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sphinx-doc
sphinx
Python2016–2025
sphinx-doc / sphinx

sphinx

The Sphinx documentation generator

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

The Sphinx documentation generator

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Sphinx is very powerful, I recommend it. https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx

j88439h84 used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-02-20 01:00:24 UTC to 2025-11-22 23:18:58 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

2 sources
pfultz2·Jun 17, 2016
First, there is commonmark that is trying to standardize markdown. There is also recommonmark which will parse commonmark for sphinx: https://github.com/rtfd/recommonmark However, commonmark currently lack support for tables, so I fall back on rst for tables(actually I think the syntax for tables in rst is much better than tables in other markdown flavors). Also, resolving links using commonmark in sphinx is a mess, right now. I actually extended recommonmark so sphinx will properly resolve cross references(including reference to elements in a domain). However, I had to update sphinx as well, which I have a PR open with no response from them, here: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/2644 It seems unfortunate that sphinx devs are unresponsive to contributions. The devs for mkdocs are a lot more responsive, but seem more interested i
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n monetary contributions, unfortunately.
In ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation

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