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I made something similar once, specifically targetted for guitar tablature https://tabviewer.app/ To make links shorter for sharing with others, I use a shortlink service. Pasting URLs of thousands of characters long can be problematic

Wow funny I‘m just seeing this after posting my tab editor in another comment. I have the same use case as you :)

https://github.com/planbnet/guitartabs


What about work horses?

It’s something about messing with reality. Obviously I can’t know this since (as far as I know) I am not a rat, but I have to believe it’s profoundly disorienting for their little rat brains to interact with VR. At least a work horse can trust its senses.

Can you give an actual counterargument?


This doesn't seem like a topic to ask about on hacker news. Also, your grammar is confusing to the point I don't exactly know what the question is.


I agree. It would also work out like a long term supervised learning process though. Humans showing how it's really done, and AI companies taking that as a gold standard for training and development of AI.


I'm not so sure. There's already decades of data available for the existing process.


That is true, but it doesn't help for new languages, frameworks, etc



Sad that we missed 2024 esepcially since the 2023 guy explicitly asked for it. Second comment predicted 2026 for a next post--missed it by a month!


I’m so glad this was reposted as I haven’t seen it before and I love it!


Cool. I hadn't seen it or knew about it until this 2025 post.


I'm surprised Pandoc markdown is not mentioned. You can make that semi structured quite easily, and write your own transformations using lua. It's powerful enough to write math papers and export into both pdf and html.


Pandoc is great for resumes too. My static website turns my pandoc resume into pdf and html and they look great


I use Unicode to type math, which is the closest you can get in plain text to what you see in the rendered output. The latex package unicodemath is amazing. As a bonus you can paste the code in chat applications when communicating with peers.


This works surprisingly well. If you look into enough dark corners of Unicode, it turns out that you can do a shocking amount of typography, going far beyond the obvious italics and bolds: https://gwern.net/utext

In fact, I found that writing as much math as possible in Unicode makes for the best HTML reading experience: it's fast, simple, and looks more natural (avoids font inconsistency and line-height jagginess, among other things). https://gwern.net/design-graveyard#mathjax

And if you find writing Unicode yourself a pain, you can just ask a LLM to translate from LaTeX to Unicode! https://github.com/gwern/gwern.net/blob/master/build/latex2u...


Regarding typing latex vs unicode, I use WinCompose/XCompose with a list of bindings that include most latex symbols. So instead of \cup I'd type <compose>cup

For reference, here is my personal (still evolving) .XCompose https://github.com/chtenb/dotfiles/blob/master/.XCompose


In Haskell with `head (sort list)` the entire list does not have to be sorted, depending on the sort implementation. Everything is lazy, so sort can sort the list just enough to return the smallest element.


Going beyond laziness, a compiler that can understand and exploit equations, could use `head (sort list) = smallest (list)` to make the program more efficient, going from O(n * log n) to O(n) complexity.


I think the older programmer was hinting at gauss's formula with the summing 1 to 10 without using a loop? Recursion is also a loop in some sense.


Yep; the submitted article is just pedestrian with lots of posturing and pretty language to sell it. There is nothing of Programming/Mathematics/Erlang in it to deserve the upvotes.

Some of the comments here are far more informative.


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