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This is an at-a-loss, public service created by volunteers who are not necessarily professional software developers. The first version of the website parsed PDFs. It's not obvious …

Ginga is a Brasilian Portuguese word. I spent all of the day of the blackout listening to the radio (as you might guess) and not once heard the terms "ging" or "ging-induced". Also…

"Typst Overleaf" sounds like a fine business idea to me, if you give the user the option to export TeX (so that they can then submit it to a journal). (If you support both LaTeX an…

Hey, hope you enjoyed the article itself. I'm sorry if you felt that addendum was aggressive. However, I still feel like I'm justified in making it absolutely clear how (and if) I …

While I agree that it's very questionable that Nature would invite someone to write an obituary (or what have you) and then reject it, I fail to see what's so controversial about t…

This should be the link. As is, currently, you get a PDF viewer that does not allow zoom (without zooming surrounding UI), and with a weird comments integration.

This is bound to get some criticism (or some tangent-at-best discussion), but it seems like a pretty fair discussion to me. What I'm missing at the end of the article is the author…

Maybe not your point, but a lot of programmers like to take this as "I should invent the Python of quantum computing", which is just about as silly as trying to approach anyone in …

Every time this is reposted I giggle at this comment: > @chx: I already have a master's thesis. This was harder. – ais523 - high effort answers Oct 29, 2021 at 1:17

Hello HN, I just published v7 of `sane`, a single-file command runner written completely in vanilla Python. Quoting from sane's manual page: > # Why use sane? > Sane is 1. extremel…

Haha, Malware Bytes hates that link

Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics" is fantastic, precisely because it's very applicable.

Re. 403353: That's a lovely stackexchange post, and inspiring; I've run into it more than once when googling for answers. Great running into you here, and thanks for caring enough …

It's true, I do enjoy being perverse. However, I think it's a bit unfair to say I have "picked up a few pieces of knowledge, become excited, and tried to hack their way through by …

Thanks, and ouch. I have some follow-up questions/comments, if you have the time: > these are predefined as `\@firstoftwo` and `\@secondoftwo` I do wish LaTeX kernel commands (whic…

Sorry you feel like that. I tried to counteract for this by including the TL;DR at the top. OTOH this did come from an effort to implement the lambda calculus I discuss at the begi…

Ah, my bad. Can't delete the original reply anymore, sorry.