The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2019

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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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Save .org savedotorg.org · jaden · 23 Nov 2019

2.3k pts 342 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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16-inch MacBook Pro apple.com · 0x4542 · 13 Nov 2019

1.8k pts 1.7k comments

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Tesla Cybertruck tesla.com · sahin · 22 Nov 2019

1.8k pts 1.9k comments

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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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Firefox Replay firefox-replay.com · nachtigall · 28 Nov 2019

1.6k pts 286 comments

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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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Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank twitter.com · andruby · 18 Nov 2019

1.5k pts 468 comments

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Build Your Own React pomb.us · pomber · 14 Nov 2019

1.5k pts 108 comments

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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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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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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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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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Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) improveyoursocialskills.com · lisper · 20 Nov 2019

1.3k pts 409 comments

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Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA newatlas.com · elorant · 26 Nov 2019

1.2k pts 466 comments

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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius paulgraham.com · pilingual · 23 Nov 2019

1.2k pts 477 comments

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Async-await on stable Rust blog.rust-lang.org · pietroalbini · 7 Nov 2019

1.1k pts 380 comments

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Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website github.com · dan1234 · 12 Nov 2019

1.1k pts 192 comments

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The cognitive costs of air pollution patrickcollison.com · jseliger · 18 Nov 2019

1k pts 285 comments

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Apple has locked me out of my developer account rambo.codes · rwc · 20 Nov 2019

1k pts 463 comments

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Brave launches 1.0 brave.com · etr71115 · 13 Nov 2019

1k pts 630 comments

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Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results babuskov · 24 Nov 2019

1k pts 346 comments

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uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking github.com · hokkos · 20 Nov 2019

996 pts 581 comments

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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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Interactive Linear Algebra textbooks.math.gatech.edu · kondor · 25 Nov 2019

981 pts 49 comments

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Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B cnbc.com · chdaniel · 1 Nov 2019

946 pts 742 comments

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Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet marko.fyi · markosaric · 10 Nov 2019

927 pts 359 comments

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The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790 wsj.com · simonebrunozzi · 9 Nov 2019

914 pts 413 comments

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Lessons learned building an ML trading system tradientblog.com · traK6Dcm · 27 Nov 2019

914 pts 151 comments

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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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How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf] cs.princeton.edu · longdefeat · 19 Nov 2019

907 pts 344 comments

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I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score nytimes.com · pseudolus · 4 Nov 2019

884 pts 325 comments

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PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub vice.com · protomyth · 14 Nov 2019

873 pts 744 comments

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Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices blog.benjojo.co.uk · signa11 · 17 Nov 2019

872 pts 114 comments

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Open-Source Home Automation home-assistant.io · neya · 29 Nov 2019

869 pts 231 comments

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Build Your Own X github.com · hakanderyal · 2 Nov 2019

867 pts 64 comments

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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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China drewdevault.com · kick · 20 Nov 2019

847 pts 455 comments

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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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When will Google shut down Stadia? stadiacountdown.com · naeemnur · 21 Nov 2019

824 pts 638 comments

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My name causes an issue with any booking travel.stackexchange.com · signa11 · 9 Nov 2019

812 pts 369 comments

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Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation bbc.com · schappim · 19 Nov 2019

803 pts 721 comments

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Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90% netmarketshare.com · gator-io · 1 Nov 2019

802 pts 295 comments

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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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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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The Real Class War americanaffairsjournal.org · arcanus · 26 Nov 2019

773 pts 608 comments

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PostgREST postgrest.org · deepersprout · 3 Nov 2019

771 pts 237 comments

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Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014) 0a.io · archibaldJ · 30 Nov 2019

770 pts 67 comments

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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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Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival zdnet.com · cpeterso · 15 Nov 2019

741 pts 566 comments

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Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors benkuhn.net · luu · 28 Nov 2019

740 pts 306 comments

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Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia washingtonpost.com · grzm · 6 Nov 2019

712 pts 323 comments

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Stripe CLI stripe.com · askytb · 5 Nov 2019

706 pts 144 comments

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Fibery – yet another collaboration tool fibery.io · pookeh · 26 Nov 2019

705 pts 145 comments

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Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance github.com · Cantaro86 · 22 Nov 2019

690 pts 60 comments

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Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like? throwaway1m · 27 Nov 2019

670 pts 400 comments

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The Google Squeeze stratechery.com · zwieback · 12 Nov 2019

665 pts 362 comments

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Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? reddit.com · monort · 2 Nov 2019

665 pts 322 comments

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Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm theguardian.com · lxm · 4 Nov 2019

665 pts 308 comments