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1. How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer (markosaric.com)
1238 points by markosaric on Dec 5, 2019 | 539 comments
2. Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2 (aidungeon.io)
584 points by nickwalton00 on Dec 5, 2019 | 220 comments
3. Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots (selfhostedsource.tech)
656 points by techindex on Dec 5, 2019 | 112 comments
4. Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor (mattstoller.substack.com)
781 points by jashkenas on Dec 5, 2019 | 310 comments
5. Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package (github.com/swiftlatex)
741 points by LegitGandalf on Dec 5, 2019 | 114 comments
6. Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
882 points by learnaholic on Dec 5, 2019 | 209 comments
7. The Amazon Builders' Library (amazon.com)
469 points by mooreds on Dec 5, 2019 | 48 comments
8. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up (bnef.com)
375 points by howard941 on Dec 5, 2019 | 318 comments
9. The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand (vox.com)
287 points by luu on Dec 3, 2019 | 195 comments
10. Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests (krebsonsecurity.com)
299 points by feross on Dec 5, 2019 | 162 comments
11. How I Switched to Plan 9 (cat-v.org)
313 points by Seirdy on Dec 4, 2019 | 161 comments
12. Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections (seclists.org)
320 points by jedisct1 on Dec 5, 2019 | 126 comments
13. Is Arm ready for server dominance? (scylladb.com)
251 points by PeterCorless on Dec 5, 2019 | 132 comments
14. I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit (reddit.com)
506 points by rahuldottech on Dec 5, 2019 | 349 comments
15. America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Study Says (nytimes.com)
294 points by luu on Dec 5, 2019 | 128 comments
16. A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier (vice.com)
308 points by danso on Dec 5, 2019 | 715 comments
17. Get PostgreSQL Database Structure as a Detailed JavaScript Object (pg-structure.com)
158 points by stephen on Dec 5, 2019 | 29 comments
18. A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments (learnk8s.io)
240 points by Cantaro86 on Dec 5, 2019 | 53 comments
19. Arcade Game Typography (readonlymemory.vg)
215 points by Impossible on Dec 5, 2019 | 47 comments
20. A Distributed Meeting Primer (randsinrepose.com)
129 points by mooreds on Dec 4, 2019 | 23 comments
21. How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games (arstechnica.com)
197 points by Tomte on Dec 4, 2019 | 78 comments
22. Kill Sticky Headers (2013) (mcdiarmid.org)
176 points by goranmoomin on Dec 4, 2019 | 81 comments
23. Busyness leads to bad decisions (bbc.com)
210 points by hhs on Dec 3, 2019 | 80 comments
24. Snibgo's ImageMagick Pages (2014) (snibgo.com)
106 points by siftrics on Dec 5, 2019 | 7 comments
25. FIND3: High-precision indoor positioning framework (github.com/schollz)
109 points by tlrobinson on Dec 4, 2019 | 28 comments
26. The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010) (gpsworld.com)
97 points by fanf2 on Dec 4, 2019 | 29 comments
27. Selling Juicer (goddamnyouryan.com)
152 points by timschu on Dec 4, 2019 | 60 comments
28. China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations' (theguardian.com)
117 points by pseudolus on Dec 5, 2019 | 136 comments
29. Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018) (pl-enthusiast.net)
116 points by azhenley on Dec 4, 2019 | 118 comments
30. Global warming-induced migratory bird body size reduction and shape change (wiley.com)
90 points by bookofjoe on Dec 5, 2019 | 16 comments

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