Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 334 posts.

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LaTeX Tooling Guide

I'll let you in on a small secret: I hate LaTeX with a passion. It's a bloated mess with crazy syntax. It generates reams of warnings you can never totally get rid of, and some of the most confusing and/or unhelpeful errors I have ever seen. It needs to be run N times in a row. It even has a stupid name.