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Karthinks
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Karthinks is a personal blog at karthinks.com about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Avy Can Do Anything”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his Emacs and Vim posts, especially on LaTeX note-taking, Avy and Embark, as practical guides to editing and workflow.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where I collect notes. Sometimes you have to write to be able to think.
Most-linked posts?
- Avy Can Do Anything6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-12-02
- LaTeX Input for Impatient Scholars6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-06
- Batteries included with Emacs (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-18
- Ways to use Embark (2021)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-06
- Different Strokes for Different Folks (2023)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-25
- The Emacs Window Management Almanac2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-11
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of Avy on emacs. https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/
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on “Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse”Submitted Batteries included with Emacs (2020) as a story · 395 points
HN discussionIt's pretty easy, actually. First, install the plugin, I use this with elpaca: ``` (use-package latex :ensure nil :hook (LaTeX-mode . TeX-fold-mode) ;; I don't use a lot the fold, but it's useful (LaTeX-mode . turn-on-reftex) ;; For biblatex (LaTeX-mode . LaTeX-math-mode) ;; For inserting math symbols, altough I think cdlatex is better (LaTeX-mode . outline-minor-mode) ;; If you use outline to surf throughout the bu…
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on “Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX”Submitted The Emacs Window Management Almanac as a story · 198 points
HN discussion> Anyone who says AI is useless never had to do the old method of cobbling together git and ffmpeg commands from StackOverflow answers. These days, I'm more likely to read the manual pages and take notes on interesting bits. If I'm going to rely on some tooling for some time, dedicating a few hours of reading is a good trade-off for me. No need to even remember everything, just the general way it solves the problem.…
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on “Does current AI represent a dead end?”Submitted Avy Can Do Anything as a story · 168 points
HN discussionif you use emacs: https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch...
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on “How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)”Submitted LaTeX Input for Impatient Scholars as a story · 70 points
HN discussionhttps://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch... Closest guide I’ve read and used.
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on “How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)”Submitted Emacs: Fringe Matters, Finding the Right Difference as a story · 43 points
HN discussionFor those wondering how to accomplish something similar with Emacs: https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch... It does not cover creating figures, though.
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on “How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)”Submitted Ways to use Embark (2021) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionNot OP but I have switched to using rx macro for everything and I never miss regex. I miss rx instead everywhere else. Here are couple of blog posts someone might find useful: https://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-... https://karthinks.com/software/bridging-islands-in-emacs-1/
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on “Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language”Submitted Batteries Included with Emacs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSomething similar for Emacs, inspired by this Vim method: https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch... Not my field, but I find it interesting to see how it is possible to optimize one environment for specific tasks.
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on “Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)”Submitted Integrating LLMs and Emacs with Gptel as a story · 4 points
HN discussion3. https://karthinks.com/software/emacs-window-management-alman... (Additional useful knowledge)
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on “Native frame transposition coming to Emacs 31”Submitted More Batteries Included with Emacs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://karthinks.com/software/fifteen-ways-to-use-embark/
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on “VS Code Org Mode”Submitted Batteries Included with Emacs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDefinitely not it's purpose. Avy can be used to select a word, line, or region. One action is move to it. But it can also, in it's own words, copy, yank, zap to, transpose, teleport, kill, mark, ispell, org-refile, and custom actions. https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/
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on “Editing Code in Emacs”Submitted Different Strokes for Different Folks (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think I found the following one a few weeks ago. Working my way through it. I'm usually a Vim user on Linux. https://karthinks.com/software/batteries-included-with-emacs...
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on “A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)”Submitted Even More Batteries Included with Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionfor emacs users https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-sch...
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on “LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking”Submitted Cool Your Heels, Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA simple Emacs imitation for eshell: https://karthinks.com/software/jumping-directories-in-eshell
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on “Z – Jump around”Submitted Emacs: Fifteen Different Ways to Use Embark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am still trying to wrap my head around how this works. It sounds like it is similar to avy[1] but you use your voice instead of the keyboard? Coupled with some AST aware commands. [1] https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/
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on “Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso”Submitted Different Strokes for Different Folks as a story · 1 points
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