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Peter Krautzberger
Personal blog · peterkrautzberger.orgwebmath
Peter Krautzberger's personal blog at peterkrautzberger.org covers web and math. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “MathML is a failed web standard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post in discussions of MathML on the web. One commenter cites it while arguing that MathML is a dead standard, with incomplete and buggy browser support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- MathML is a failed web standard4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-04-07
What Hacker News says?
No it doesn't, it renders it as a bunch of spans. MathML is basically a dead standard for the web - browsers either don't support it or support is incomplete and with bugs which makes it useless. https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0186/
Comment linking /0186/
on “Filament: Physically-based rendering engine”Submitted MathML is a failed web standard as a story · 247 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013) as a story · 204 points
HN discussionSubmitted MathML is a failed web standard (2016) as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MathML is a failed web standard as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
