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Allison Parrish writes Allison Posts, a personal blog at posts.decontextualize.com about ai, writing and programming. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Language models can only write ransom notes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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Posts from Allison Parrish, poet and programmer.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Language models can only write ransom notes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-26
  2. Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-15

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  1. Submitted Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended as a story · 570 points

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  2. Submitted Language models can only write ransom notes as a story · 3 points

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  3. Submitted Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted Language models can only write ransom notes as a story · 1 points

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  5. Submitted Nothing survives transcription, nothing doesn’t survive transcription as a story · 1 points

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  6. Submitted Language models can only write poetry as a story · 1 points

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