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sqrtminusone.xyz is a personal blog at sqrtminusone.xyz about programming and productivity. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Replacing Jupyter Notebook with Org Mode”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on Emacs and Org-mode, such as an Org-Python post with an Emacs screenshot. The few comments are brief and do not discuss the writing in depth.

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.

Freedom is a state of mind

Most-linked posts?

  1. Replacing Jupyter Notebook with Org Mode
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. I don't get the argument for using web technologies to complicate this process. What does this added complexity solve? If anything, it slows the process and remove much needed features like auto-completions, snippets, and extensions. Also, it makes collaboration harder, since, most likely, others aren't familiar with your setup. You only need to setup one environment once and use it forever with minor incremental im…

    Comment linking /posts/2021-05-01-org-python/

    on “Reactive HTML Notebooks”
  2. Submitted Replacing Jupyter Notebook with Org Mode as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Maybe this would interest you: https://sqrtminusone.xyz/posts/2021-05-01-org-python/ (the very first screenshot is Emacs)

    Comment linking /posts/2021-05-01-org-python/

    on “The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)”
  4. Submitted 916 Days of Emacs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Declarative filesystem management with Emacs and Org Mode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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