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US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2026/03/03/25-403.pdf
261•dryadin•6h ago•165 comments

Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
102•rendx•3h ago•44 comments

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
173•robin_reala•2h ago•47 comments

Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04782
39•runningmike•3d ago•18 comments

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

https://agent-safehouse.dev/
640•atombender•16h ago•151 comments

Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks
491•zdw•1d ago•65 comments

PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

https://github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec/AngstromIO-devboard
198•zachlatta•1d ago•43 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

182•david927•12h ago•667 comments

We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works

https://gfrm.in/posts/why-decision-theory-lost/index.html
21•slygent•3h ago•3 comments

Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer

https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/introducing-vs-code-agent-kanban-task-management-for-the-ai-assi...
6•gbro3n•2h ago•0 comments

I love email (2023)

https://blog.xoria.org/email/
50•surprisetalk•3d ago•18 comments

Every single board computer I tested in 2025

https://bret.dk/every-single-board-computer-i-tested-in-2025/
183•speckx•4d ago•59 comments

Segagaga Has Been Translated into English

https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/02/segagaga-has-finally-been-translated.html
8•nanna•1d ago•0 comments

FrameBook

https://fb.edoo.gg
457•todsacerdoti•21h ago•77 comments

My Homelab Setup

https://bryananthonio.com/blog/my-homelab-setup/
260•photon_collider•19h ago•171 comments

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)

https://offlinemark.com/an-obscure-quirk-of-proc/
94•medbar•13h ago•21 comments

Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life

https://github.com/Rabrg/artificial-life
126•tosh•15h ago•16 comments

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era

https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/
256•horseradish•16h ago•175 comments

I made a programming language with M&Ms

https://mufeedvh.com/posts/i-made-a-programming-language-with-mnms/
93•tosh•18h ago•36 comments

Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)

https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why-cant-you-tune-your-guitar/
222•digitallogic•4d ago•154 comments

Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRV8fSw6HaE
207•kevinak•21h ago•206 comments

My “grand vision” for Rust

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/
214•todsacerdoti•4d ago•206 comments

How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier

https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ro61g2/how_the_sriracha_guys_screwed_over_...
248•thunderbong•8h ago•86 comments

Ask HN: How to be alone?

523•sillysaurusx•1d ago•381 comments

Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/nscale-ai-data-center-nvidia-raise.html
16•voxadam•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP

https://github.com/knowsuchagency/mcp2cli
105•knowsuchagency•7h ago•66 comments

Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024)

https://github.com/nevesnunes/z80-sans
126•pabs3•4d ago•12 comments

The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)

https://www.smartlab.at/rss-revival-life-after-social-media/
172•jruohonen•8h ago•110 comments

WSL Manager

https://github.com/bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager
114•gballan•18h ago•59 comments

The legendary Mojave Phone Booth is back (2013)

https://dailydot.com/mojave-phone-booth-back-number
37•1970-01-01•2d ago•8 comments
Open in hackernews

Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
102•rendx•3h ago

Comments

jruohonen•2h ago
The idea is cool, but, well:

"No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."

wongarsu•2h ago
sound great
phoronixrly•2h ago
Are you implying that the lack of data harvesting is a disadvantage?
codetiger•2h ago
It not a disadvantage but a rare trait nowadays.
iberator•2h ago
well makes sense if JavaScript is run 100% locally.

Browser can be treated as loader of code to be executed only locally with Local only data.

i hate js, but it's doable

Wowfunhappy•1h ago
Your post makes it sound like you consider this a bad thing?
catoc•41m ago
I don’t see the downside here.

If you don’t believe it, maybe disconnect from network before dropping the file?

vaylian•2h ago
The instructions say that rows 2 and 3 in the template can be either lower or upper case. How does the website determine the case in those rows? Does it simply check if row 1 looks different from the other rows?
Thomashuet•2h ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
Daneel_•1h ago
I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
tazjin•1h ago
It is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in cursive (and learnt that in school). I'm in my 30s.
jech•12m ago
> I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/%D0%9B%D...

Understandable.

d1sxeyes•2m ago
OP double negated - cursive is the norm for Russians of all ages.

Russian cursive is actually not that bad to read for the most part. Russian “print” is super awkward because all the characters are very angular.

There are some differences between generations (younger generations are more likely to write “т” in handwriting whereas the “correct” form looks more like a Latin “m”, but with obvious examples excluded (like the above), it just takes learning as a separate alphabet.

BoredPositron•1h ago
It's more cultural than generational.
psychoslave•1h ago
That's not generational. Living in France I can ensure you that in primary school, kids still learn and use cursive as main writing system. I wasn't even aware anyone would use anything else to write by hand in Latin script.

I'm curious to get information about how people write elsewhere and how does it look.

guenthert•1h ago
Yeah, no idea how print became handwriting and handwriting longhand/cursive, but that's how it is and has been for decades in the USA.
Angostura•1h ago
Still taught in uk primary schools as the fastest way to get words down in paper
guenthert•1h ago
Makes me wonder whether there are diction tests (I feared/hated those with a passion) in the USA?
antonyh•1h ago
Conversely I don't know anyone who doesn't write in cursive. It's still taught in schools in the UK, and I still write with it and actively aim to improve.
zimpenfish•2h ago
I've used iFontMaker for this on the iPad - quite amusing to be able to select my own monospaced font for terminals (even if it is just "old man traced over Courier Prime badly".)

Will definitely give this a go with various pens to see how that affects the outcome.

nacozarina•1h ago
new signature-forging tool just dropped, suite !
Fnoord•1h ago
I hereby declare I''ll be unfit for school next Friday due to an illness.

Signed, Mom

4ndr3vv•42m ago
I HEREBY DECLARE I' LL BE UNFIT FOR SCHOOL NE XT FRIDAY DUE TO AN ILLnESS .

S I G N E D , M O M

ghrl•1h ago
There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font.

Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the browser would mean it does not depend on a server and continues working as an archived version, so that's certainly great.

Y_Y•23m ago
Ah, the Overleaf model.

Am I crazy to think there should be some way to stop this? It's utterly anticompetitive, but ai don't know any country where they bother trying to stop a small company buying/killing its competitors.

mittermayr•1h ago
Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!?

Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?

psychoslave•1h ago
Not sure it would work in my case. I do love to take the very different freedom it brings. For example the mid bars of a t is often taken as an opportunity to go through above the whole word. But I wouldn't do it every single time, as it would feel too much overload.

I also don't write the same way on a post it ready to throw than in my little personal aphorism book, where I try to craft something where the form connects with the intended meaning.

world2vec•1h ago
Turning my handwriting into a font is akin to encrypt the text :-D
ixvo•58m ago
Only applicable for retarded countries where people don't write in cursive
feverzsj•58m ago
That'll be the ugliest font.
ixvo•57m ago
This works mostly for the US, where people don't write in cursive.
himata4113•50m ago
Text encryption, I like it!
micw•50m ago
Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?
roughE•38m ago
Asking the right questions
catoc•47m ago
A wise doctor once typed…
easton•43m ago
Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time.
coxley•5m ago
Right!? My mind teleported back to the TechTV era for a second.
xmattx•35m ago
Tried it, it failed at the first hurdle, which is scanning the glyphs correctly. Seems to be an offset somewhere as they get shifted vertically.
stratosgear•29m ago
Same here. The characters need to move higher. They look like I wrote them below the baseline... :(
alsodumb•30m ago
My hand writing is so bad I don't know if a really want a font out of it lol (love the project though!)
karmasimida•23m ago
Well I really don't like my handwriting, would rather avoid it
axegon_•18m ago
Awesome! For anyone that think doctors' handwriting is unintelligible, wait till I give that thing a spin
scotty79•17m ago
A sign of how irrelevant handwriting became is that there are no popular AI models that aim at cloning it, even though it should be fairly easy.
amigocesar•8m ago
What about tildes, accents, cedilles?

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