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New comment by bastscho in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

bastscho — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:48:05 +0000

I always feel my hunger disappearing when I see ai generated images of food. I lose all appetite. The pictures never look appetizing. Sometimes I even feel like it is illegal to look at them, as if I look at something so unnatural my body warns me to look away.

Show HN: Mdpdf a 2k line C CLI to convert Markdown to tiny PDFs

bastscho — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:33:52 +0000

I have always searched for a simple tool which can convert a MD document to a well styled small PDF, just like a GitHub Readme.

This was inspired by TinyPDF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316968

I also used this project to get familiar with agentic coding, which I had dreaded before.

mdpdf supports:

- using the included PDF fonts to generate tiny valid PDFs

- outputs as A4 or Letter depending on your locale

- plenty of common MD syntax: code blocks, inline code, lists, tables, and jpg and png images

That's it. It covers probably most of the use cases and can help to simply convert a Markdown write-up to a PDF to share.

GitHub: https://github.com/schicho/mdpdf

A simple make call should build it for you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705802

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New comment by bastscho in "The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3"

bastscho — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:00:25 +0000

It's not a mystery per se.

It's explained exceptionally well here [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/p8u_k2LIZyo?si=loEDS5hPcRGWXk0E