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Santhosh Thottingal

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Santhosh Thottingal's personal blog at thottingal.in covers programming and culture. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Santhosh Thottingal's blog for a 2026 post on complex scripts in terminals. A comment also credits him with extending Wikipedia's internationalization library. The comments do not assess the writing.

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.

Santhosh Thottingal's personal blog about language computing, typography, open source software, and technology. Posts on Malayalam language, typeface design, and software engineering.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-22
  2. Variable interpolatable smooth curves and outlines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. neilk · 2015-01-15
    Side note: as you might expect, Wikipedia's internationalization is the only system that attempts to do quantities and other formatting correctly for every goddamn language on the planet , but is considerably easier for translators to work with than the OP's examples (sorry, Sean ;) I did some work on bringing it to JavaScript and making it HTML-aware, and since then Santhosh Thottingal has vastly extended it and it…

    Comment linking /projects/js/jquery.i18n/demo/

    on “A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You”
  2. sthottingal · 2026-10-10

    Submitted What do MTEB scores mean, and how should you choose an embedding model? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. voidUpdate · 2026-04-01
    Yes, lots https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/22/complex-scripts-in-ter...

    Comment linking /blog/2026/03/22/complex-scripts-in-terminal/

    on “The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode”
  4. noufalibrahim · 2024-07-13

    Submitted Teaching AI in Schools as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. cokernel_hacker · 2026-02-25

    Submitted Variable interpolatable smooth curves and outlines as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. sthottingal · 2025-06-21

    Submitted WQ42: Grounding LLMs in Wikidata Facts via Tool Calling as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. anivar · 2011-08-20

    Submitted Current state of SVG Fonts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. sthottingal · 2026-03-29

    Submitted Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. sthottingal · 2026-03-22

    Submitted Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. sthottingal · 2026-02-27

    Submitted The Broken Token: Tokenization for Malayalam Language Models as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. sthottingal · 2026-02-20

    Submitted Variable interpolatable smooth curves and outlines as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. joice · 2020-09-22

    Submitted What is a good input method? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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