top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-09-01

Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854214

7 years ago

1831 upvotes – 390 comments

Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

https://github.com/cmiscm/leonsans

7 years ago

★ 10.1k JavaScript MIT
687 upvotes – 74 comments

Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_commands

7 years ago

620 upvotes – 126 comments

Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome

https://www.snazz.xyz/programming/2019/08/30/firefox.html

7 years ago

504 upvotes – 380 comments

Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement

7 years ago

472 upvotes – 203 comments

The “mail is hard” myth

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/

7 years ago

435 upvotes – 302 comments

What Happened in the UK Blackouts?

https://mitchoneill.com/blog/uk-blackouts-interim-report/

7 years ago

399 upvotes – 161 comments

Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries

http://www.helenanderson.co.nz/sql-query-tweaks/

7 years ago

281 upvotes – 62 comments

Escher-Like Spiral Tilings

http://isohedral.ca/escher-like-spiral-tilings/

7 years ago

254 upvotes – 18 comments

What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=JRLVFn9z0Gc

7 years ago

248 upvotes – 75 comments
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