Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI do all of my academic writing in pandoc. As compared to LaTeX this means no boilerplate (yet you can still use full LaTeX syntax for equations and the like) and, if the publisher 'needs' a Word file, you are one click away from providing it. All with plain text files that you can put under version control, get meaningful diffs, etc. It's just great.
I can't express enough my gratitude on a daily basis for what pandoc enables me to do. I made a simple Emacs script that I use to output files, and I use it constantly for Latex PDFs, HTML output, RevealJS slides, and odt/docx/etc. All with bibliographies fron Zotero in zillions of formats. As a professor and journalist, I need to use a wide range of output formats, but as a human being I like to work in clean, simple text…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1783
- Total comments
- 372
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-23 | Pandoc: a universal document converter | ColinWright | 3 | 0 |
| 2015-09-12 | Pandoc – swiss-army knife to convert files from one markup format into another | tilt | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-11-05 | Pandoc: a universal document converter | lisper | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-07-23 | Pandoc: A Universal Document Converter | xparadigm | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-08-27 | PandocFirst breakout · Best thread | otp124 | 1016 | 204 |
| 2020-10-24 | Pandoc – A universal document converterHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | johnsonjo | 756 | 168 |