Hacker Fables
A satirical cyberpunk novel you can read as a man page
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The project is entirely open source. It takes a single Pandoc Markdown source file and produces HTML, EPUB, PDF, man pages, GNU Info, an audiobook, an HTML-integrated audio player that highlights the content as it plays, and an MP4 output for the "video audiobook."It's generic enough to be reusable. I plan to use the pipeline for my tech blog later on.The novella contains a lot of programming lore. It's an over-the-top love letter to the old-school Linux programmer and to the craft itself.Source code: https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/hacker-fables
HN · launched Jul 30, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 60%) · 0 views
Niche: digital publishing and reading platforms · 122 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is an automated Pandoc build pipeline orchestrating existing open-source tools (Pandoc, TTS, FFmpeg) to generate multiple publication formats from Markdown.
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Launched 266 days after the earliest competitor.
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