate yesterday . The State recognized both Mike and his semi-namesake tunnel-boring drill, Driller Mike, were recognized as "outstanding ambassadors of the City of Atlanta's…

In referring to slaves as “immigrants,” Ben Carson followed a long-standing American tradition of eliding the ugliness that is part of the country’s history. PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL CLARK / GETTY Earlier this week, Ben Carson, the somnolent surgeon dispatched to oversee the Department of Housing and…

What Barack Obama understood, and Donald Trump perhaps doesn’t, is that seeing a President unguarded in photographs need not necessarily diminish the respect he commands as a leader. PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN CROWLEY / THE NEW YORK TIMES / REDUX Last Friday, as President Trump was making another weekend…

The design world is having an iridescent moment . You may recognize it in Sebastian Scherer’s lovely pendant lights, designed to look like “ a permanent iridescent soap bubble” . Or in Patricia Urquiola’s cool gradient Shimmer collection for Glas Italia from 2015. Last year, Tom Dixon released a…

Story highlights It's a shadowy world that's closed off even to those typically in the know in bureau headquarters Their cases sometimes go on for years amid careful, tedious, behind-the-scenes work Washington (CNN) Somewhere in the halls of the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, a closely held…

Between seemingly nonstop political jolts and springlike winter days, the world has felt like a pretty unstable place lately. As news alerts buzz your phone and temperatures fluctuate wildly from day to day, you may ask yourself, are there any stable places left in the world? The answer is yes. So,…

The House of Lords voted to give Britain’s Parliament a greater say over the outcome of talks on exiting the European Union. Niklas Halle'N/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LONDON — Theresa May, who became Britain’s prime minister last year, has resisted any and all efforts to constrain her…

It’s perfectly understandable why Saturday Night Live avoided going to either of its two biggest stars for the political cold open of its last episode. The performances of Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump and Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer have helped bring the show back into the zeitgeist after…

If you write code for a living, there’s a chance that at some point in your career, someone will ask you to code something a little deceitful – if not outright unethical. This happened to me back in the year 2000. And it’s something I’ll never be able to forget. I wrote my first line of code at 6…

There are few classes of consumer electronics that have had as exhilarating heights and as cringe-inducing lows as video game consoles. Since the Magnavox Odyssey plugged into TVs back in 1972 and delivered Pong to the masses, gaming consoles have demanded our attention. Some have been…