{"slug": "myst", "name": "MyST", "category": "notes", "category_name": "Notes and knowledge", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.769, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-11-22", "latest": "2026-10-29", "why": "The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 0, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "mystmd.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://mystmd.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["MyST", "Myst"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 804619232, "item_id": 50288702, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288702", "by": "runningmike", "date": "2026-10-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Writing markdown and so also MyST[1] is the complex problem", "excerpt": "Full title: \"Building a MyST authoring environment to identify things that MyST core could improve\" Great to see this! Writing markdown and so also MyST[1] is the complex problem for many years between WYSIWYG and typesetting systems. Many tried. Many failed..Latex and Typst are still alive. [1] https://mystmd.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building a Myst Authoring Environment"}, {"id": 772115265, "item_id": 48257204, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257204", "by": "WillAdams", "date": "2026-05-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "One might argue that _Myst_, or at least its predecessor _The Manhole_", "excerpt": "One amazing implementation of that sort of thing was the \"Leonardo\" CD-ROM presentation of the Codex Leceister: https://mostre.museogalileo.it/codiceleicester/en/introduction https://en.softonic.com/articles/bill-gates-bought-a-da-vinci-manuscript-for-30-million-this-is-what-he-did-with-it I really wish that there were more examples of that sort of thing. 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I guess I should give it a try!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games"}, {"id": 736307552, "item_id": 46019222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019222", "by": "nickledave", "date": "2025-11-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST.", "excerpt": "Really weird to see this person mention MyST as a form of Markdown, and then go on to talk about reStructuredText as their first example of a markup language \"that gives you more control over structure than ... markdown\". The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST. It literally has directives, roles, structural semantics, etc. It just doesn't have the unlearnable syntax of rST and the so", "context": "", "use_case": "documentation markup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Markdown is holding you back"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["documentation markup"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 736507217, "item_id": 46031701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031701", "by": "agoose77", "date": "2025-11-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We are building around a shareable AST precisely because structure really matters.", "excerpt": "Thanks for making this point! I'm chiming in just to add that the Jupyter Book project that builds MyST tooling is now using a new TypeScript stack instead of Sphinx, for any interested newcomers! But yes, ^this. We are building around a shareable AST precisely because structure really matters. (I'm a core developer from Jupyter Book, the team that builds the new MyST stack \u2014 see https://jupyterbook.org/stable/commun", "context": "core developer from Jupyter Book", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Markdown is holding you back"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017782", "title": "Markdown is holding you back", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288701", "title": "Building a Myst Authoring Environment", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252146", "title": "Byrne's Euclid", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814874", "title": "10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816629", "title": "Show HN: MDV \u2013 a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 804619232, "item_id": 50288702, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288702", "by": "runningmike", "date": "2026-10-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Writing markdown and so also MyST[1] is the complex problem", "excerpt": "Full title: \"Building a MyST authoring environment to identify things that MyST core could improve\" Great to see this! Writing markdown and so also MyST[1] is the complex problem for many years between WYSIWYG and typesetting systems. Many tried. Many failed..Latex and Typst are still alive. [1] https://mystmd.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building a Myst Authoring Environment"}, {"id": 772115265, "item_id": 48257204, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257204", "by": "WillAdams", "date": "2026-05-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "One might argue that _Myst_, or at least its predecessor _The Manhole_", "excerpt": "One amazing implementation of that sort of thing was the \"Leonardo\" CD-ROM presentation of the Codex Leceister: https://mostre.museogalileo.it/codiceleicester/en/introduction https://en.softonic.com/articles/bill-gates-bought-a-da-vinci-manuscript-for-30-million-this-is-what-he-did-with-it I really wish that there were more examples of that sort of thing. Other books which push the boundaries on technological present", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Byrne's Euclid"}, {"id": 765736995, "item_id": 47858562, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858562", "by": "the__alchemist", "date": "2026-04-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love puzzle games", "excerpt": "Same reaction - I love puzzle games (The Witness, Talos principle, Blue Prince, Myst series, Baba is You, Antichamber, Obra Dinn, Opus Magnum etc), but haven't heard of this. I guess I should give it a try!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games"}, {"id": 765133617, "item_id": 47820851, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820851", "by": "chelm", "date": "2026-04-18", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "seen here before: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/optional.html#code-fences-using-colons", "excerpt": "Funny to see this approach trending! I published this a month ago. https://wire.wise-relations.com/guides/components/ my takeaway: - add lint or errors, otherwise your formatting will break, e.g. LLMs and humans will add text too long or too short and your design system will not be able to handle this. - it's great for low token input - validate the layout of the user vs. the components used. - seen here before: http", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: MDV \u2013 a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data"}, {"id": 736307552, "item_id": 46019222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019222", "by": "nickledave", "date": "2025-11-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST.", "excerpt": "Really weird to see this person mention MyST as a form of Markdown, and then go on to talk about reStructuredText as their first example of a markup language \"that gives you more control over structure than ... markdown\". The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST. It literally has directives, roles, structural semantics, etc. It just doesn't have the unlearnable syntax of rST and the so", "context": "", "use_case": "documentation markup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Markdown is holding you back"}]}