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Check my working is a personal blog at checkmyworking.com about programming and math. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-04, 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 site for its MathJax bookmarklet, which renders LaTeX and MathML on any web page, and for its web-font demo of TeX-style typesetting.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- /misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-20
What Hacker News says?
Alternative: have a mathjax bookmarklet :) https://www.checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/
Comment linking /misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/
on “Why isn't everything normally distributed?”Submitted Thinkserver: My web-based coding environment as a story · 242 points
HN discussion> Hard to see without latex typing... MathJax to the rescue: \[\alpha^{n-2}(\alpha^2-6\alpha-2)=0=\alpha^{n}-6\alpha^{n-1}-2\alpha^{n-2}\] To render with MathJax, use the bookmarklet available here: http://checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/
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on “The IIT Entrance Exam”Submitted Using Computer Modern on the web (2013) as a story · 94 points
HN discussionI was surprised by the Khinchin–Lévy constant. For almost any real number, if you take the sequence of convergents of its continued fraction, $\frac{p_1}{q_1}$, $\frac{p_2}{q_2}$, ..., this is true: \[\lim_{n \to \infty}{q_n}^{1/n}=e^{\pi^2/(12\ln2)}\] The number on the right is called the Khinchin–Lévy constant. You can use MathJax to render the LaTeX in this comment with the bookmarklet available here: http://chec…
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on “What Is the Most Surprising Result in Mathematics?”Submitted Computer Modern on the Web as a story · 67 points
HN discussionLooking at https://checkmyworking.com/cm-web-fonts/ with firefox on macos, it doesn't look like the kerning is quite right. In "consectetur" there is too much space between the 't' and 'e'. I don't know enough about font formats, but is something lost when translating from metafont to ttf? Is there something specific about how TeX kerns fonts that hasn't been copied ^W ported to web browsers?
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on “Typesetting the LaTeX Way (2013)”Submitted Pattern-matching syntax trees as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere's a bookmarklet that renders Tex/LaTeX, MathML and AsciiMathML notation on pages dynamically using the MathJax. I use it mainly with feedbin. It works most of the time https://www.checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/
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on “Ask HN: How do you RSS?”Submitted My development PC's homepage lists all the servers I'm running as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turn your Slinky into a Klein Bottle as a story · 2 points
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