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Show HN: Free Fonts – a collection of 400+ original, open-source typefaces

Hacker News - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 7:57pm

Hi HN!

For the past few months I've been working up to this launch of Free Fonts - it's a collection of completely free, open source, and original fonts that can be used for any project, including commercial ones.

The collection has over 400 fonts in a variety of novel styles, from simple sans serifs to decorative handwritten and blackletter fonts. It will also continue to be updated and grow over time.

Designers and developers today have essentially two options when it comes to choosing and creating fonts. Either use a Google Font, which can be limited in terms of unique and novel selections, or pay a significant amount of money for font licenses from a few large players in the space like Monotype. The problem today is that it can be difficult to find a novel, unique font for an affordable price. Our hope is that this collection can be a starting point for solving this problem.

What makes this project different is that every font in the collection was generated completely by AI, and is a novel set of letterforms. This is what makes it possible for me to launch the project with confidence that these fonts can be freely used in any type of project.

The AI workflow behind this project is also accessible on the same site. Our model was trained on a variety of images across the internet and then runs a full pipeline to transform a consistent set of letters into a single downloadable TTF font file. It can be prompted from a text prompt, or a sample image that contains an image of some text.

Font licensing is a complex world, and I deeply believe that it is ripe for a change. My hope is that this launch can spark a new conversation on the future of typography and how it can be freely and easily used by designers and developers over time.

Hope that you enjoy, and would love your feedback about the project and also the fonts themselves.

Eric

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New Getmonero.org Website Design

Hacker News - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 7:47pm

Article URL: https://beta.monerodevs.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230177

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Ask HN: What happens when you intercept and modify Claude Code's system prompt?

Hacker News - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 7:46pm

Has anyone tried it? Curious what breaks and what doesn’t.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230172

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XMRChat – Tip your favorite streamer in cryptocurrency

Hacker News - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 7:45pm

Article URL: https://xmrchat.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230159

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Show HN: Traditional Card Game Website

Hacker News - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 7:41pm

Hey guys,

My friends and I have gotten really into playing traditional card games recently, especially trick-based ones. Our favorite one is called Tractor (or Sheng Ji), which was taught to us after our friend became frustrated that he could no longer play it with his hometown friends.

I am moving soon, so there is demand for some way to play our games virtually. I wrote this site (with obvious help of AI) with our favorite games so we have a place to play after I move.

Feel free to try some games out. It's new, so I there will likely be issues. Feel free to report them here. Also don't hesitate to recommend any games you think I should try or add.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230136

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Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

Hacker News - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 7:37pm

I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what I should do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was literally the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was deleted. Then another person replied. Same exact AI response again.

I worked as a developer in a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with the question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn't even read the AI's answer. He just screenshots and forwards it.

Recently someone sent me a DM on Reddit about my post. I replied. He wrote again, I replied again. After a few messages I realized I was talking to an AI agent.

I'm tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI's answer.

More notes: orchidfiles.com/notes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230104

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Codex got better, codex might be built with Claude Opus

Hacker News - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 7:36pm

Very suspicious with openai codex getting better, I wonder if codex teams use Claude opus to build codex. Anyone engineer from openai who can confirm…

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230097

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