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1. I resigned from Twitter (twitter.com/jack)
1692 points by ryzvonusef on Nov 29, 2021 | 1061 comments
2. Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony (batsov.com)
1360 points by gmemstr on Nov 29, 2021 | 651 comments
3. Tiny (tinycapital.com)
588 points by omarfarooq on Nov 29, 2021 | 152 comments
4. Winamp source code leak (archive.org)
476 points by svlasov on Nov 29, 2021 | 325 comments
5. Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains (jetbrains.com)
718 points by bmc7505 on Nov 29, 2021 | 414 comments
6. Free public domain audiobooks (librivox.org)
370 points by agmm on Nov 29, 2021 | 59 comments
7. Google Chromium, sans integration with Google (ungoogled-software.github.io)
376 points by thunderbong on Nov 29, 2021 | 306 comments
8. WebGL Water (madebyevan.com)
369 points by ag8 on Nov 29, 2021 | 111 comments
9. The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
353 points by tontonius on Nov 29, 2021 | 365 comments
10. Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats (kavitareader.com)
307 points by thunderbong on Nov 29, 2021 | 86 comments
11. A $5B hoard of aluminum (mining.com)
229 points by iamdeedubs on Nov 29, 2021 | 86 comments
12. Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language (github.com/tenderlove)
230 points by tekkertje on Nov 29, 2021 | 101 comments
13. Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL (schemaverse.com)
288 points by xupybd on Nov 29, 2021 | 24 comments
14. CPython's main branch running in the browser with WebAssembly (twitter.com/ethanhs)
268 points by bobbiechen on Nov 29, 2021 | 95 comments
15. Ph.D student demonstrates a single, working laser on silicon (mcmaster.ca)
213 points by croes on Nov 29, 2021 | 59 comments
16. I wish I'd self-published sooner (alexellis.io)
216 points by alexellisuk on Nov 26, 2021 | 98 comments
17. The Entire History of Soviet Rocket Engines (everydayastronaut.com)
261 points by Jarlakxen on Nov 27, 2021 | 48 comments
18. Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags (andadinosaur.com)
229 points by tambourine_man on Nov 29, 2021 | 148 comments
19. Launch HN: Parade (YC S20) – Launch your company without hiring a designer
179 points by alexray on Nov 29, 2021 | 72 comments
20. Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics (1984) [video] (archive.org)
153 points by hypertexthero on Nov 29, 2021 | 91 comments
21. Show HN: Security Camera Lens Calculator (jvsg.com)
178 points by maxshm on Nov 29, 2021 | 49 comments
22. Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
436 points by luke2m on Nov 29, 2021 | 497 comments
23. How the ancient Romans managed their toilets (smithsonianmag.com)
153 points by sharjeelsayed on Nov 28, 2021 | 93 comments
24. The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout (slack.engineering)
132 points by usrme on Nov 29, 2021 | 47 comments
25. Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (2019) (colobot.info)
133 points by _lnwk on Nov 28, 2021 | 43 comments
26. 8880 Super Car (2010) (technicopedia.com)
144 points by archielc on Nov 29, 2021 | 58 comments
27. T-Mobile CDMA network shutting down soon (tmonews.com)
134 points by provobro on Nov 29, 2021 | 104 comments
28. How to Save a Ski Town (outsideonline.com)
127 points by auxym on Nov 28, 2021 | 288 comments
29. JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains (jetbrains.com)
400 points by dgavrilov on Nov 29, 2021 | 165 comments
30. Why I Have Settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 for AEAD (mccarty.io)
127 points by vlmutolo on Nov 29, 2021 | 85 comments

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