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1. Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code (github.com/cmiscm)
687 points by BafS on Sept 1, 2019 | 74 comments
2. Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
1831 points by ramphastidae on Sept 1, 2019 | 390 comments
3. Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc' (wikipedia.org)
620 points by rspivak on Sept 1, 2019 | 126 comments
4. I find journaling indispensable (jborichevskiy.com)
467 points by jborichevskiy on Aug 31, 2019 | 171 comments
5. Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome (snazz.xyz)
504 points by adele11 on Sept 1, 2019 | 380 comments
6. What Happened in the UK Blackouts? (mitchoneill.com)
399 points by mitchoneill1 on Sept 1, 2019 | 161 comments
7. The “mail is hard” myth (poolp.org)
435 points by tambourine_man on Sept 1, 2019 | 302 comments
8. Windows X86-64 System Call Table (vexillium.org)
179 points by badrabbit on Sept 1, 2019 | 137 comments
9. Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students (reuters.com)
240 points by HNLurker2 on Sept 1, 2019 | 218 comments
10. A New Algorithm for Controlled Randomness (probablydance.com)
89 points by ingve on Aug 29, 2019 | 49 comments
11. PySceneDetect – A tool for detecting scenes in movies (pyscenedetect.readthedocs.io)
187 points by josefslerka on Sept 1, 2019 | 62 comments
12. Lumen: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly (github.com/lumen)
218 points by seeekr on Aug 30, 2019 | 73 comments
13. NanoLog – a nanosecond scale logging system for C++ (github.com/platformlab)
144 points by tzm on Sept 1, 2019 | 63 comments
14. NetNewsWire 5.0 – Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac (thesweetsetup.com)
182 points by BooneJS on Sept 1, 2019 | 88 comments
15. The Amiga Smart File System (wikipedia.org)
129 points by pinche2 on Sept 1, 2019 | 32 comments
16. Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014) (publicintegrity.org)
155 points by adenverd on Aug 31, 2019 | 121 comments
17. Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events (vector.dev)
145 points by weitzj on Aug 31, 2019 | 17 comments
18. Date labels on food packaging sow consumer confusion and waste (wsj.com)
99 points by undefined1 on Sept 1, 2019 | 101 comments
19. What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video] (youtube.com)
248 points by Browun on Sept 1, 2019 | 75 comments
20. Magritte: A Language for Pipe-Based Programming [pdf] (jneen.net)
114 points by self on Sept 1, 2019 | 43 comments
21. The Fry’s Era (mondaynote.com)
175 points by mpweiher on Sept 1, 2019 | 162 comments
22. A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ (nytimes.com)
238 points by mhb on Sept 1, 2019 | 162 comments
23. CHURP: Dynamic-Committee Proactive Secret Sharing (iacr.org)
95 points by momentmaker on Sept 1, 2019 | 50 comments
24. Crowdsourced archaeology shows human influence on Earth for thousands of years (phys.org)
47 points by dnetesn on Aug 30, 2019
25. Spatial Interfaces (johnpalmer.site)
83 points by streulpita on Aug 30, 2019 | 27 comments
26. Two illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle (bbc.com)
69 points by hhs on Aug 30, 2019 | 31 comments
27. Claude: Common Lisp Library Audience Expansion Toolkit (2014) [pdf] (nicklevine.org)
51 points by oumua_don17 on Aug 31, 2019 | 5 comments
28. [dupe] Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note (bankofengland.co.uk)
472 points by SimplyUseless on Sept 1, 2019 | 203 comments
29. Wag's new TOS charges users $1000 for going off Wag (reddit.com)
216 points by moonka on Sept 1, 2019 | 106 comments
30. Spaceflight from the Backyard (simpsite.nl)
81 points by weinzierl on Sept 1, 2019 | 18 comments

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