Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc
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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.
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HN comment orderVery interesting! For replicable research, in uni I once built interactive visualizations from a R studio source that contained the data + the code but that resulted in multiple outputs (html embedding the R notebook and markdown files, Microsoft Word, PDF...) Technically, it was quite simple, but it enabled interesting usecases: I could send my homework to my professor in an easily readable format, but if he wanted to dig deeper, he could also check I did everything right, and…
One of the things I really love about Quarto is that it's a great way to package WebAssembly tools. For example the Shiny for Python website is built using Quarto and has tons of WASM examples which let people play around with the framework without having to install it. It's really changed how we write documentation. https://shiny.posit.co/py/docs/overview.html Some other great quarto features: - Write Python Package documentation with Quarto Doc: https://github.com/machow/quartodoc - Make static dashboards with…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 459
- Total comments
- 94
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-16 | Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc | xvilka | 8 | 0 |
| 2021-10-26 | Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc | nonfamous | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-01-23 | Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system built on PandocFirst breakout · Best thread | nonfamous | 234 | 33 |
| 2023-12-27 | Quarto: An open-source scientific and technical publishing system | sieste | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-02-14 | QuartoLatest 20+ point return | ustad | 205 | 61 |
| 2025-10-17 | Quarto: An open-source scientific and technical publishing system | doener | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-04-04 | Quarto: An open-source scientific and technical publishing system | ifh-hn | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-05-20 | Quarto: An open-source scientific and technical publishing system | Tomte | 1 | 0 |