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1. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible (quuxplusone.github.io)
2776 points by ingve on Nov 20, 2019 | 1077 comments
2. Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) (improveyoursocialskills.com)
1291 points by lisper on Nov 20, 2019 | 409 comments
3. uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking (github.com/ublockorigin)
996 points by hokkos on Nov 20, 2019 | 581 comments
4. Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud (acolyer.org)
748 points by godelmachine on Nov 20, 2019 | 239 comments
5. Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
1460 points by newsbinator on Nov 20, 2019 | 1076 comments
6. The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components (briangrinstead.com)
587 points by joewalker on Nov 20, 2019 | 253 comments
7. Apple has locked me out of my developer account (rambo.codes)
1019 points by rwc on Nov 20, 2019 | 463 comments
8. What skills are most crucial for running small internet companies? (indiehackers.com)
354 points by ChanningAllen on Nov 20, 2019 | 77 comments
9. Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG (nature.com)
346 points by bookofjoe on Nov 20, 2019 | 197 comments
10. Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018) (rajivprab.com)
366 points by noego on Nov 20, 2019 | 119 comments
11. My years working on black programs (thespacereview.com)
441 points by pinewurst on Nov 20, 2019 | 164 comments
12. PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B (techcrunch.com)
313 points by i0exception on Nov 20, 2019 | 177 comments
13. New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork (reuters.com)
241 points by aaronbrethorst on Nov 19, 2019 | 129 comments
14. SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident (twitter.com/nasaspaceflight)
283 points by _Microft on Nov 20, 2019 | 248 comments
15. A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs (networkgenomics.com)
252 points by jedieaston on Nov 19, 2019 | 39 comments
16. Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers (shopify.com)
339 points by rom16384 on Nov 20, 2019 | 103 comments
17. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017) (tylertringas.com)
328 points by blackdogie on Nov 20, 2019 | 74 comments
18. Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director (nextgov.com)
123 points by jonbaer on Nov 20, 2019 | 111 comments
19. The Hierarchy of Cringe (aelkus.github.io)
202 points by longdefeat on Nov 20, 2019 | 92 comments
20. Lockout-Tagout (wikipedia.org)
136 points by restlessdesign on Nov 20, 2019 | 111 comments
21. The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/ (2016) (possessivesuffix.tumblr.com)
108 points by vilhelm_s on Nov 20, 2019 | 150 comments
22. How the Great Pyramid at Giza Looked in 2560 BCE (kottke.org)
183 points by mpweiher on Nov 20, 2019 | 118 comments
23. How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email (easydns.com)
110 points by StuntPope on Nov 20, 2019 | 30 comments
24. The 40% Keyboard (tbf-rnd.life)
214 points by oftenwrong on Nov 20, 2019 | 328 comments
25. Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Solution to Black Hole Information Paradox (quantamagazine.org)
124 points by tambourine_man on Nov 20, 2019 | 40 comments
26. Show HN: EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database (easydb.io)
158 points by justjake on Nov 20, 2019 | 57 comments
27. An interview on what makes Postgres unique: extensions (craigkerstiens.com)
96 points by hgimenez on Nov 20, 2019 | 14 comments
28. China (drewdevault.com)
847 points by kick on Nov 20, 2019 | 455 comments
29. Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust (yeslogic.com)
125 points by wezm on Nov 20, 2019 | 16 comments
30. How to Hide a Billion Dollars (economist.com)
163 points by known on Nov 20, 2019 | 92 comments

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