top 10 hacker news stories for 2015-08-30

OS X Command Line Utilities

http://www.mitchchn.me/2014/os-x-terminal/?x

11 years ago

517 upvotes – 202 comments

Oliver Sacks has died

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

11 years ago

495 upvotes – 37 comments

BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bmw-all-models-electric-within-decade-20150629-00597

11 years ago

332 upvotes – 292 comments

How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting/402205/?single_page=true

11 years ago

228 upvotes – 125 comments

The man who mistook his wife for a hat (1983)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v05/n09/oliver-sacks/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 26 comments

Ask HN: How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143485

11 years ago

188 upvotes – 86 comments

Examining the core memory module inside a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

http://www.righto.com/2015/08/examining-core-memory-module-inside.html

11 years ago

122 upvotes – 24 comments

How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycling-infrastructure/

11 years ago

120 upvotes – 74 comments

How widely used are security-based HTTP response headers?

https://scotthelme.co.uk/how-widely-used-are-security-based-http-response-headers/

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 34 comments

Frederick Forsyth reveals MI6 spying past

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34101822

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments
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