top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-11-20

Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/11/20/slack-rich-text-box/

6 years ago

2776 upvotes – 1077 comments

Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581361

6 years ago

1460 upvotes – 1076 comments

Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

https://www.improveyoursocialskills.com/basic-social-skills-guide

6 years ago

1291 upvotes – 409 comments

Apple has locked me out of my developer account

https://rambo.codes/personal/2019/11/20/apple-has-locked-me-out-of-my-developer-account.html

6 years ago

1019 upvotes – 463 comments

uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780

6 years ago

★ 1.1k
996 upvotes – 581 comments

China

https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/20/China.html

6 years ago

847 upvotes – 455 comments

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/20/local-first-software/

6 years ago

748 upvotes – 239 comments

The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components

https://briangrinstead.com/blog/firefox-webcomponents/

6 years ago

587 upvotes – 253 comments

My years working on black programs

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3833/1

6 years ago

441 upvotes – 164 comments

Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)

https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/

6 years ago

366 upvotes – 119 comments

What skills are most crucial for running small internet companies?

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/what-skills-do-founders-find-most-crucial-for-running-their-businesses-e95d99d9ff

6 years ago

354 upvotes – 77 comments

Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51974-4

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 197 comments

Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/successfully-merging-work-1000-developers

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 103 comments

Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)

https://tylertringas.com/selling-my-bootstrapped-saas-business/

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 74 comments

PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/20/paypal-to-acquire-shopping-and-rewards-platform-honey-for-4-billion/

6 years ago

313 upvotes – 177 comments

China Tortured Me over Hong Kong, Says Former British Consulate Employee

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/11/20/world/asia/20reuters-hongkong-protests-britain.html

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 38 comments

The Typography of Blade Runner (2016)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 114 comments

SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1197265917589303296

6 years ago

283 upvotes – 248 comments

Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security firm for US intelligence

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2019/11/18/news/a_massive_scandal_how_assange_his_doctors_lawyers_and_visitors_were_all_spied_on_for_the_u_s_-241314527

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 131 comments

Facebook: We don’t need your consent

https://noyb.eu/facebook-we-dont-need-your-consent/

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 132 comments

A 70-year-old's secret to a full and happy life

https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/a-70yos-secret-to-a-full-and-happy-life

6 years ago

219 upvotes – 168 comments

The 40% Keyboard

http://tbf-rnd.life/blog/2019/09/18/the-40-keyboard/

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 328 comments

The Hierarchy of Cringe

https://aelkus.github.io/culture/2019/10/21/hierarchy-of-cringe

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 92 comments

How the Great Pyramid at Giza Looked in 2560 BCE

https://kottke.org/19/11/how-the-great-pyramid-at-giza-looked-in-2560-bce

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 118 comments

Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio

https://www.twilio.com/blog/build-a-whatsapp-chatbot-with-python-flask-and-twilio

6 years ago

183 upvotes – 62 comments

The Service Mesh: What Engineers Need to Know

https://servicemesh.io/

6 years ago

172 upvotes – 64 comments

How to Hide a Billion Dollars

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/10/how-to-hide-a-billion-dollars

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 92 comments

ksqlDB: Event streaming database for stream processing applications

https://ksqldb.io/

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 18 comments

How to Begin a Novel

https://aiweirdness.com/post/189170306297/how-to-begin-a-novel

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 46 comments

Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08265

6 years ago

161 upvotes – 37 comments

An interview with Barbara Liskov

https://www.quantamagazine.org/barbara-liskov-is-the-architect-of-modern-algorithms-20191120/

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 58 comments

Show HN: EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database

https://easydb.io/

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 57 comments

Senators ask if Facebook 'really' lets users opt out of location tracking

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/senators-ask-if-facebook-really-lets-users-opt-out-of-location-tracking/

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 36 comments

System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/11/20/system76-will-start-designing-and-building-its-own-linux-laptops-beginning-january-2020/#57535bfc3e16

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 80 comments

Beating C with 70 lines of Go

https://ajeetdsouza.github.io/blog/posts/beating-c-with-70-lines-of-go/

6 years ago

142 upvotes – 97 comments

Lockout-Tagout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout-tagout

6 years ago

136 upvotes – 111 comments

Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05289

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 24 comments

Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust

https://yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-rust-font-shaping-engine.html

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 16 comments

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Solution to Black Hole Information Paradox

https://www.quantamagazine.org/hologram-within-a-hologram-hints-at-solution-to-black-hole-information-paradox-20191119/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 40 comments

Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/11/dont-rush-quantum-proof-encryption-warns-nsa-research-director/161217/

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 111 comments

Racket v7.5

https://download.racket-lang.org/v7.5.html

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 23 comments

Rapidly cooling trauma victims to buy more time for surgery

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 35 comments

Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM [video]

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ComputerThingsTheyDidntTeachYouInSchool2CodePagesCharacterEncodingUnicodeUTF8AndTheBOM.aspx

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 37 comments

How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email

https://easydns.com/blog/2019/11/20/how-cybercriminals-profit-by-tapping-your-email/

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 30 comments

A History of APL in Fifty Functions (2016)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 23 comments

The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/ (2016)

https://possessivesuffix.tumblr.com/post/154745464918/lets-talk-sj

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 150 comments

Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG-116-JU05-20190716-SD036.pdf

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 122 comments
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