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Text editors, Markdown, markup, document formats, Unicode, and digital reading, editing, and authoring workflows.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
20262,105 stories
.name Termination↗ neil.fraser.name · HN · 547 comments · 2230 points · Sep 03, 2026
Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)↗ bento.page · HN · 239 comments · 1033 points · Jul 22, 2026
FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers↗ freeink.org · HN · 169 comments · 726 points · Jul 21, 2026
Your ePub Is fine↗ andreklein.net · HN · 308 comments · 919 points · Jun 14, 2026
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian↗ github.com · HN · 356 comments · 730 points · May 18, 2026
20251,973 stories
The <output> Tag↗ denodell.com · HN · 185 comments · 840 points · Oct 11, 2025
Just let me select text↗ aartaka.me · HN · 596 comments · 875 points · Sep 24, 2025
UTF-8 is a brilliant design↗ iamvishnu.com · HN · 348 comments · 849 points · Sep 12, 2025
Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor↗ breezepdf.com · HN · 182 comments · 791 points · May 03, 2025
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code↗ anthropic.com · HN · 963 comments · 2127 points · Feb 24, 2025
20241,736 stories
Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines↗ markwhen.com · HN · 98 comments · 912 points · Dec 01, 2024
Pluckable Strings↗ string.spiel.com · HN · 119 comments · 705 points · May 22, 2024
Pandoc↗ pandoc.org · HN · 292 comments · 824 points · Jan 28, 2024
Portable EPUBs↗ willcrichton.net · HN · 232 comments · 659 points · Jan 26, 2024
9 years of Apple text editor solo dev↗ papereditor.app · HN · 378 comments · 740 points · Jan 04, 2024
20231,355 stories
Text Editor: Data Structures↗ averylaird.com · HN · 79 comments · 268 points · Dec 26, 2023
Lab Notebooks (2020)↗ sambleckley.com · HN · 69 comments · 148 points · Dec 26, 2023
Ptext: A Nano-like text editor built with pure C↗ github.com · HN · 66 comments · 147 points · Dec 25, 2023
Xmas.c (1988)↗ udel.edu · HN · 95 comments · 559 points · Dec 23, 2023
Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers↗ heynote.com · HN · 303 comments · 1063 points · Dec 22, 2023
20221,556 stories
Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework↗ markdoc.io · HN · 147 comments · 810 points · May 11, 2022
U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow↗ ionathan.ch · HN · 295 comments · 659 points · Apr 13, 2022
Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax↗ github.com · HN · 219 comments · 983 points · Mar 29, 2022
Please put units in names↗ ruudvanasseldonk.com · HN · 594 comments · 1284 points · Mar 21, 2022
Zotero 6↗ zotero.org · HN · 190 comments · 768 points · Mar 17, 2022
20211,365 stories
Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files↗ obsidian.md · HN · 353 comments · 624 points · Oct 17, 2021
Understanding Awk↗ earthly.dev · HN · 118 comments · 599 points · Sep 30, 2021
Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go↗ obsidian.md · HN · 318 comments · 760 points · Jul 12, 2021
Helix: a post-modern modal text editor↗ helix-editor.com · HN · 365 comments · 657 points · Jun 01, 2021
Sublime Text 4↗ sublimetext.com · HN · 632 comments · 1436 points · May 21, 2021
20201,487 stories
Pandoc – A universal document converter↗ pandoc.org · HN · 168 comments · 756 points · Oct 24, 2020
ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper↗ remarkable.com · HN · 685 comments · 1410 points · Aug 27, 2020
Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing↗ zettlr.com · HN · 261 comments · 675 points · Jul 03, 2020
Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub↗ github.com · HN · 226 comments · 699 points · Jun 28, 2020
Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files↗ obsidian.md · HN · 477 comments · 1087 points · May 27, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

.name Termination↗ neil.fraser.name · HN · 547 comments · 2230 points · Sep 03, 2026
Typst makes big strides↗ lwn.net · HN · 33 comments · 131 points · Sep 25, 2026
Markdown in /src↗ htmx.org · HN · 99 comments · 155 points · Sep 21, 2026
UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8↗ utf-8000.jb2170.com · HN · 122 comments · 134 points · Sep 20, 2026
Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web↗ markdown.beauty · HN · 51 comments · 68 points · Sep 27, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

.name Termination↗ neil.fraser.name · HN · 547 comments · 2230 points · Sep 03, 2026
Fine, I'll build my own text editor↗ dbushell.com · HN · 263 comments · 263 points · Sep 01, 2026
Markdown in /src↗ htmx.org · HN · 99 comments · 155 points · Sep 21, 2026
UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8↗ utf-8000.jb2170.com · HN · 122 comments · 134 points · Sep 20, 2026
Typst makes big strides↗ lwn.net · HN · 33 comments · 131 points · Sep 25, 2026
Unified Arabic↗ worksthatwork.com · HN · 51 comments · 110 points · Sep 02, 2026
Base84 deserves a place in file names↗ 00f.net · HN · 62 comments · 77 points · Sep 11, 2026
Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web↗ markdown.beauty · HN · 51 comments · 68 points · Sep 27, 2026
Knap – Turn Data into Markdown↗ knap.md · HN · 3 comments · 45 points · Sep 10, 2026
Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers↗ txt.hellman.io · HN · 39 comments · 43 points · Sep 11, 2026

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