asddubsFeb 2026Recommends
You might enjoy this video: ▶ this video The connection to knuth is tangential to the actual video subject, but it does contrast knuth to LLMs as a framing device
in “The Tears of Donald Knuth” · View on HN
Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2024–2026.
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Tom 7's pilot episode of a series that plays with type systems and absurd programming, presented as a parody of the GPL v3 license. It mixes a typesetting experiment with a long, story-driven intro on the origin of TeX. Source code and papers are linked from the author's site.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN readers point to it as an example of Tom7's ridiculous-but-brilliant programming projects, here tied to license parody and typesetting.
- people recommended it
- 4
- separate months
- 3
- strong recommendations
- 0
- discussed on HN
- 2024–2026
“this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story”
What HN commenters said
7 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
progvalOct 2025Recommends
If you want more of this: ▶ this video . You can skip to 7:45 if the long intro bores you, but it's worth listening to it.
in “Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD"” · View on HN
josephgJun 2024Recommends
This was made by Tom7, who has many amazing videos about doing ridiculous things with programming on YouTube. The talk on this work is here: ▶ this video
in “GNU Justified Public License” · View on HN
jimmySixDOFJun 2024Recommends
and for anyone in the TeX User Group there is this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story ▶ this video
in “LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer” · View on HN
btownAug 2024Cites it
That said, if Tom7 wasn’t meticulous about typesetting all his results, we would never have been blessed with ▶ this video
in “Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]” · View on HN
LukeShuJun 2024Cites it
This should not have "(2007)" in the title; 2007 is the date of the GPL v3, which this is a 2024 mimicry of (as explained in ▶ this video ).
in “GNU Justified Public License” · View on HN
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JadeNBJun 2024Cites it
Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most beautiful ____", the voice-over says "This is the most beautiful ____"? ▶ this video (I'm not sure if it's also an error, or part of the joke, or if it just parses in a way that I can't accomplish on my own, that the text before the video reads "Way three (recommended) is to sit back and bathe in the 4k, 60Hz flashing lights that are Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) is the newest installment in the Main Sequence:".)
in “Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)” · View on HN
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Satire & parodyProgramming language designGraphic design & typographytom7type systemstexgpl parodytypesetting