top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-09-01

Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

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

6 years ago

1831 upvotes – 390 comments

Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

https://github.com/cmiscm/leonsans

6 years ago

687 upvotes – 74 comments

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

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

6 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

6 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

6 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/

6 years ago

435 upvotes – 302 comments

What Happened in the UK Blackouts?

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

6 years ago

399 upvotes – 161 comments

Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries

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

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 62 comments

Escher-Like Spiral Tilings

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

6 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

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 75 comments

Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-mental-undergrads/depression-anxiety-rising-among-u-s-college-students-idUKKCN1VJ25Z

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 218 comments

A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/health/vaping-marijuana-ecigarettes-sickness.html

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 162 comments

Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010)

http://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 13 comments

Wag's new TOS charges users $1000 for going off Wag

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladviceofftopic/comments/cwe79d/does_this_seem_like_wag_is_trying_to_get_around/

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 106 comments

Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-01/tesla-batteries-are-keeping-zimbabwe-s-economy-running

6 years ago

203 upvotes – 77 comments

PySceneDetect – A tool for detecting scenes in movies

https://pyscenedetect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/command-line-params/

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 62 comments

NetNewsWire 5.0 – Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac

https://thesweetsetup.com/netnewswire-5-0-relaunches-as-an-open-source-rss-reader-for-the-mac/

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 88 comments

5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers

https://twitter.com/fall_of_civ_pod/status/1168101940758306817

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 53 comments

Windows X86-64 System Call Table

https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 137 comments

The Fry’s Era

https://mondaynote.com/the-frys-era-8709a7e602eb

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 162 comments
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