top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-08-01

Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts

https://uglygerry.com/

7 years ago

750 upvotes – 190 comments

Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers

https://armin.dev/blog/2019/08/supporting-browser-extension-developers/

7 years ago

563 upvotes – 190 comments

Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583581

7 years ago

480 upvotes – 199 comments

Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf]

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4229#comment-1815290

7 years ago

462 upvotes – 98 comments

iTerm2 3.3

https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_3_0.changelog

7 years ago

439 upvotes – 183 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584311

7 years ago

370 upvotes – 844 comments

Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html

7 years ago

361 upvotes – 107 comments

35 Over 35

https://theamericanscholar.org/35-over-35/

7 years ago

358 upvotes – 118 comments

The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)

https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/12400/the-lost-art-of-lacing-cable

7 years ago

340 upvotes – 153 comments

Every Noise at Once

http://everynoise.com/

7 years ago

333 upvotes – 82 comments

Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game

https://diablo.rivsoft.net/

7 years ago

297 upvotes – 125 comments

Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/1/20749831/alphabet-google-apple-cash-reserves-richest-company

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 224 comments

John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)

http://sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on-parallel-implementations/

7 years ago

271 upvotes – 44 comments

Composing better emails

https://iridakos.com/how-to/2019/06/26/composing-better-emails.html

7 years ago

263 upvotes – 157 comments

Norweigan oil fund

https://www.nbim.no/en/

7 years ago

254 upvotes – 320 comments

High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190729094538.htm

7 years ago

253 upvotes – 174 comments

PartiQL: One query language for all your data

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-partiql-one-query-language-for-all-your-data/

7 years ago

241 upvotes – 84 comments

A Readable Specification of TLS 1.3

https://davidwong.fr/tls13/

7 years ago

204 upvotes – 25 comments

Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49185007

7 years ago

200 upvotes – 256 comments

California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agriculture-farmlands-solar-power-20190703-story.html

7 years ago

199 upvotes – 149 comments
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