Ask HN: How are you using Markdown files these days?

2•fred_terzi•8mo ago

I am now using markdown daily for my AI paired programming, and more and more I see every site and tool using it.

How are you using it?

Comments

sigwinch•8mo ago

It’s a fine interchange format and I prefer it from my ripgrep preprocessor as opposed to text.

fred_terzi•8mo ago

can you explain more what you mean by that? I'm curious what the use case is.

sigwinch•8mo ago

To diff or even just page through a bag of arbitrary documents, there are a bunch of content extractors which helpfully target clean Markdown.

For anything more elaborate, my main competitor to Markdown is the Pandoc internal representation.

mmarian•8mo ago

Using markdown for the content on my blog site built with Astro. Don't have to think about hosting a backend, it's statically-built.

Show HN: A unique twist on Tetris and block puzzle

The logs I never read

How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop

Show HN: LinkScope – Real-Time UART Analyzer Using ESP32-S3 and PC GUI

Cppsp v1.4.5–custom pattern-driven, nested, namespace-scoped templates

The next frontier in weight-loss drugs: one-time gene therapy

At Age 25, Wikipedia Refuses to Evolve

Show HN: ReviewReact – AI review responses inside Google Maps ($19/mo)

Why AlphaTensor Failed at 3x3 Matrix Multiplication: The Anchor Barrier

Ask HN: How much of your token use is fixing the bugs Claude Code causes?

Show HN: Agents – Sync MCP Configs Across Claude, Cursor, Codex Automatically

Hello

FSD helped save my father's life during a heart attack

Show HN: Writtte – Draft and publish articles without reformatting, anywhere

Portuguese icon (FROM A CAN) makes a simple meal (Canned Fish Files) [video]

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

Transcribe your aunts post cards with Gemini 3 Pro

.72% Variance Lance

ReKindle – web-based operating system designed specifically for E-ink devices

Encrypt It

NextMatch – 5-minute video speed dating to reduce ghosting

Personalizing esketamine treatment in TRD and TRBD

SpaceKit.xyz – a browser‑native VM for decentralized compute

NotebookLM: The AI that only learns from you

Show HN: An open-source starter kit for developing with Postgres and ClickHouse

Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users

Apache Poison Fountain

Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

Google in Your Terminal