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Haha, you might have slexdyia.

• deathanatos 10mo ago
  I think it's more the keming of the domain portion of the HN title, especially combined with HN's rather small font size choice (it's a meager 8pt¹!) there, and that it just happens that the mis-kemed result ends up with "John Mastodon", and is thus not trivially noticeable as "wrong"… (I read it the same way, too.) (¹I personally have a browser override for HN's tiny font choice; I thought that 12pt was the universally agreed upon "base text" point size, and "10pt" was "small text", but HN's "normal" is 9pt.)
  • m-hodges 10mo ago
    It’s a Mastodon community joke. https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/mastodon-users-embrace-columnists-funny-error-about-a-fictitious-john-mastodon.html https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/mastodon-users-embrace-col...
    • deathanatos 10mo ago
      TIL! (Though I'd also wager that originated from someone having to squint at more bad kerning.)
  • roywiggins 10mo ago
    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-mastodon https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-mastodon
  • ajkjk 10mo ago
    HN is simple enough that it scales well with browser zoom, and so (imo) is excusable for not following that 12pt standard.
    • mh- 10mo ago
      Agreed. I need a larger font on a lot of sites nowadays, but HN is probably the one that behaves best with simple browser zoom. I have it set to 125 or 150% depending how tired my eyes are..
  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 10mo ago
    > keming Kerning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning Also, if that was the mistake, it's kinda funny given the likelihood it was caused by a kerning issue.
    • deathanatos 10mo ago
      An intentional "pun". E.g., reddit.com/r/keming
• shaky-carrousel 10mo ago
  Dyslexics of the world, untie!
• gruseom 10mo ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=400017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=400017