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Humus numericus

Personal blog · blog.nozav.orgprogramming

Humus numericus is a personal blog at blog.nozav.org about programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Updated tangotango emacs color theme”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Humus numericus for its Emacs 'tangotango' color theme and for screenshots of Emacs org-mode and LaTeX editing setups. Commenters frame it as a way to make text editing look better.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Updated tangotango emacs color theme
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-09-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. rjprins · 2011-03-31Recommends
    I prefer the emacs color-theme 'tangotango': http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-ema...

    Comment linking /post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-emacs-color-theme

    on “Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators”
  2. Submitted Updated tangotango emacs color theme as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. What is your definition of "word processor"? Emacs + auctex? Emacs + orgmode? Words are text. Do you feel better if section headings are bigger and take up more space than the text you are supposed to be working on: latex: https://i.stack.imgur.com/etFst.png org-mode: http://blog.nozav.org/public/images/tangotango_org.png org-mode with pd preview: http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/lsYdK0C2RvQ/maxresdefault.jpg Or is emacs excl…

    Comment linking /public/images/tangotango_org.png

    on “The Command-Line Office”
  4. almost · 2010-12-30Recommends
    Here's an awesome theme: http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-ema...

    Comment linking /post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-emacs-color-theme

    on “GNU Emacs Theme Generator (beta)”

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