Font where each token is equal-width

gchamonlive•about 2 hours ago

Don't you have anywhere else you can share it other than twitter?

Inb4 I'm not going to use life support systems like xcancel, xdying is long overdue

smallerize•about 1 hour ago

Yesterday's post with more points and comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851883

josmar•about 1 hour ago

https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

problem solved

gchamonlive•about 1 hour ago

  Inb4 I'm not going to use life support systems like xcancel, xdying is long overdue

Isn't this just like xcancel, privacy notwithstanding?

meowface•about 1 hour ago

While I detest Elon and the fact that Twitter is now filled to the brim with neo-Nazis and tankies and other nutjobs, unfortunately every single other social media site is far inferior for up-to-date tech and AI things. Bluesky doesn't come close, even if you try to curate things to avoid all the anti-AI/anti-tech people. There is no other game in town, and I expect this will be the case even in a decade from now.

gchamonlive•about 1 hour ago

If I worked in the field, AI or crypto, then ok, but for HN posts? People can't expect users to join twitter just to see their content. This is rude and it's not like people need to leave twitter altogether, just repost on mastodon or bluesky and add the links to the HN posts. If posters can't bother doing this I don't feel like I should bother reading them.

arialdomartini•about 1 hour ago

I'd rather miss out a post about fonts than lend my support to nazism.

Personally, I don't buy the "i have to use Twitter, there's no good enough alternative" argument: we're talking about tweets, not some life-saving technology we can't live without.

gchamonlive•about 1 hour ago

And there are way better alternatives, authors are just too lazy to bother reposting on other platforms

sly010•about 1 hour ago

Here is an other one: https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+SC

happytoexplain•about 2 hours ago

Ha, I like that, but to a layman it looks like the author is trying to say "it can't count the R's in strawberry because the letters are overlapping", which is funny.

dahart•about 2 hours ago

Cute idea, but is this fixed width words, and not fixed width tokens? Isn’t an ‘ing’ ending normal a separate token from the root? Isn’t ‘strawberry’ two tokens?

mugul•about 2 hours ago

I think it is: look at the "in" which is likely one token, "strawberry" looks like it is 2x the length of "in". Same for the last word, "ing" seems less compressed than "bear" right before it.

dahart•about 2 hours ago

Looking at the first several examples, shorter (one, two, three-) letter words are not stretched to the full ‘fixed’ width. It’s the whitespace around them that is fixed. The only example in the first three screenshots of splitting a word into tokes is ‘vibes’ which turns into ‘vib’ and ‘es’. I’m skeptical of the -ing and -tion words being single tokens as shown.

Razengan•about 2 hours ago

Where each word has the right shape

Font where each token is equal-width

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