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kappadi3on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months

We ended up using a service like yakpdf, for HTML to PDF generation.

It handled most of the rendering issues out of the box compared to headless browser setups.

kappadi3on Ask HN: Is there a way to render URLs to PDFs on Android?

yakpdf can handle HTML/URL to PDF conversion through an API without dealing with browser setup or headless tools.

kappadi3on Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#

If you ever revisit alternatives, you might want to try YakPDF It gives you:

- HTML → PDF without any browser engine - PDF compression & optimization - Simple API for manual PDF generation - Text extraction - No native dependencies and cheaper than Aspose

It’s not a full drop-in replacement for every Aspose feature, but it covers the core workflow you mentioned and is much lighter to integrate.

https://rapidapi.com/yakpdf-yakpdf/api/yakpdf (open via firefox)

kappadi3on Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?

Puppeteer and Playwright are the main open-source options nowadays, both solid for HTML → PDF once your print CSS is sorted. Don’t forget proper page breaks (break-before/after/inside) — e.g. break-after: page works in Chromium, while always doesn’t. For trickier pagination you can look at Paged.js, and I’d test layouts in Chrome/Edge before automating.

Shameless plug: I run yakpdf.com, a hosted Puppeteer-based service if you want to avoid self-hosting. https://rapidapi.com/yakpdf-yakpdf/api/yakpdf