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Alex Lawsen
Personal blog · lawsen.substack.comaiscience
Alex Lawsen writes Speculative Decoding, a personal blog at lawsen.substack.com about ai and science. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “When Your Joke Paper Goes Viral”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post about a joke paper that went viral, tied to the Claude comment paper discussion. The only comment cites the post as a source and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI, Management, Forecasting, whatever else is on my mind.
Most-linked posts?
- When Your Joke Paper Goes Viral2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-17
What Hacker News says?
So it turns out the comment paper was a joke: https://lawsen.substack.com/p/when-your-joke-paper-goes-vira...
Comment linking /p/when-your-joke-paper-goes-viral?triedRedirect=true
on “Why Claude's Comment Paper Is a Poor Rebuttal”Submitted When Your Joke Paper Goes Viral as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Your Joke Paper Goes Viral as a story · 1 points
HN discussion