1831
390
Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854214
6 years ago
687
74
Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code
https://github.com/cmiscm/leonsans
620
126
Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_commands
504
380
Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome
https://www.snazz.xyz/programming/2019/08/30/firefox.html
472
203
Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement
435
302
The “mail is hard” myth
https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-30/you-should-not-run-your-mail-server-because-mail-is-hard/
399
161
What Happened in the UK Blackouts?
https://mitchoneill.com/blog/uk-blackouts-interim-report/
281
62
Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries
http://www.helenanderson.co.nz/sql-query-tweaks/
254
18
Escher-Like Spiral Tilings
http://isohedral.ca/escher-like-spiral-tilings/
248
75
What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=JRLVFn9z0Gc
240
218
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
238
162
A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/health/vaping-marijuana-ecigarettes-sickness.html
229
13
Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010)
http://www.lurklurk.org/linkers/linkers.html
216
106
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/
77
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
187
PySceneDetect – A tool for detecting scenes in movies
https://pyscenedetect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/command-line-params/
182
88
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/
53
5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers
https://twitter.com/fall_of_civ_pod/status/1168101940758306817
179
137
Windows X86-64 System Call Table
https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/
175
The Fry’s Era
https://mondaynote.com/the-frys-era-8709a7e602eb
160
185
Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/knoppix-8-6-first-wide-public-release-to-abandon-systemd/
146
59
Now Streaming on YouTube: Confessions from a Presidential Hit Squad in Gambia
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/world/africa/gambia-truth-commission-yahya-jammeh.html
144
63
NanoLog – a nanosecond scale logging system for C++
https://github.com/PlatformLab/NanoLog
129
32
The Amiga Smart File System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_File_System
115
64
What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does
https://medium.com/box-tech-blog/what-a-senior-staff-software-engineer-actually-does-f3fc140d5f33
114
92
Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (2013)
https://jasoncrawford.org/two-pizza-teams
43
Magritte: A Language for Pipe-Based Programming [pdf]
http://files.jneen.net/academic/thesis.pdf
104
177
The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-rich-cant-get-richer-forever-can-they
101
3
Anatomy of a High-Performance Convolution
https://sahnimanas.github.io/post/anatomy-of-a-high-performance-convolution/
99
Date labels on food packaging sow consumer confusion and waste
https://www.wsj.com/articles/easy-fix-to-cut-food-waste-cleaning-up-date-labels-11567157400?mod=rsswn
95
50
CHURP: Dynamic-Committee Proactive Secret Sharing
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/017.pdf
90
10
Ask HN: Where is Julian Assange, what's happening to him now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20852538
Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students