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necolas / normalize.css

normalize.css

A modern alternative to CSS resets

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What it is

A modern alternative to CSS resets

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 1:03:20 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-06-08 16:12:53 UTC to 2025-10-27 20:43:50 UTC.

012342011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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fireattack·Oct 25, 2019Submission

Ask HN: Why using “system font stack” when you can just use “sans-serif”?

I've read dozens of articles about how various websites set their "system font stack" up and tutorials on it [1-5]. From what I can see, the goal of "system font stack" is trying to use native system font when possible, particularly on mobile. And all these articles gave rationales about how it would be superior than some of the traditional stacks such as `font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;`, which I fully agree. However, none of them seem to address an obvious question: why not just use "font-family: sans-serif;"? The only discussion I found that is on a "notable enough" project is this issue on normalize.css repo: https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/issues/665 -- By assigning only "sans-serif", it will fallback to exactly that: system's default (san-serif) font. For example, there is no need to manually assign, say,
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"Roboto" (a typical choice for any of these "system font stacks") on Android, to accomplish so: "sans-serif" uses Roboto already. Similar can be said for iOS etc. Wikipedia (desktop version, not mobile version) perhaps is the only "notable" site I knew that uses simply "sans-serif", and it seems to work flawlessly for years, on all devices. Another plus for just using "sans-serif" is that for ends that have finer control over fonts (such as desktop browsers), users can assign their own preferred fonts (therefore overriding the system default ones) and it will be immediately applied to the website. This won't happen for sites that have hard-coded fonts (including these "system font stacks"). Disclaimer: I'm not a designer, but a end-user who is relatively sensitive to fonts. [1] https://woorkup.com/system-font/ [2] https://markdotto.com/2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/ [3] https://furbo.org/2018/03/28/system-fonts-in-css/ [4] https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012937927-About-the-system-font-s… [5] https://flaviocopes.com/css-system-fonts/ (Just search "system font stack to get more)
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