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Jon Reeve
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Jon Reeve writes Jonathan Reeve: Computational Literary Analysis, a personal blog at jonreeve.com about writing and productivity. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts argue that PDFs, LaTeX and pagination belong on paper rather than the Web, and one commenter links a related post. Another comment discusses a Show HN vividness analysis without naming this blog.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Unless you're the kind of person to print out physical copies of web pages (and I suspect OP may be one of these people), there's no reason to use LaTeX. Pagination is for paper, not screens. Thus, PDFs, LaTex, and companions, have no place on the Web. [I wrote about this recently here.]( https://jonreeve.com/2021/05/stop-making-pdfs/ )
Comment linking /2021/05/stop-making-pdfs/
on “Web4 Should Run on LaTeX”Submitted Notetaking in Semantic Triples as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI don't think this is about "protect[ing] language from being captured by formal analysis", it's about calling out bogus analysis when you see it. This "vividness" analysis is bogus for two reasons: (1) The idea that individual words have objectively different levels of "vividness" completely divorced from context (when and where the novel was written, which character is speaking, etc.) is extremely debatable; (2) T…
Comment linking /2016/07/paradise-lost-macroetymology/
on “Show HN: Five Thousand Novels, Ranked by Vividness”Submitted Isolating Literary Style with Raymond Queneau as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Automated My Weekly Response Papers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion