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Alex Selimov
Personal blog · alexselimov.com/postsprogrammingaiwriting
Alex Selimov's personal blog at alexselimov.com covers programming, ai and writing. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Men Who Stare at Walls”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only a bare link to one post, whose URL slug ('men who stare at walls') is the only clue to its topic, appears in a thread about a desk setup. No comment discusses 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.
Alex Selimov personal site and blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Men Who Stare at Walls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-27
- Handling the great code forge fragmentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-17
What Hacker News says?
https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074
Comment linking /posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
on “My two-part desk setup”Submitted Men Who Stare at Walls as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI did the same thing! https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/ai_confession/ I don’t think it’s even necessarily safe to use it as a grammar checker because it will offer phrase changes that are hard to deny. Then you slowly lose your voice as a writer.
Comment linking /posts/ai_confession/
on “I'm banning AI from my life for all human-to-human communication”Submitted Handling the great code forge fragmentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Musings on success from someone seeking (The War of Art review) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kagi Search, human connection, and why LLMs are not a good search replacement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling the great code forge fragmentation as a story · 1 points
HN discussion