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Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

https://radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-releases-helicopter-music-video-featuring-gaussian-splatting
222•ChrisArchitect•3h ago•85 comments

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

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108•antirez•2h ago•38 comments

Microslop: A Web Browser Extension

https://github.com/4O4-wasd/Microslop
24•Nales•1h ago•3 comments

Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram (2018)

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25•tony-allan•1h ago•0 comments

A Social Filesystem

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130•icy•12h ago•70 comments

Stirling Cycle Machine Analysis

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Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)

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46•maxall4•3h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup

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47•frabonacci•3h ago•3 comments

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250•tosh•11h ago•173 comments

Overlapping Markup

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37•ripe•10h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine

https://github.com/Loretta1982/xenia
29•xeniafont•10h ago•8 comments

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54•JeanKage•4d ago•19 comments

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

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126•jwilk•11h ago•30 comments

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https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-cathedral-megachurch-bazaar/
73•todsacerdoti•4d ago•57 comments

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12•coloneltcb•5d ago•6 comments

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128•fork-bomber•6d ago•69 comments

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

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106•tuned•9h ago•26 comments

Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

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413•calcifer•6h ago•324 comments

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76•dannote•14h ago•31 comments

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207•__patchbit__•14h ago•102 comments

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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

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460•sea-gold•14h ago•53 comments

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276•nl•17h ago•259 comments

What is Plan 9?

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135•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•54 comments

Multiword matrix multiplication over large finite fields in floating-point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07508
23•7777777phil•5d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine

https://github.com/Loretta1982/xenia
29•xeniafont•10h ago
I'm an engineer who spent the last year fixing everything I hated about monofonts (especially that double-story 'a').

I built a custom Python-based procedural engine to generate the weights because I wanted more logical control over the geometry. It currently has 700+ glyphs and deep math support.

Regular weight is free for the community. I'm releasing more weights based on interest.

Comments

fimdomeio•2h ago
I would suggest making the screenshot with the font at different sizes. They first thing I want is to have an approximation of how it will look at small sizes.
xandrius•1h ago
I find the "i" quite excruciating to look at.

Also would like to see more examples, say including this deep math.

TehCorwiz•1h ago
It's just letting you dot your Ts and cross your Is. ;)
Y_Y•46m ago
It's like a dotted version of the false/bottom symbol from logic: ⊥̇
grilledchickenw•1h ago
Could you share more information on this custom python procedural engine?
ako•1h ago
Is this related: https://www.paratype.com/fonts/pt/xenia ?
lemontheme•46m ago
The 'a' and the 'o' are a bit similar, but all in all I can see myself trying this out. Reminds me a bit of Comic Code and Maple Mono. Thanks for sharing!

There are a few odd things about this post though. Take this as well-intentioned feedback.

- New account. No previous submissions or comments.

- New Github account. No previous activity.

- Mentions custom engine (cool!), but omits any details.

- Calls other mono fonts 'fugly'; refuses to elaborate.

- Releasing based on interest feels like engagement farming. Let me know when it's done. Then I'll judge whether I'm interested.

- Regular weights are free. Implication is that other weights will be paid. That's fine. I'm happy to pay for fonts. But I'm unlikely to try a font in earnest without bold and italics.

Sorry if this comes off as harsh. I wish you the best with this!

WillAdams•1m ago
Why do this rather than just using METAFONT/METAPOST/METATYPE1?