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How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128020/how-was-the-universal-pictures-1936-opening-logo-created
213•azeemba•4h ago•30 comments

MacBook Pro Insomnia

https://manuel.bernhardt.io/posts/2025-07-24-macbook-pro-insomnia
51•speckx•1h ago•23 comments

Introduction to Computer Music

https://cmtext.com/
158•hecanjog•4h ago•30 comments

I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

https://www.spacebar.news/servo-undercover-web-browser-engine/
164•robtherobber•4h ago•110 comments

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/114946559233051667
165•nickslaughter02•3h ago•87 comments

Ursa: A Leaderless, Object Storage–Based Alternative to Kafka

https://streamnative.io/products/ursa
15•netpaladinx•44m ago•2 comments

What is gVisor?

https://blog.yelinaung.com/posts/gvisor/
41•yla92•2h ago•25 comments

Zig Profiling on Apple Silicon

https://blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/zig-profilers/
25•signa11•2d ago•2 comments

Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-Loop Agentic Systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22358
8•fitzn•51m ago•1 comments

GCP CloudQuarry: Searching for Secrets in Public GCP Images

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/guest-post-gcp-cloudquarry-searching-for-secrets-in-public-gcp-images
7•mooreds•50m ago•0 comments

Following Up on the Python JIT

https://lwn.net/Articles/1029307/
46•Bogdanp•3d ago•11 comments

GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

https://arxiviq.substack.com/p/gepa-reflective-prompt-evolution
69•che_shr_cat•4h ago•15 comments

Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

https://larstofus.com/2025/07/27/profiling-without-source-code-how-i-diagnosed-trackmania-stuttering/
27•ibobev•3d ago•2 comments

Infracost (YC W21) hiring first PM to shift $600B cloud spend to proactive

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/ukwJ299-senior-product-manager
1•akh•3h ago

Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility

https://eclipse.dev/sumo/
115•Stevvo•3d ago•19 comments

GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database

https://www.npmjs.com/package/genosdb
16•estebanrfp•2h ago•3 comments

NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/fair-trading/dark-patterns
11•ColinWright•2h ago•1 comments

Altima NSX

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/altima-nsx
18•rbanffy•3h ago•11 comments

Go’s race detector has a mutex blind spot

https://doublefree.dev/go-race-mutex-blindspot/
50•GarethX•2d ago•32 comments

How to trigger a command on Linux when power switches from AC to battery

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-05-31-linux-killswitch-on-power-disconnect.html
44•Mr_Minderbinder•5h ago•19 comments

Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

36•taure•2h ago•11 comments

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

https://docs.carbon-lang.dev/
5•samuell•1h ago•1 comments

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/
165•joak•2d ago•161 comments

U.S. Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block Beard

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-senators-introduce-new-pirate-site-blocking-bill-block-beard/
31•HieronymusBosch•50m ago•4 comments

So you're a manager now

https://scottkosman.com/post/blog/so-youre-a-manager-now/
135•mooreds•2h ago•105 comments

The Math Is Haunted

https://overreacted.io/the-math-is-haunted/
331•danabramov•18h ago•149 comments

Orion Browser by Kagi

https://kagi.com/orion/
4•gtirloni•1h ago•0 comments

Ollama's new app

https://ollama.com/blog/new-app
500•BUFU•18h ago•259 comments

Figma will IPO on July 31

https://www.figma.com/blog/ipo-pricing/
309•nevir•17h ago•202 comments

Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos

https://codspeed.io/blog/benchmarks-in-ci-without-noise
12•adriencaccia•3h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

https://optician-sans.com/
308•exvi•23h ago

Comments

javier2•22h ago
So its also monospace?
MattSteelblade•22h ago
Doesn't look like it. https://github.com/anewtypeofinterference/Optician-Sans/issu...
graypegg•22h ago
Huh, so I'm only just learning that the Snellen chart isn't the common one! I wouldn't have known the name of it, but if someone asked me to doodle an eye chart from memory, I would've drawn that blocky E with the serifs! I've most likely been tested with the sans-serif Sloan chart I assume, but the letter forms just aren't distinct enough to stick in my brain I guess. A bit of a shame this font doesn't have a "Optician Serif" variant to look like the Snellen letters.
cbm-vic-20•22h ago
That main image makes my astigmatic eyes very unhappy.

https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3....

abtinf•21h ago
Why did they animate it to add a blur?
GuinansEyebrows•20h ago
probably to evoke the feeling of undergoing an eye exam.
dylan604•20h ago
I can hear the tech asking "number 1 or number 2"
ahazred8ta•18h ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250730205400/https://nerocam.c...
somat•9h ago
It's probably just me being a huge introvert, but I dislike saying "I am not sure do it again" more than twice and am always left a bit discontent wondering if the prescription is as good as it should be.

I wish I could book 30 minutes alone with the machine and just dial it in perfectly myself.

bonoboTP•5h ago
Once I felt like I'll be really attentive and answer confidently, and in the end I got overminused. The hesitation is part of the signal. If it's 1% sharper, even if you can tell which one is 1% sharper, you gotta say hmmm number 1 is a bit better but just a little.

Adding -0.5 to the diopter will often make the distance noticeably sharper in appearance while not really giving you more lines you can read, it's a sensation of sharpness but not really more info. And for that you a price because near vision will require straining your eye muscles to accommodate, and that will often cause headaches and tiredness after reading or working at a monitor.

jrockway•3h ago
It's worth finding an optometrist that you have a good rapport with for that reason. I got lucky and get along really well with the person that I see; the results are worth speaking up for.

(I had two somewhat persistent problems before I started seeing her... One was that my prescription was focused a little before infinity because the sign is 20 feet away and not infinity feet away. We tweaked some stuff and fixed that problem. The other was that if I'm tired and it's pretty low contrast outside, I always see double. We added some extra prism for that and it's helped a lot. I've had the same prism prescription for 30 years but adding more was a noticeable improvement.)

atonse•20h ago
OMG I kept thinking my glasses (progressive lenses) were causing that. I didn't realize it was animating.
darkwater•18h ago
Can't you clearly see why?
pimlottc•18h ago
That's horrible, the full page blur is less bad since it's so obvious. But man, you should never be intentionally gaslighting the user by making them second-guess their own vision.
Orygin•4h ago
The full page blur is horrendous. Every navigation to the page triggers it, so if you click and link and hit back, here's a blurry page for 2s. It also nearly triggers headaches for me, so clearly the webdesigner should not be hired for anything serious...
gadders•22h ago
Nice font. Could have done without the dude's tinder profile pic though.
edwinjm•21h ago
That’s how Nordic people look like <grin>
dylan604•20h ago
You know you swiped right.

I had the same odd sentiment about the use of the images as well. It does nothing for me about wanting to use the font.

gadders•6h ago
:-) Not my target market, but I'd be interested to hear how it worked out for him.
m3kw9•22h ago
upon entering, it reminds me to go to the Optometrist
CarVac•21h ago
The round G strongly resembles the Google logo.
its-summertime•21h ago
that C is annoyingly O-ish, and the blurring... feels almost like its made by an anti-optician
jamesdwilson•21h ago
it was derived from eye charts that are explicitly designed to find defects in your eyes - it is not a coincidence the O and C look similar.
jantissler•20h ago
And there are also alternative versions of many letters as shown further down on the page.
artemisart•17h ago
Yes I don't understand how they can claim it's optimized for legibility when the base font does the inverse.
Telemakhos•15h ago
There's an alternative, more squarish C; about half the letters have alternative glyphs. If you're using macOS Font Book, scroll down to the bottom of the repertoire to see the alt glyphs.
sandbach•21h ago
Always amusing to see spelling errors on painstakingly put together design websites. Unless NRK did indeed mean 'Let us all behave like opticians!'
stevetron•20h ago
My default blank document Font settings in MSWord is Liberation Sans, Bold, 14 px.

But my cataract problem is getting worse, and I may have to bump the size up yet again. I have yet to find another font I like as well.

oxguy3•19h ago
Liberation Sans is indeed great, but I'm so intrigued: how did you end up preferring a libre font but a proprietary word processor?
egypturnash•19h ago
I like how one of the testimonials is someone at Adobe basically quoting the copy at the top of the page.

"OPTICIAN SANS: A free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide." - top copy

“A free typeface based on opticians’ eye charts” -Khoi Vinh, Principal designer, Adobe

arcticfox•18h ago
I think all the testimonials are fake, if this wasn't clear to everyone. I thought they might be real at first but none of them exist. I actually thought that was kind of shitty to do, since they use real companies and media outlets.

(I don't really follow fonts but I do know there is a subculture crazy about them, so I thought it could be theoretically possible that people would write reviews of them).

Rendello•18h ago
You can click them, they link to their sources.
piker•18h ago
> "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else."

- the link under discussion

GranPC•18h ago
Link rot is alive and well... unlike their links. https://web.archive.org/web/20190430201350/https://twitter.c...
allenu•16h ago
It indeed looks like a real quote then, but not much of a testimonial. It may as well be rephrased, "Optician Sans is a thing that I acknowledge exists." Nowadays I suppose that's good enough reason to put up the logo of a company on the landing page.
morkalork•13h ago
Same energy as:

>I Heartily Endorse This Event Or Product

hn_go_brrrrr•13h ago
I'm Commander Sheppard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.
jrockway•4h ago
I clicked the Fast Company one because the quote seemed most fake to me and it was a real article. I learned that the underlying problem here is that eye charts only have like 10 letters on them, and this font attempts to guess the rest so you have a full alphabet.
jaysonelliot•17h ago
I work for Khoi. I should ask him if he really gave this quote.
egypturnash•37m ago
It links to a tweet. I get a "not found" error there but that's, like, 78% of the Xitter links I click on ever since Musk went full Nazi.
isege•19h ago
Is it just me or does it look eerily similar to the font Anthropic uses?
jy14898•7h ago
The font is around 6 years old and free, so I wouldn't be suprised
mellonaut•19h ago
For those that now find themselves inspired to type the Snellen E, the internet provides an OFL typeface that scratches your itch here¹ (this unclearly licensed modification² even comes with some cute but barely readable lowercase versions of the letters)

1] https://radagast.ca/snellen/snellen.html 2] https://mk.bcgsc.ca/snellen-optotype-font/

jiehong•18h ago
This reminds me of the eye chart used in some countries, because it isn't based on reading letters, but on a direction.

For example [0], you should indicate the direction where the E points to.

[0]: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61MRfRwHwWL._SL1235_.jpg

mongol•18h ago
I remember this from when I was a child. Was maybe 4-5 and had not learned the letters yet. But I could turn my hand.
msikora•18h ago
This is for kids.
Eduard•15h ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_chart
bobmcnamara•13h ago
Too many Red Ramages driving submarines I suppose.
throwaway290•18h ago
Fake testimonials.
srameshc•18h ago
I am looking for a very readable font and I like it. I am not in anyway qualified to compare it to Source Sans Pro or Opensans which I believe are considered very read friendly.
Rendello•18h ago
Previously seen on HN in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18665595

They made a Medium post as well: https://medium.com/anewtypeofinterference/completing-a-typef...

voxleone•17h ago
Really like this typeface. It hits that rare sweet spot between experimental and functional. Big thanks to the ANTI Hamar team.
amdivia•17h ago
The loading animation made me feel in need of a visit to my optician
htk•15h ago
Nice font, I wish it had lower case letters as well. It looks like it could be a great fixed width font for coding.
ayaros•15h ago
I love this so much! I sent it to my Dad, who's an ophthalmologist. Hopefully he gets a kick out of it.
dogmatism•15h ago
Nah

Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille institute is the way if we're going for fonts from vision experts

tim--•13h ago
There's a mono version of the font too! https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Atkinson+Hyperlegible+Mono
tim--•13h ago
From the designer's website (https://anti.as/optiker-k) it seems that this was commissioned by ANTI Hamar for the rebranding project for Optiker-K, a Norwegian optician and optometrists store.

This is fantastic! More custom fonts like this should be open sourced.

To me the font looks pretty legible. Worth noting that the font is from 2018, so it's not really a new font, but it is still one of my favorites.

lelandfe•5h ago
A deeper dive from the agency: https://medium.com/anewtypeofinterference/completing-a-typef...
andrewinardeer•10h ago
The Dropbox link in the footer is dead:

``` This link has been deleted The owner of this link has deleted or disabled this link. You can not access it at this time. ```

ourmandave•4h ago
I didn't notice until my last visit but they also make eye charts for kids who don't know letters yet.