The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2019
We track 1,237 stories from November 2019, averaging 264 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 72 stories. Together they drew 165,369 comments, 134 per story on average.
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Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
quuxplusone.github.io · ingve · 20 Nov 2019
2.8k pts
1.1k comments
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Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
aclu.org · coloneltcb · 12 Nov 2019
2.1k pts
580 comments
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6
We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
blog.cloudflare.com · eastdakota · 4 Nov 2019
1.7k pts
246 comments
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8
John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
facebook.com · jbredeche · 13 Nov 2019
1.6k pts
889 comments
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9
Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
twitter.com · andruby · 18 Nov 2019
1.5k pts
468 comments
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11
Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
newsbinator · 20 Nov 2019
1.5k pts
1.1k comments
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12
Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
github.com · dsr12 · 3 Nov 2019
1.5k pts
175 comments
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13
Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
dataviper.io · bencollier49 · 22 Nov 2019
1.4k pts
419 comments
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14
1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface
k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp · hongzi · 21 Nov 2019
1.3k pts
128 comments
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15
Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
improveyoursocialskills.com · lisper · 20 Nov 2019
1.3k pts
409 comments
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16
Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
newatlas.com · elorant · 26 Nov 2019
1.2k pts
466 comments
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17
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
paulgraham.com · pilingual · 23 Nov 2019
1.2k pts
477 comments
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18
Async-await on stable Rust
blog.rust-lang.org · pietroalbini · 7 Nov 2019
1.1k pts
380 comments
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19
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
github.com · dan1234 · 12 Nov 2019
1.1k pts
192 comments
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20
The cognitive costs of air pollution
patrickcollison.com · jseliger · 18 Nov 2019
1k pts
285 comments
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21
Apple has locked me out of my developer account
rambo.codes · rwc · 20 Nov 2019
1k pts
463 comments
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23
Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
babuskov · 24 Nov 2019
1k pts
346 comments
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24
uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
github.com · hokkos · 20 Nov 2019
996 pts
581 comments
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25
ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
keypointsabout.org · dano · 29 Nov 2019
994 pts
247 comments
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26
Interactive Linear Algebra
textbooks.math.gatech.edu · kondor · 25 Nov 2019
981 pts
49 comments
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28
Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
marko.fyi · markosaric · 10 Nov 2019
927 pts
359 comments
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29
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
wsj.com · simonebrunozzi · 9 Nov 2019
914 pts
413 comments
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30
Lessons learned building an ML trading system
tradientblog.com · traK6Dcm · 27 Nov 2019
914 pts
151 comments
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31
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
google.github.io · lukeplato · 13 Nov 2019
911 pts
319 comments
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32
How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]
cs.princeton.edu · longdefeat · 19 Nov 2019
907 pts
344 comments
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33
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
nytimes.com · pseudolus · 4 Nov 2019
884 pts
325 comments
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34
PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
vice.com · protomyth · 14 Nov 2019
873 pts
744 comments
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35
Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices
blog.benjojo.co.uk · signa11 · 17 Nov 2019
872 pts
114 comments
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36
Open-Source Home Automation
home-assistant.io · neya · 29 Nov 2019
869 pts
231 comments
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38
System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server
layerci.com · colinchartier · 8 Nov 2019
852 pts
158 comments
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40
Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia
gitlab.com · capableweb · 3 Nov 2019
828 pts
518 comments
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41
When will Google shut down Stadia?
stadiacountdown.com · naeemnur · 21 Nov 2019
824 pts
638 comments
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42
My name causes an issue with any booking
travel.stackexchange.com · signa11 · 9 Nov 2019
812 pts
369 comments
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43
Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
bbc.com · schappim · 19 Nov 2019
803 pts
721 comments
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44
Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
netmarketshare.com · gator-io · 1 Nov 2019
802 pts
295 comments
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45
Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'
blog.nuclino.com · superhumanuser · 11 Nov 2019
798 pts
386 comments
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46
Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
techrepublic.com · DarkCrusader2 · 1 Nov 2019
783 pts
508 comments
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47
The Real Class War
americanaffairsjournal.org · arcanus · 26 Nov 2019
773 pts
608 comments
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49
Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)
0a.io · archibaldJ · 30 Nov 2019
770 pts
67 comments
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50
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
blog.acolyer.org · godelmachine · 20 Nov 2019
748 pts
239 comments
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51
Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
zdnet.com · cpeterso · 15 Nov 2019
741 pts
566 comments
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52
Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors
benkuhn.net · luu · 28 Nov 2019
740 pts
306 comments
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53
Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia
washingtonpost.com · grzm · 6 Nov 2019
712 pts
323 comments
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55
Fibery – yet another collaboration tool
fibery.io · pookeh · 26 Nov 2019
705 pts
145 comments
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56
Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance
github.com · Cantaro86 · 22 Nov 2019
690 pts
60 comments
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57
Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
throwaway1m · 27 Nov 2019
670 pts
400 comments
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59
Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
reddit.com · monort · 2 Nov 2019
665 pts
322 comments
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60
Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm
theguardian.com · lxm · 4 Nov 2019
665 pts
308 comments
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