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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard↗ bastardica.mitpit.com · HN · 123 comments · 859 points · Sep 23, 2026
Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width↗ ampdot.mesh.host · HN · 23 comments · 93 points · Sep 26, 2026
A font that reads what you wrote↗ rohanadwankar.github.io · HN · 44 comments · 97 points · Sep 20, 2026
Nebula Sans↗ nebulasans.com · HN · 196 comments · 473 points · Aug 26, 2026
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots↗ timmarinin.net · HN · 439 comments · 715 points · Aug 17, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard↗ bastardica.mitpit.com · HN · 123 comments · 859 points · Sep 23, 2026
A font that reads what you wrote↗ rohanadwankar.github.io · HN · 44 comments · 97 points · Sep 20, 2026
Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width↗ ampdot.mesh.host · HN · 23 comments · 93 points · Sep 26, 2026
Better Icon and Label Alignment↗ ishadeed.com · HN · 8 comments · 43 points · Sep 16, 2026
Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack↗ leadedsolder.com · HN · 3 comments · 30 points · Sep 08, 2026
Font where each token is equal-width↗ twitter.com · HN · 14 comments · 26 points · Sep 26, 2026
Show HN: What If Donut.c but with Any ASCII Art↗ asdesai.com · HN · 3 comments · 17 points · Sep 12, 2026
BeOS-R5-Icons↗ github.com · HN · 1 comments · 15 points · Sep 20, 2026
Show HN: Frost – frosted-glass Linux icons where file types say what they are↗ github.com · HN · 1 comments · 15 points · Sep 19, 2026
Xkcd-Font: The Xkcd Font↗ github.com · HN · 4 comments · 15 points · Sep 13, 2026

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