It's their website. They can do with it whatever the hell they want. They owe random people on HN exactly nothing. And you can also do whatever the hell you want on your website, because that's your website.
You also need to reset "font-feature-settings" by the way.
Re:WebP is so great except it's not
by INGSOCIALITE on Friday December 15, 2023 @08:18AM
(#38653876)
and he can globally remove whatever he wants from being displayed in his browser with global style overrides!
what a glorious world we live in
They didn't just add a tip how to override it, they said this should not be done at all.
Re:WebP is so great except it's not
by jakubmazanec on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:45AM
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I wouldn't turn off all ligatures, some of them are actually useful.
* { font-variant-ligatures:unset!important; }
I'm pretty infuriated that this is necessary, why would someone abuse readability so much for their own personal satisfaction about how "cool and unique" they are? Usability. Comes. First.