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Ask HN/PG: Is the average screen resolution good enough for serif fonts yet?

1•Y_Y•1h ago
You say in "Taste for Makers" that setting text in sans serif fonts was a mistake. So why do you use them on your site?

(From https://paulgraham.com/gfaq.html 2025-09-17)

I was thinking about this statement from pg. Nowadays most of the screens (ymmv) I deal with have more than 400 ppi. To my average eyes there's no resolution difference with a standard paperback.

Is it time to switch? Should I guard serifs behind a resolution check on my website? Maybe gradually introduce them on a sliding scale?

I was talking about books. The resolution of computer screens is much lower.

The Anthropic Economic Index

https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
1•bpierre•1m ago•0 comments

Making Diamonds with Electron Radiation

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-diamonds-electron.html
1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

Continuous operation of a coherent 3k-qubit system

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09596-6
1•mystraline•4m ago•0 comments

An Interview with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan About Building a Stage for Creators

https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-youtube-ceo-neil-mohan-about-building-a-stage-for-...
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Apple iPhone Air Review

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/iphone-air-review
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski gets a medal, accepts it with a grumpy face

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-witcher/witcher-creator-andrzej-sapkowski-gets-gold-polish-cult...
1•stared•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DataGuessr – a daily quiz that teaches global statistics through play

https://dataguessr.com/
1•davidbauer•16m ago•0 comments

A deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/17/deep-dive-apache-kafkas-kraft-protocol
1•fvaleri•16m ago•0 comments

Forme: HTML Forms Library for Ruby

https://github.com/jeremyevans/forme
1•thunderbong•16m ago•0 comments

Stone-Skimming Contest in Scotland Is Infiltrated by Cheaters

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/world/europe/stone-skimming-championship-cheating.html
1•geox•18m ago•0 comments

New 'sieve' detects the smallest pieces of plastic in the environment

https://theconversation.com/new-type-of-sieve-detects-the-smallest-pieces-of-plastic-in-the-envir...
1•gmays•20m ago•0 comments

What is algebraic about algebraic effects?

https://interjectedfuture.com/what-is-algebraic-about-algebraic-effects/
1•iamwil•21m ago•0 comments

Bessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage Pledges

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/bessent-like-fed-governor-made-contradictory-m...
2•impish9208•21m ago•1 comments

The Mathematician's Assistant: Integrating AI into Research Practice

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20236
1•ceolin•23m ago•0 comments

China bans tech companies from buying Nvidia's AI chips

https://www.ft.com/content/09c93e6b-a6bb-4c20-b079-e489d8d4bd90
6•MonkeyClub•23m ago•1 comments

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

https://www.galois.com/articles/claude-can-sometimes-prove-it
1•lairv•24m ago•0 comments

Procedural Island Generation (III)

https://brashandplucky.com/2025/09/17/procedural-island-generation-iii.html
2•ibobev•26m ago•0 comments

Ten Startup Ideas Instantly

https://www.minimumviablenl.com/
1•minimumviable•27m ago•0 comments

Why Develop with Z-Wave

https://z-wavealliance.org/development-resources-overview/development-process-overview/
1•mooreds•27m ago•0 comments

Flatlines, confirmation bias and pretty graphs

https://neerajsingh0101.neetopublish.com/p/flatlines-confirmation-bias-and-pretty-graphs
1•neerajdotname2•28m ago•0 comments

Your Classes Are Too Big (Talk)

https://ted.dev/articles/2023/05/30/your-classes-are-too-big-talk/
1•mooreds•29m ago•0 comments

NASA Is Now Primarily an Intelligence and National Security Agency

https://nasawatch.com/trumpspace/nasa-is-now-primarily-an-intelligence-national-security-agency/
2•throw0101d•29m ago•1 comments

Guide To America: bold, satirical visual and unapologetic

https://www.guidetoamerica.info/
1•bhagyash•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Non-restoring division algorithm doubt?

1•shivajikobardan•31m ago•0 comments

I tested the speed of popular tunneling services, pretty shocking

https://www.localcan.com/blog/ngrok-vs-cloudflare-tunnel-vs-localcan-speed-test-2025
1•jarekceborski•31m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes Security can be Fun?

https://whitneylee.com/2025/09/16/kubernetes-security-can-be-fun.html
1•mooreds•32m ago•0 comments

Apple Explains Why Mac Users in the EU Can't Use iPhone Mirroring

https://www.thurrott.com/apple/322065/apple-explains-why-mac-users-in-the-eu-cant-use-iphone-mirr...
3•SoKamil•32m ago•1 comments

Banana AI Saree – One-Click Saree Photo Generator

https://aisaree.art/
1•wadudu•34m ago•1 comments

Who Was the First to Fly?: The decades-long fight over the Wrights' achievement

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/who-was-the-first-to-fly
2•crescit_eundo•36m ago•0 comments

Spec Kit By GitHub: turn natural-language specs into actionable dev steps

https://github.com/github/spec-kit
1•mustaphah•36m ago•0 comments