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Alex Wennerberg

Personal blog · alexwennerberg.com/blog · on HN as alexwennerbergaiprogrammingculture

Alex Wennerberg's personal blog at alexwennerberg.com covers ai, programming and culture. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Against Big Tech Credentialism”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
9HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link his posts on copyright law being shaped by corporate interests and on AI-generated 'slop', plus an announcement of a permacomputing meeting in San Francisco.

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.

The author on HN?

alexwennerberg · 157 karma · member since 2025

https://alexwennerberg.com sf, ca alex@alexwennerberg.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Against Big Tech Credentialism
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-17
  2. AI code is slop too
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-26
  3. /permacomputing.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. antonvs · 2026-01-27
    The problem is, copyright law is no longer about artists, if it ever was: it’s about corporations, i.e. maximizing the value corporations can extract from intellectual property. This post which was on the front page today is relevant: https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-01-25-slop.html

    Comment linking /blog/2026-01-25-slop.html

    on “Google Books has been effectively killed by the last algorithm update”
  2. epestr · 2026-10-14

    Submitted Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? as a story · 427 points

    HN discussion
  3. alexwennerberg · 2026-01-14
    https://alexwennerberg.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  4. nsm · 2026-10-14

    Submitted Against Big Tech Credentialism as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. alexwennerberg · 2026-05-07
    For any Bay Area folks, we have a permacomputing meetup. Planning on scheduling the next one, you can join the mailing list or RSS for updates https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html

    Comment linking /permacomputing.html

    on “Permacomputing Principles”
  6. alexwennerberg · 2026-04-14

    Submitted Please don't vibe code your personal website as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. oxw · 2026-02-21
    Permacomputing meeting in SF March 1st https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html

    Comment linking /permacomputing.html

    on “Permacomputing”
  8. ptx · 2025-11-29

    Submitted Software Engineers Are Not Politicians as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. alexwennerberg · 2019-05-05

    Submitted Liberating My Neopets Data Through a GDPR Data Retrieval Request as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. speckx · 2026-04-27

    Submitted Do-Nothing Software Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. speckx · 2026-07-23

    Submitted Naive design is better than AI design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. abnercoimbre · 2026-04-19

    Submitted Put away your phone and play Pokémon on your Nintendo DS instead as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Sukram21 · 2026-04-17

    Submitted Against Big Tech Credentialism as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. alexwennerberg · 2026-04-03

    Submitted AI can sort of code, can't write as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. alexwennerberg · 2026-01-26

    Submitted AI code is slop too as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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