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Alex Litzenberger
Personal blog · alexlitzenberger.com/blogaiprogramming
Alex Litzenberger's personal blog at alexlitzenberger.com covers ai and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its write-up of building a minimal transformer that adds two 10-digit numbers, where one commenter says their handwritten 36-parameter submission is the top entry.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of Alex Litzenberger. Blog posts on philosophy, technology, and personal projects.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-28
- /blog/building_a_minimal_transformer_for_10_digit_addition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-28
What Hacker News says?
It is, and that's more-or-less the approach that https://alexlitzenberger.com/blog/building_a_minimal_transfo... uses.
Comment linking /blog/building_a_minimal_transformer_for_10_digit_addition
on “Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers”Submitted Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI made a blogpost on my submission (currently the top handwritten one at 36 parameters) https://alexlitzenberger.com/blog/building_a_minimal_transfo...
Comment linking /blog/building_a_minimal_transformer_for_10_digit_addition
on “Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers”Submitted Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emulating ALiBi with Rope as a story · 1 points
HN discussion