| 1. | | So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? (ironicsans.com) |
| 289 points by AlexMuir on Jan 20, 2013 | 177 comments |
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| 2. | | Microsoft hires designer behind "The Next Microsoft", Andrew Kim (minimallyminimal.com) |
| 233 points by dbcooper on Jan 20, 2013 | 83 comments |
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| 3. | | Leiningen version 2.0.0 released (github.com/technomancy) |
| 242 points by llambda on Jan 20, 2013 | 44 comments |
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| 4. | | Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms (parsleyjs.org) |
| 235 points by guillaumepotier on Jan 20, 2013 | 78 comments |
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| 5. | | Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the “marvelously different” (danwin.com) |
| 202 points by danso on Jan 20, 2013 | 63 comments |
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| 6. | | Securing Ubuntu (joshrendek.com) |
| 177 points by namidark on Jan 20, 2013 | 93 comments |
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| 7. | | The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang (2008) (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.de) |
| 170 points by tobiasbischoff on Jan 20, 2013 | 34 comments |
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| 8. | | Vint Cerf appointed to National Science Board by President Obama (cccblog.org) |
| 169 points by ohjeez on Jan 20, 2013 | 19 comments |
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| 9. | | How to cut megabanks down to size (nytimes.com) |
| 150 points by sshumaker on Jan 20, 2013 | 97 comments |
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| 10. | | Meetup, you've been bad, bad hosts (gist.github.com) |
| 146 points by yoavfr on Jan 20, 2013 | 78 comments |
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| 11. | | Show HN: I'm 14, please check out my iOS game (itunes.apple.com) |
| 142 points by nshen on Jan 20, 2013 | 100 comments |
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| 12. | | Facebook is impersonating users without their consent (bureauofminds.com) |
| 138 points by crcn on Jan 20, 2013 | 73 comments |
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| 13. | | Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000 (hackaday.com) |
| 130 points by zalzane on Jan 20, 2013 | 63 comments |
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| 14. | | Self-examination is the Secret Ingredient for Success (nytimes.com) |
| 128 points by fleaflicker on Jan 20, 2013 | 36 comments |
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| 15. | | A clean point-of-interest icon set for web cartography (mapbox.com) |
| 130 points by tortilla on Jan 20, 2013 | 18 comments |
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| 17. | | C and C++ Aren't Future Proof (regehr.org) |
| 117 points by malloc47 on Jan 20, 2013 | 105 comments |
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| 18. | | Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy? |
| 114 points by tapan_pandita on Jan 20, 2013 | 112 comments |
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| 19. | | How do I cite a tweet? (mla.org) |
| 115 points by mxfh on Jan 20, 2013 | 60 comments |
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| 20. | | Does having a high IQ make you less creative? (reglia.com) |
| 104 points by pmf on Jan 20, 2013 | 53 comments |
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| 21. | | Flat UI is not the only way forward (maxrudberg.com) |
| 103 points by co_pl_te on Jan 20, 2013 | 67 comments |
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| 22. | | Stay focused - New research on how to close the achievement gap (economist.com) |
| 96 points by tchalla on Jan 20, 2013 | 20 comments |
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| 23. | | Mystery Cable Activated in Cuba (renesys.com) |
| 93 points by hazov on Jan 20, 2013 | 25 comments |
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| 24. | | Who Can Name the Biggest Number? (scottaaronson.com) |
| 92 points by pizza on Jan 20, 2013 | 40 comments |
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| 25. | | Improve your REPLs with rlwrap (arpinum.org) |
| 91 points by telemachos on Jan 20, 2013 | 27 comments |
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| 26. | | The Blink Protocol (blinkprotocol.org) |
| 91 points by robdjc on Jan 20, 2013 | 58 comments |
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| 27. | | InstallMonetizer quietly starts editing website, privacy policy (withinwindows.com) |
| 79 points by edandersen on Jan 20, 2013 | 37 comments |
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| 28. | | School district builds own software to handle student data, defies doubters (timescolonist.com) |
| 76 points by japhyr on Jan 20, 2013 | 58 comments |
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| 29. | | PennApps Hackathon Final Demos Livestream (livestream.com) |
| 74 points by kandalf on Jan 20, 2013 | 25 comments |
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| 30. | | Corporate Hackathons: The Fine Line Between Engaging and Exploiting (jamiemsmyth.blogspot.com) |
| 77 points by jf on Jan 20, 2013 | 24 comments |
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There are obvious tells in almost all of them -- mostly lowercase "s", "c", etc, in which Helvetica is has perfectly level edges and arial is angled.
The only harder ones are some of the all caps examples like TOYOTA.