Novellas with Groff
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- Points111
- Comments49
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#14Peak rank
2Days on list
123Score · 7d
Nov 1, 2026First seen
Rank · 7 days
On Hacker News
- Points
- 111
- Comments
- 49
- Submitted by
- dverlaeckt80
- Posted
- Nov 1, 2026
- Site
- movq.de
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Trending history
Novellas with Groff was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 1, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 67 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #14 of 30, reached on Nov 2, 03:07 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 2, 06:52 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
Rank history
Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).
Last 14 days
Best rank per day (UTC).
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14
Oct 26today
Metric history
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Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News · Front page | #14 | 2 | 67 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest Novellas with groff | same link | |||
From the discussion
A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.
I think it’s fascinating to see all the different ways that techfolk who write fiction set up their writing pipelines. Some people go with a bare-bones coding editor like Vim; others use “pro” tools Scrivener. And then there’s the typesetting pipeline. Using troff is pretty out there. When I started writing fiction,…
I typeset some university work in troff in 1994. The professor I submitted it to was impressed but questioned my sanity in front of half of the class. Not wrong to do so. Might still have the source code to that work somewhere. And it probably still parses. Can't remember why I did it but on reflection it might…
Fwiw I wrote a bunch of my college papers on a version of Roff originally written by Col. G. L. Sicherman for CP/M, which I ported to Turbo C for the obsolete-when-I-got-it MSDOS laptop that I had back then. I ran that program under x64 Linux much more recently and it still worked after I ripped out some DOS stuff,…
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Questions
Is Novellas with Groff trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 2, 06:52 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Novellas with Groff reached?
#14 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 2, 03:07 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Novellas with Groff been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 1, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (67 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
111 points and 49 comments; submitted by dverlaeckt80 on Nov 1, 2026.