Hacker News: leephillips

New Batteries That Store Blistering Heat Are Taking Off

leephillips — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:10:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/climate/heat-battery-thermal-energy-storage.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289349

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Studies violate policies on collaboration between editors and authors

leephillips — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:12:42 +0000

Article URL: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/10/22/editorcheck-handling-editors-authors-collaboration-plos-mdpi-joint-conference-digital-libraries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225357

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Replacing PyTorch with Julia and Reactant: One Year In

leephillips — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://csvance.dev/posts/2026-10-22-reactant-end-to-end/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200433

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Gnome OS Preview

leephillips — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:07:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/10/16/gnome-os-preview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141740

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Expedia Amazoned Hotel Rooms

leephillips — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:49:47 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/15/enshittipedia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122686

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

Hacker News: An Apology

leephillips — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:17:48 +0000

Article URL: https://lee-phillips.org/byeHN/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965219

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

leephillips — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:49:06 +0000

Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912792

Points: 305

# Comments: 59

An unexpected difference between terminal programs: backward line wrapping

leephillips — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:35 +0000

Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TerminalsLineBackspaceDifferences

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909114

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by leephillips in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

leephillips — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:22:21 +0000

Vim does things at least as bad. Here’s something I wrote in 2020 that shows how the default Vim configuration can overwrite files created outside of Vim and cause autobuild systems to fail: https://lee-phillips.org/badvim/

And why my .vimrc starts with this:

    set nobackup
    set nowritebackup 
    set noundofile
    set noswapfile

New comment by leephillips in "Typst makes big strides"

leephillips — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:42:03 +0000

I was maybe too hasty here. Another comment made me realize that the difference is due to the presence of the Latin Modern font on my desktop and its absence from my phone. Sorry, mobile browsers. You still suck, but less energetically than I had concluded.

So authors using MathML should supply the LM font for download or advise their readers.

New comment by leephillips in "Typst makes big strides"

leephillips — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:37:40 +0000

Ah, I (the article author) am at fault here, for not pointing this out. Things looked fine in my testing because I have the LM font installed on my system.

New comment by leephillips in "Typst makes big strides"

leephillips — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:08:54 +0000

I don’t have the data to answer your question. But I’d like to point out that it has little to do with my assertions. Note in particular the word “conveys”.

New comment by leephillips in "Typst makes big strides"

leephillips — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:53:54 +0000

Not so good. But the problem is not Typst, it’s Chrome on Android, or the way you have that configured.

EDIT: I just checked the article on my phone, and every browser renders the equation as in your screenshot. FF and Chromium on desktop are perfect. Another example of how mobile browsers suck.

New comment by leephillips in "Typst makes big strides"

leephillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:12:01 +0000

PDF serves an important purpose; it’s not an abomination. It conveys exactly what the author or publisher intended. HTML can not do this. It can serve as a reliable archive and be made (imperfectly) accessible, as described in the article. Of course all this comes with significant tradeoffs, including reduced interoperability, as you say. But there are good reasons for academic publishing, especially in math, CS, and physics (but also in some areas of the humanities) to prefer PDFs—it’s not just obstinacy.

New comment by leephillips in "Typst makes big strides"

leephillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:35:04 +0000

Interesting. What browser? Because in FF or Chrome on Linux desktop, it looks basically identical to LaTeX output. But unlike when creating PDFs, you’re at the mercy of your browser’s MathML implementation (another reason PDF is great).

New comment by leephillips in "Typst makes big strides"

leephillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:52:33 +0000

Not the person you’re asking, but I’ll just mention that pandoc has a Typst reader. I use a pandoc filter to write in markdown with math in Typst and convert to LaTeX:

https://lee-phillips.org/typstfilters/

New comment by leephillips in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

leephillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:00:21 +0000

I see your point; you did say “only desktop”.

Typst makes big strides

leephillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1092993/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846640

Points: 132

# Comments: 34

New comment by leephillips in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

leephillips — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:39:19 +0000

I use dwm. It seems to be able to handle tiled and floating windows with no problem.

Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references

leephillips — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:49:14 +0000

Article URL: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/editors-of-higher-education-journal-coauthor-editorial-with-fake-references/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803259

Points: 2

# Comments: 0