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Brian Cantoni

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Brian Cantoni writes Cantoni.org, a personal blog at cantoni.org about programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post on converting HTML to Markdown with Pandoc, including a command-line pipeline. Both comments cite the post as a Pandoc reference, without judging its writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /2019/01/27/converting-html-markdown-using-pandoc
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Pandoc http://www.cantoni.org/2019/01/27/converting-html-markdown-u...

    Comment linking /2019/01/27/converting-html-markdown-using-pandoc

    on “Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI”
  2. Submitted List of Tech Advent Calendars – 2014 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. curl --silent https://example.com/foo.html | pandoc --from html --to markdown_strict -o foo.md From Converting HTML to Markdown using Pandoc http://www.cantoni.org/2019/01/27/converting-html-markdown-u...

    Comment linking /2019/01/27/converting-html-markdown-using-pandoc

    on “Ask HN: CLI tool to download webpages and convert to Markdown?”

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