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Andreas Kirsch
Personal blog · blackhc.net/blogaiphilosophy
Andreas Kirsch's personal blog at blackhc.net covers ai and philosophy. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Flawed Ephemeral Software Hypothesis”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this for a 2019 experiment classifying MNIST digits with ZIP compression, reaching 74% accuracy. A commenter pointed to it as a similar result to a GZIP-based submission.
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.
Research bio & blog
Most-linked posts?
- The Flawed Ephemeral Software Hypothesis3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-18
- Trust Is Not Governance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-01
What Hacker News says?
Similar result (2019) using ZIP, getting 74%: https://www.blackhc.net/blog/2019/mnist-by-zip/
Comment linking /blog/2019/mnist-by-zip/
on “Show HN: 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code”Submitted Better Intuition for Information Theory as a story · 137 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trust is not Governance: an essay from inside Google DeepMind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trust Is Not Governance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Flawed Ephemeral Software Hypothesis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Flawed Ephemeral Software Hypothesis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Flawed Ephemeral Software Hypothesis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Useful: Model Selection with Limited Labels as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
