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(car nil)
Personal blog · lepisma.xyz · on HN as lepismaprogrammingai
(car nil) is a personal blog at lepisma.xyz about programming and ai. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on customizing Org mode in Emacs to look like a styled book, as an example of Emacs eye candy and a "book view" that others point to when customizing their own setup.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-10
What Hacker News says?
Debates have worked good for me while learning something new: https://lepisma.xyz/2024/10/19/interventional-debates-for-st... I believe there are researches on this too.
Comment linking /2024/10/19/interventional-debates-for-studying-gray-topics/index.html
on “Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself”Submitted Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs as a story · 127 points
HN discussionObligatory paste, looking so so good : https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/ Not what I need for todos, but a nice "book view".
Comment linking /2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/
on “Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)”Submitted Fancy Little Lisp λs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWith some configuration it is possible to _work_ with these styles while editing in Org mode, including the use of variable-width fonts, inline images and formulas, etc. The configuration[1] describes an exemplary process. It is also possible to tweak the Org mode export mechanism to modify its structural markup to fit projects such as Tufte CSS[2][3]. What the article doesn't explicitly mention is that #+HTML_HEAD:…
Comment linking /2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/
on “Prettifying Org Mode with CSS”Submitted Web Chatbots Should Just Be Assistive Technologies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey, author here. Didn't notice this came up on HN. I wrote a small follow up trying to write and speak at the same time here https://lepisma.xyz/journal/2024/09/13/can-i-output-two-stre...
Comment linking /journal/2024/09/13/can-i-output-two-streams-of-text/index.html
on “Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs”Submitted Roles in a System as a story · 1 points
HN discussioncustomized like this https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/ or like this https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs
Comment linking /2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/
on “Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs”one day I have to rebuild this... https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/
Comment linking /2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/
on “Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?”Working on the sides to build a completely private and on-device Personal Health Records app. More context https://lepisma.xyz/2026/02/24/harp/
Comment linking /2026/02/24/harp/
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)”I'm still most in awe with this book-style org one: https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/index.html
Comment linking /2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/index.html
on “My Emacs eye candy”