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| 3. | | Statement of Condemnation of U.S. Mass-Surveillance Programs [pdf] (ucdavis.edu) |
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| 4. | | Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs (petewarden.com) |
| 309 points by spenrose on Sept 9, 2013 | 113 comments |
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| 5. | | Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer (pcaro.es) |
| 305 points by joeyespo on Sept 9, 2013 | 189 comments |
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| 6. | | (λove (print (eval (read)))) (fogus.me) |
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| 7. | | (Trying To) Face Down The Evil At TechCrunch Disrupt (uncrunched.com) |
| 243 points by coloneltcb on Sept 9, 2013 | 90 comments |
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| 8. | | Python API (pythonapi.com) |
| 243 points by compcm on Sept 9, 2013 | 49 comments |
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| 9. | | The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst (cnbc.com) |
| 233 points by rnernento on Sept 9, 2013 | 272 comments |
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| 10. | | An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia (junod.info) |
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| 12. | | Hacker News All-Time Top Links (varun.io) |
| 202 points by ayx on Sept 9, 2013 | 54 comments |
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| 13. | | Dropbox disables ASLR on Windows (codeinsecurity.wordpress.com) |
| 196 points by timpattinson on Sept 9, 2013 | 81 comments |
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| 14. | | Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers (camdavidsonpilon.github.io) |
| 186 points by luu on Sept 9, 2013 | 23 comments |
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| 15. | | Groupon India sells Onion. Traffic crashes site. (aljazeera.com) |
| 180 points by husayn on Sept 9, 2013 | 73 comments |
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| 16. | | PhpMyAdmin Turns 15 (phpmyadmin.net) |
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| 17. | | How we got to $1,000 in recurring revenue (idonethis.com) |
| 160 points by smalter on Sept 9, 2013 | 68 comments |
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| 18. | | Modifying a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem for high performance (usbjtag.com) |
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| 19. | | Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from the U.S. Government (yahoopolicy.tumblr.com) |
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| 153 points by stefcosma on Sept 9, 2013 | 107 comments |
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| 22. | | Show HN: Crime Doesn't Climb in San Francisco (github.com/gwintrob) |
| 145 points by gwintrob on Sept 9, 2013 | 74 comments |
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| 23. | | New iPad browser from Opera (coastbyopera.com) |
| 137 points by pgsandstrom on Sept 9, 2013 | 91 comments |
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| 24. | | Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/11 (schneier.com) |
| 134 points by CapitalistCartr on Sept 9, 2013 | 111 comments |
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| 25. | | Building a PGP web of trust that people will actually use (bitcoinism.blogspot.nl) |
| 129 points by SanderMak on Sept 9, 2013 | 34 comments |
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| 26. | | On Ansible (benscofield.com) |
| 128 points by _pius on Sept 9, 2013 | 54 comments |
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| 27. | | The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About (simpleprogrammer.com) |
| 125 points by jsonmez on Sept 9, 2013 | 117 comments |
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| 28. | | Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC Today (msdn.com) |
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| 29. | | An open source prosthetic hand costing $1000 (3ders.org) |
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| 30. | | DockerUI - A web interface for Docker (github.com/crosbymichael) |
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> Every glyph was carefully planned and calculated, according to defined principles and rules. For this reason, Hermit is coherent and regular.
I hate to say this, but a font by a programmer makes as much sense as a database library by a font designer. Good font design is not about calculations or following principled rules; it's about what looks good to the eye, and it takes a tremendous amount of skill and experience.
And to my eye, at least, the font is incredibly difficult to read. It literally looks like a font designed by an engineer for a plotter, not something designed for the human eye or legibility.
Good fonts follow intuitive rhythms, they focus on word shapes (not just letter shapes), natural curves, there's a tremendous amount of subtlety that goes into achieving a proper sense of balance between letterforms, and a lot of things are actually different between letters/curves/etc. so that they look the same to the eye in the end. Even with "utilitarian" fonts like monospace ones.
"Carefully planned and calculated" is a great recipe for building a bridge, but not for building a font, unfortunately.