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1.		I resigned from Twitter (twitter.com/jack)
		1692 points by ryzvonusef on Nov 29, 2021 \| 1061 comments
2.		Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony (batsov.com)
		1360 points by gmemstr on Nov 29, 2021 \| 651 comments
3.		Tiny (tinycapital.com)
		588 points by omarfarooq on Nov 29, 2021 \| 152 comments
4.		Winamp source code leak (archive.org)
		476 points by svlasov on Nov 29, 2021 \| 325 comments
5.		Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains (jetbrains.com)
		718 points by bmc7505 on Nov 29, 2021 \| 414 comments
6.		Free public domain audiobooks (librivox.org)
		370 points by agmm on Nov 29, 2021 \| 59 comments
7.		Google Chromium, sans integration with Google (ungoogled-software.github.io)
		376 points by thunderbong on Nov 29, 2021 \| 306 comments
8.		WebGL Water (madebyevan.com)
		369 points by ag8 on Nov 29, 2021 \| 111 comments
9.		The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		353 points by tontonius on Nov 29, 2021 \| 365 comments
10.		Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats (kavitareader.com)
		307 points by thunderbong on Nov 29, 2021 \| 86 comments
11.		A $5B hoard of aluminum (mining.com)
		229 points by iamdeedubs on Nov 29, 2021 \| 86 comments
12.		Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language (github.com/tenderlove)
		230 points by tekkertje on Nov 29, 2021 \| 101 comments
13.		Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL (schemaverse.com)
		288 points by xupybd on Nov 29, 2021 \| 24 comments
14.		CPython's main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly (twitter.com/ethanhs)
		268 points by bobbiechen on Nov 29, 2021 \| 95 comments
15.		Ph.D student demonstrates a single, working laser on silicon (mcmaster.ca)
		213 points by croes on Nov 29, 2021 \| 59 comments
16.		I wish I'd self-published sooner (alexellis.io)
		216 points by alexellisuk on Nov 26, 2021 \| 98 comments
17.		The Entire History of Soviet Rocket Engines (everydayastronaut.com)
		261 points by Jarlakxen on Nov 27, 2021 \| 48 comments
18.		Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags (andadinosaur.com)
		229 points by tambourine_man on Nov 29, 2021 \| 148 comments
19.		Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer
		179 points by alexray on Nov 29, 2021 \| 72 comments
20.		Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics (1984) [video] (archive.org)
		153 points by hypertexthero on Nov 29, 2021 \| 91 comments
21.		Show HN: Security Camera Lens Calculator (jvsg.com)
		178 points by maxshm on Nov 29, 2021 \| 49 comments
22.		Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
		436 points by luke2m on Nov 29, 2021 \| 497 comments
23.		How the ancient Romans managed their toilets (smithsonianmag.com)
		153 points by sharjeelsayed on Nov 28, 2021 \| 93 comments
24.		The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout (slack.engineering)
		132 points by usrme on Nov 29, 2021 \| 47 comments
25.		Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (2019) (colobot.info)
		133 points by _lnwk on Nov 28, 2021 \| 43 comments
26.		8880 Super Car (2010) (technicopedia.com)
		144 points by archielc on Nov 29, 2021 \| 58 comments
27.		T-Mobile CDMA network shutting down soon (tmonews.com)
		134 points by provobro on Nov 29, 2021 \| 104 comments
28.		How to Save a Ski Town (outsideonline.com)
		127 points by auxym on Nov 28, 2021 \| 288 comments
29.		JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains (jetbrains.com)
		400 points by dgavrilov on Nov 29, 2021 \| 165 comments
30.		Why I Have Settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 for AEAD (mccarty.io)
		127 points by vlmutolo on Nov 29, 2021 \| 85 comments
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