Comment by jraph

> an article like this getting this high in hacker news is just very wild to me

It might be because it's a "You should host web fonts from Google Fonts yourself" in disguise. The technical "How to" is almost not the important part here :-)

It may give some pause to web devs who hotlink to google here on HN without much thoughts and make them consider doing it differently next time.

I suspect many people upvoting it are doing it for this. Maybe upvotes here might actually mean "Please host Google Fonts yourself".