Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)

[geor9e]

12 years earlier, there was an iteration of this idea called "Bullfighter". It didn't use clever ligatures though.

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/06/14/ole-deloitte-con...

https://bullfighter.software.informer.com/1.2/

[john1633]

The link about ligatures under the textbox leads to a page about selling annuities.

[erik_seaberg]

Looks like the host started returning errors after this version from 2018, and then in 2022 someone bought the domain or host and did not preserve any content.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180423125746/http://stateofweb...

[ChrisArchitect]

(2015)

Wondering if the avalanche of buzzwords since has been added

[wwalexander]

The blog post explaining the implementation[0] says the source of the buzzwords was a list “250 Buzzwords We Love To Hate” published on May 13, 2014[1].

[0] https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140516035753/http://www.ngenwo...

[ChrisArchitect]

Hm, guess not https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans

[Tao3300]

I was expecting blockchain to set it off, but no.

[upmostly]

Synergy wasn't replaced.

[pteraspidomorph]

I pasted the lyrics for Mission Statement by Weird Al. I got ten bullshits (including synergy) and four bullfuckingshits, which were for: globalization, downsized, and paradigm shift (x2).

[hnlmorg]

That was the first word I tried and it was censored as expected. What was the sentence you used ‘synergy’ in?

[bluescrn]

It does in all-lower-case

[jakelsaunders94]

Haha, synergy was my go-to first word too. I’m still not sure what it means.

[kmoser]

I typed something in the box and...nothing happened. What am I missing? I tried with both Chrome and Firefox (latest versions).

[zetsurin]

Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed?

>Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures

[osrec]

Did you type words that are likely to be considered bullshit?

[joelthelion]

I wish Microsoft would set this as the default in outlook and teams...

[lostlogin]

‘New’ Teams might trigger the filter?

[dang]

Related:

Sans Bullshit Sans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9534204 - May 2015 (16 comments)

Sans Bullshit Sans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 - Feb 2015 (97 comments)

[WaxProlix]

Also reminds me of Scunthorpe Sans (2020 and 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957551

[benreesman]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40692197

[smusamashah]

I have been using this bookmarklet which replaces all BS terminology with the word bullshit https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

Its fun to see when an article lights up top to bottom with this pink shade of bullshit.

[rrr_oh_man]

Missing: batteries-included, lightweight, simple, rewritten in Rust

[bluescrn]

Also anything to do with 'Web 3.0'/cryptononsense and AI.

[shever73]

…and “blue sky thinking” and anything to do with “synergies”.

[pessimizer]

"Ideation" when not preceded by "suicidal" and especially when followed by "period," "stage" or "phase."

edit: This is a good case for including AI in a font. Maybe in the future all fonts will have AI that keeps people from saying things with them.

edit2: are we flagging for Rust slander now?

[educasean]

Our lives have been bullshit sans sans bullshit sans.

[HasanYousef]

I like how “startup” gets replaced with bullshit

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[Firehawke]

Needs "do the needful" for completion's sake.

[mock-possum]

Ugh I can’t stand that one. I know it’s unfair of me, plenty of Indians use it as a totally normal phrase, but it’s just comes off as so awkward and cringy to my ears, like a parent reminding a potty-training child to use the bathroom before they have an ‘accident.’