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Re:Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:48AM (#49018619)
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

https://github.com/schicho/mdpdf

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=46316968I 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...

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It's not a mystery per se.

It's explained exceptionally well here [0].

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