872
114
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594
190
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571
283
Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears
484
434
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417
79
Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Drift, Zendesk, FreshChat
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351
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327
156
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https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/
256
32
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http://gource.io
249
221
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-women-with-super-human-vision
247
50
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https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/15/ica-asks-icann-to-block-org-private-equity-deal-in-damning-letter/
242
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https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/why-fifty-ohms
241
231
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https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/11/what-alan-kay-got-wrong-about-objects.html
205
19
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https://emmasmith.me/tinyland/
178
7
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167
58
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161
101
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https://medium.com/through-the-looking-glass/colossal-holograms-b7f86f5925bd
157
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http://chaosbook.org/
73
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https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/21/podman-and-buildah-for-docker-users/
59
33 Thomas Street
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
150
118
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https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/11/17/VC-Shill.html
144
Show HN: Autopilot written in Keras for Self Driving Cars
https://littlemountainman.github.io/2019/11/27/selfdrivingfun/
142
76
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https://www.1843magazine.com/food-drink/world-in-a-dish/how-turkish-coffee-destroyed-an-empire
141
51
Let's Encrypt certificate issuance was down
https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/5dd157fd53c977075541890a
137
31
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https://www.winehq.org/news/2019111501
135
83
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-search-algorithms-and-changes-your-results-11573823753?mod=rsswn
131
33
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http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2
125
53
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/16/army-photogrammetry-technique-makes-3d-aerial-maps-in-minutes/
122
10
Pokémon Sword/Shield causes Roku devices on the same network to crash/bootloop
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/dxc5yg/psa_pokemon_swordshield_causes_roku_devices_on/
115
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https://gizmodo.com/farewell-cortana-1839907363
113
Ask HN: What will become possible by 2025 in your field of expertise?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559680
111
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105
8
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https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-ancient-japan/
103
86
Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audiobook star
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/16/throat-hurts-brain-hurts-secret-life-of-audiobook-stars-tim-dowling
100
15
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https://www.brendonbody.com/2019/11/18/staying-focused/
99
It’s a Disservice to Urge Young People to Become Entrepreneurs?
https://www.aier.org/article/its-a-disservice-to-urge-young-people-to-become-entrepreneurs/
95
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http://verisimilitudes.net/2019-11-12
82
Douglas Hofstadter: The Shallowness of Google Translate (2018)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/
92
27
Seiko 7S26 for Novice Horologists (2012)
http://www.clockmaker.com.au/diy_seiko_7s26/
88
A Look at Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine: Half Square Foot Silicon Chip
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3010/a-look-at-cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-half-square-foot-silicon-chip/
98
The Floating-Point Guide (2010)
https://floating-point-gui.de/
3
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https://scale.com/blog/how-to-label-1m-data-points-week
85
9
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https://www.saasmag.com/basecamp-co-founder-david-heinemeier-hansson-on-the-founding-of-ethical-saas/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwpQarrDwk
14
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1901183