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1.
Text Editing Hates You Too (lord.io)
875 points by panic on Oct 29, 2019 | 282 comments
2.
WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world (reuters.com)
534 points by adventured on Oct 29, 2019 | 262 comments
3.
The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (2012) (jerrydallal.com)
502 points by Anon84 on Oct 28, 2019 | 36 comments
4.
Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com (gitlab.com/gitlab-org)
602 points by tyteen4a03 on Oct 29, 2019 | 271 comments
5.
How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game (vox.com)
380 points by hhs on Oct 29, 2019 | 167 comments
6.
Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain (cfenollosa.com)
361 points by carlesfe on Oct 29, 2019 | 225 comments
7.
Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet (rietta.com)
599 points by grepsedawk on Oct 29, 2019 | 296 comments
8.
We're Incentivizing Bad Science (scientificamerican.com)
341 points by slowhand09 on Oct 29, 2019 | 181 comments
9.
Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours (alexdanco.com)
344 points by yankcrime on Oct 29, 2019 | 210 comments
10.
Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language (junglecoder.com)
209 points by charlieflowers on Oct 29, 2019 | 166 comments
11.
35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video] (youtube.com)
230 points by modinfo on Oct 29, 2019 | 46 comments
12.
Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track (anandtech.com)
208 points by frutiger on Oct 29, 2019 | 177 comments
13.
Ask HN: I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing?
281 points by keithwhor on Oct 28, 2019 | 57 comments
14.
A GUI framework for C# console applications (github.com/tomaszrewak)
228 points by otherdave on Oct 29, 2019 | 62 comments
15.
Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects (plos.org)
203 points by rbanffy on Oct 29, 2019 | 96 comments
16.
Rock climbing and the economics of innovation (softmachines.org)
195 points by evilsimon on Oct 29, 2019 | 91 comments
17.
Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420 (fastcompany.com)
177 points by vontzy on Oct 29, 2019 | 30 comments
18.
Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
194 points by dochtman on Oct 29, 2019 | 166 comments
19.
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles (thenextweb.com)
307 points by p15suvanshb on Oct 29, 2019 | 232 comments
20.
'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows (abc.net.au)
195 points by elorant on Oct 29, 2019 | 62 comments
21.
Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down (dkthehuman.com)
143 points by namuorg on Oct 29, 2019 | 45 comments
22.
Million Song Dataset (millionsongdataset.com)
196 points by commons-tragedy on Oct 29, 2019 | 39 comments
23.
New 'unremovable' xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices (zdnet.com)
176 points by tzm on Oct 29, 2019 | 107 comments
24.
Key Change (counter-strike.net)
183 points by janvdberg on Oct 29, 2019 | 145 comments
25.
Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook (swi-prolog.org)
147 points by xfer on Oct 29, 2019 | 53 comments
26.
Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode (sarunw.com)
122 points by sarunw on Oct 28, 2019 | 65 comments
27.
Driverless cars are stuck in a jam (economist.com)
152 points by scottlocklin on Oct 29, 2019 | 534 comments
28.
Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories (mercurial-scm.org)
141 points by luu on Oct 29, 2019 | 170 comments
29.
DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface (duckduckgo.com)
210 points by LucasLarson on Oct 29, 2019 | 80 comments
30.
A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend (arstechnica.com)
179 points by furcyd on Oct 29, 2019 | 133 comments

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