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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
2760 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Save .org
2279 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
2050 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
16-inch MacBook Pro
1833 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Tesla Cybertruck
1734 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
1666 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Firefox Replay
1590 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
1538 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
1527 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
1457 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Build Your Own React
1454 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
1416 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
1359 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface
1296 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
1276 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
1216 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
1135 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Async-await on stable Rust
1096 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
1078 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
The cognitive costs of air pollution
1009 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Apple has locked me out of my developer account
1008 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Brave launches 1.0
997 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
989 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
986 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Interactive Linear Algebra
967 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
951 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
945 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
911 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]
893 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Lessons learned building an ML trading system
891 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
889 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
885 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
883 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices
871 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Build Your Own X
866 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
860 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Open-Source Home Automation
848 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
827 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia
827 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
802 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
My name causes an issue with any booking
797 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
790 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
When will Google shut down Stadia?
789 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
China
777 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'
774 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
PostgREST
771 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
764 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)
759 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
The Real Class War
757 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
732 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
721 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
715 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
706 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Stripe CLI
698 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Fibery – yet another collaboration tool
677 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm
665 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance
663 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
The Google Squeeze
654 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes
651 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
643 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
642 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
640 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
635 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
635 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
More Intel speculative execution vulnerabilities
634 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Parse, Don’t Validate
627 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .org heist
627 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
626 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam
624 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
623 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques
622 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players
622 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard
614 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound
611 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD
598 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
The Fantasy of Opting Out
594 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware
593 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up
581 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components
580 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
How Containers Work: Overlayfs
567 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Half-Life: Alyx
566 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx
565 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind
565 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Beating C with one line of Brainfuck
563 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’
563 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin
563 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
557 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
546 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
How does a video codec work?
546 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
525 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
519 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off
518 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming
518 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Eigenvectors from eigenvalues
517 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
514 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
513 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Microsoft Japan’s 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity
509 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
GitHub Archive Program
507 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo
505 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
505 points • comment • nov 15, 2019