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1. Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet (blog.google)
1204 points by minimaxir on Dec 3, 2019 | 587 comments
2. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down (vice.com)
908 points by legatus on Dec 3, 2019 | 257 comments
3. The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor (twitter.com/jedisct1)
783 points by agwa on Dec 3, 2019 | 221 comments
4. The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation (blogs.harvard.edu)
750 points by metasj on Dec 3, 2019 | 176 comments
5. Amazon CodeGuru – Preview (amazon.com)
429 points by Sheepzez on Dec 3, 2019 | 203 comments
6. BPF: A New Type of Software (brendangregg.com)
603 points by andrenth on Dec 3, 2019 | 185 comments
7. A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016) (unicodepowersymbol.com)
488 points by goranmoomin on Dec 3, 2019 | 186 comments
8. A Guide to Distributed Teams (increment.com)
227 points by tate on Dec 3, 2019 | 24 comments
9. FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc (reuters.com)
249 points by SolaceQuantum on Dec 3, 2019 | 129 comments
10. Big Pile of Vim-Like (reversed.top)
250 points by se7entime on Dec 3, 2019 | 129 comments
11. Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service (amazon.com)
195 points by garysieling on Dec 3, 2019 | 55 comments
12. Help me ask why you didn't just (plover.com)
315 points by psanford on Dec 1, 2019 | 343 comments
13. How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers (dylanpaulus.com)
395 points by ganderzz on Dec 3, 2019 | 233 comments
14. So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014) (seriouseats.com)
185 points by Tomte on Dec 3, 2019 | 286 comments
15. We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring (interviewing.io)
327 points by leeny on Dec 3, 2019 | 638 comments
16. The Principles of Versioning in Go (swtch.com)
174 points by crawshaw on Dec 3, 2019 | 87 comments
17. Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you
206 points by jijosunny on Dec 3, 2019 | 179 comments
18. Corporate debt nears a record $10T, and borrowing binge poses new risks (washingtonpost.com)
190 points by pseudolus on Nov 30, 2019 | 182 comments
19. The Factorization of RSA-240 (nodak.edu)
131 points by hsnewman on Dec 3, 2019 | 36 comments
20. The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes (onezero.medium.com)
158 points by Anon84 on Dec 3, 2019 | 66 comments
21. WeWork’s Escape Plan Is Buried in the Books at Its Tokyo Office (bloomberg.com)
124 points by jc_811 on Dec 2, 2019 | 31 comments
22. Security in Plan 9 (2002) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
111 points by kick on Dec 3, 2019 | 12 comments
23. Unicode Is Awesome (wisdom.engineering)
147 points by jagracey on Dec 2, 2019 | 152 comments
24. Ask HN: What are successful projects that started as prototyped hypotheses?
114 points by vlaaad on Dec 2, 2019 | 43 comments
25. Simple Dynamic Strings library for C, compatible with null-terminated strings (github.com/antirez)
107 points by goranmoomin on Dec 3, 2019 | 83 comments
26. Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding (zdnet.com)
274 points by TanakaTarou on Dec 2, 2019 | 194 comments
27. AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles (amazon.com)
124 points by jeffbarr on Dec 3, 2019 | 61 comments
28. My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months (medium.com/joshahowarth)
419 points by jhow15 on Dec 3, 2019 | 97 comments
29. The Battlefield After the Battle (acoup.blog)
105 points by apsec112 on Dec 2, 2019 | 18 comments
30. "I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat." (arstechnica.com)
145 points by heshiebee on Dec 2, 2019 | 44 comments

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