Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderAs a way to show off the capability of ligatures, more power to them. As an effort to censor, why in the ever loving fuck nuggets would you ever actually do that? I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t…
Etymology: > The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".[1] In the early 2000s, Google's opt-in SafeSearch filters made the same error, preventing people from searching for local businesses or URLs that included Scunthorpe in their names.[2] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem Also, grawlix: > Grawlixes…
Related: http://www.sansbullshitsans.com If you ask me, Sans Bullshit Sans does a much better job at blocking really offensive content than this one.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 973
- Total comments
- 521
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-07 | A font that censors bad language automatically | eric_h | 5 | 1 |
| 2020-05-08 | Scunthorpe Sans – a font that censors bad language automatically | lamby | 5 | 0 |
| 2020-05-10 | Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring fontFirst breakout · Best thread | phoe-krk | 673 | 284 |
| 2022-07-02 | Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automaticallyLatest 20+ point return | WayToDoor | 290 | 236 |