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Title should probably be changed, since the article is about using AI to convert a PDF to semantic HTML.

>>urband+(OP)
A surprising problem I'm seeing with maintaining a link blog is that articles from it occasionally get submitted to Hacker News, where people inevitably call them out as not being as appropriate as the source they are linking to - which is fair enough! That's why I don't tend to submit them myself.

This particular post quickly turned into a very thinly veiled excuse for me to complain about PDFs, then demonstrate a Gemini Pro trick.

In this case I converted to HTML - I've since tried converting a paper to Markdown and sharing in a Gist, which I think worked even better: https://gist.github.com/simonw/46a33d66e069efe5c10b63625fdab... - notes here https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/27/distro/

>>simonw+c6
Have you seen gist.io?

If you replace `gist.github.com/<user>/<id>` -> `https://gist.io/@<user>/<id>`, you get a gist with nice typography.

https://gist.io/@simonw/46a33d66e069efe5c10b63625fdabb4e is the same gist you linked, but nicer to read

>>llimll+or
That's pretty neat! I like that it's run by a GitHub employee too (presumably as a side-project, but still) - makes me less nervous about the domain name blinking out of existence one day.