{"slug": "prism", "name": "Prism", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 2, "warners": 0, "score": 1.113, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2026-01-27", "latest": "2026-06-11", "why": "It seems to be a great agentic canvas for authoring latex.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "It seems to be a great agentic canvas for authoring latex.", "icon": false, "domain": "lonecloud.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://lonecloud.dev", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Prism"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 748614400, "item_id": 46788400, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788400", "by": "OutOfHere", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It seems to be a great agentic canvas for authoring latex.", "excerpt": "It seems to be a great agentic canvas for authoring latex. I used it to create a paper: \"Eight Leading Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics - A Comparative Survey (2026)\" https://prism.openai.com/?u=de087658-2d28-4dd2-9bc5-c43abb83c3fb&pg=1&m=main.tex&d=7", "context": "", "use_case": "authoring LaTeX papers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Prism"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["code block rendering", "authoring latex papers"], "compared": [{"slug": "ntfy", "name": "ntfy", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 805105025, "item_id": 50319064, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319064", "by": "lone-cloud", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I also maintain my own UnifiedPush distributor app that optionally pairs with a notification gateway", "excerpt": "If anyone is interested, I run my own minimalist fork of Molly named Polly. I just released a stopgap with the fixes: - RingRTC 2.73.0-1, which includes the call-teardown fix (the hangup/hot-mic issue) - Signal's blacklist of the eight compromised eMudhra TLS intermediates https://github.com/lone-cloud/polly/releases/tag/v8.19.2-6 It's still based on Signal 8.19.2. The build is arm64-only and Android 14+. 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I use Prism to render code blocks on my blog, which pulls in FontAwesome for only two characters. Stripping all but those two characters reduced the font file size from 160kb to 680 bytes.[0] [0]. https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/remove-unused-characters-font-size", "context": "", "use_case": "code block rendering", "switched_from": "", "story": "The three lines of CSS that saved me 40kb and might do the same for you"}, {"id": 748614400, "item_id": 46788400, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788400", "by": "OutOfHere", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It seems to be a great agentic canvas for authoring latex.", "excerpt": "It seems to be a great agentic canvas for authoring latex. 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