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helix-cheat-sheet
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stevenhoy / helix-cheat-sheet

helix-cheat-sheet

A cheat-sheet for Helix.

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4Mentions
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174GitHub stars
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What it is

A cheat-sheet for Helix.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-11-01 21:27:35 UTC to 2025-12-18 15:43:44 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsOct 272025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 172025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 15

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Oct 272025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC303
Nov 32025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 102025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 172025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 242025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 82025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 152025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Manually, using Omnigraffle. It's not text-driven like Mermaid or Typst. I made a list of all the commands in the docs, grouped them by similarity and then created tables in Omnigraffle. OG has a very cool scale-text-and-graphics feature that allowed the boxes to re-size nicely on the page. I learned a lot doing it, and thought others would find it useful. So, there's no source to share, other than the OG file. It seems I have some options: 1) update it myself, or 2) let others make another (utensil has started one using Typst; it's at https://github.com/utensil/helix-cheat-sheet). I always appreciate the work of others to make useful things, and wanted to give something back, no matter how small. Given my other commitments it will take me about a month or so to bring it up to date. stappersg opened an issue in the repo (https://github.co
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m/stevenhoy/helix-cheat-sheet/issues/1) - Ill post this comment there and ask for feedback.
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