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Nutrient
Company blog · pspdfkit.com/blogprogrammingweb
Nutrient is the company blog at pspdfkit.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 51 different Hacker News readers have linked it 176 times, most often “Calculator.PDF (even works in Google Chrome)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 39 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link PSPDFKit's blog as a reference on PDF internals, WebAssembly performance and floating-point math. The company also appears often in hiring threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 39 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Integrate high-performance PDF viewing, editing, signing, and processing into any application with cross-platform and native SDKs for web, mobile, and server.
Most-linked posts?
- Calculator.PDF (even works in Google Chrome)4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-10-31
- Marzipan: Porting iOS Apps to the Mac3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-20
- Understanding Fast-Math3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-08
- A Pragmatic Approach to Cross-Platform3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-13
- WebAssembly: A New Hope2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-08-09
- /api/documentation/deployment-options/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-17
- Our Attempt at Rewriting PSPDFKit Catalog in SwiftUI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-15
- Swifty Objective-C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-26
- PSPDFKit for iOS: Render PDFs Faster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-01
- Our Journey to ARM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-07
What Hacker News says?
PSPDFKit | Senior Frontend Engineer | Vienna, Austria, EU or REMOTE UTC +- 5 hours We're looking to hire an experienced web developer to join our team working on PSPDFKit for Web. PSPDFKit is the leading PDF framework on iOS, it's used by Dropbox, IBM and Evernote, and we want PSPDFKit for Web to match and surpass that level. PSPDFKit for Web is a ES2016+ React project, using Flow type annotations, Redux and Immutab…
Comment linking /blog/2016/hiring-a-distributed-team/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted A Real-World WebAssembly Benchmark as a story · 243 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | JavaScript, Elixir PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their Android and iOS apps. In December 2016 we released PSPDFKit for Web - you can see it in action here: https://web-preview.pspdfkit.com In July we released PSPDFKit for We…
Comment linking /jobs/senior-frontend-web-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted What’s Hiding in Your PDF? as a story · 216 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | JavaScript, React, Elixir PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their Android and iOS apps. PSPDFKit for Web is our youngest product - you can see it in action here: https://web-preview.pspdfkit.com Last year we released PSPDFKit fo…
Comment linking /jobs/senior-frontend-web-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted WebAssembly: A New Hope as a story · 199 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | C++ PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their Android and iOS apps. We offer native APIs per platform - all driven by our large, shared C++ core. https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2016/a-pragmatic-approach-to-cross... C++ is used everywhe…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Marzipan: Porting iOS Apps to the Mac as a story · 192 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | JavaScript, Elixir PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their Android and iOS apps. In December 2016 we released PSPDFKit for Web - you can see it in action here: https://web-preview.pspdfkit.com In July we released PSPDFKit for We…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Benefits of a Monorepo as a story · 142 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit ( https://pspdfkit.com ) | Frontent Web Engineer; iOS Engineer; Support Engineer PSPDFKit is a remote company building SDKs for document display (PDF + Images). We are on all platforms (even Windows) and used by basically all cloud storage providers. Modern React-based tech stack on the Web SDK. Also lots of C++. Interesting challenges since we not only want to design a great product, but also an easy-to-un…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted The C++ Lifetime Profile: How It Plans to Make C++ Code Safer as a story · 122 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | JavaScript, Elixir PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their Android and iOS apps. PSPDFKit for Web is our youngest product - you can see it in action here: https://web-preview.pspdfkit.com Last year we released PSPDFKit for Web S…
Comment linking /jobs/frontend-web-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy as a story · 121 points
HN discussionApparently "Apple’s Core Graphics framework uses the PDF format for its internal vector graphics presentation." https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/apple-and-pdf-history/
Comment linking /blog/2020/apple-and-pdf-history/
on “Preview, the Mac app people forget about”Submitted Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions as a story · 119 points
HN discussion> Doesn't negate the whole advantage of speed for WASM? Well, here's a benchmark of asm.js JavaScript versus WebAssembly in a real world application: https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/a-real-world-webassembly-benc... The WebAssembly version outperforms the asm.js version.
Comment linking /blog/2018/a-real-world-webassembly-benchmark/
on “Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?”Submitted Understanding Fast-Math as a story · 78 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | Elixir We’re looking to hire a backend developer to join our team working on PSPDFKit for Web ( https://pspdfkit.com/pdf-sdk/web/ ). We are building a modern PDF SDK with technologies like Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and WebAssembly. Your role as a backend engineer will be to implement new features, improve the reliance of our server component, and work on scalability problems…
Comment linking /careers/backend-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted An Introduction to LLDB Reproducers as a story · 27 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE (UTC+-3) | Full-time | JavaScript, Elixir PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their apps. You see our product in action here: https://web-examples.pspdfkit.com We also have a version that runs completely in the browser using WebAssembly: https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2017…
Comment linking /careers/frontend-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted The State of Progressive Web Apps in 2020 as a story · 14 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | JavaScript, Elixir PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their Android and iOS apps. PSPDFKit for Web is our youngest product - you can see it in action here: https://web-preview.pspdfkit.com Last year we released PSPDFKit for Web S…
Comment linking /jobs/frontend-web-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted WebAssembly Startup Time Optimization for Apps as a story · 13 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | Elixir We’re looking to hire a backend engineer to join our team working on PSPDFKit for Web ( https://pspdfkit.com/pdf-sdk/web/ ). We are building a modern PDF SDK with technologies like Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and WebAssembly. Your role as a backend engineer will be to implement new features, improve the reliance of our server component, and work on scalability problems i…
Comment linking /jobs/backend-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted Smoother Interactions on the Web Using getCoalescedEvents as a story · 12 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | JavaScript, Elixir PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We’re trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their Web, Android and iOS apps. For the last few years, we’ve been working PSPDFKit for Web - you can see it in action here: https://web-examples.pspdfkit.com . We ship PSPDF…
Comment linking /blog/2017/webassembly-a-new-hope/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)”Submitted Optimizing WebAssembly Startup Time as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPSPDFKit ➡ Remote ➡ Full Time We (bootstrapped and proud) build the leading PDF Framework for iOS and will launch an Android version soon. Dropbox and Evernote (also IBM & SAP) are just some of the companies that use our framework in their Apps. Our headquarters is in Vienna, Austria, but our team can be found all over the world in places like Raleigh, Hamburg, Ljubljana, Kiev, Mexico City, and Berlin. We are commit…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)”Submitted Calculator.PDF (even works in Google Chrome) as a story · 6 points
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