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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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