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bene dictio
Personal blog · benexdict.io/pwritingculture
bene dictio is a personal blog at benexdict.io about writing and culture. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Math Team”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on math team and competitions, linked by HN commenters in AI and math discussions, plus a personal essay on religious doubt and marriage. Commenters cite them as sources for their own points.
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.
technology brother learns to feel.
Most-linked posts?
- Math Team3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-20
What Hacker News says?
No, that sort of thing has been said about math competitions for a long time. It's not a new argument put forward as something against AI. An analogy with software is that math competitions are like (very hard) leetcode. There was an article posted on HN recently that is related: https://benexdict.io/p/math-team
Comment linking /p/math-team
on “AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry”Submitted you should probably have a kid as a story · 52 points
HN discussionThe author mentions "dropping [his] religion" here [1], which undercuts the idea that he is lying to himself about his religious doubts. I don't think much good comes from analyzing a private stranger in this way, especially given such limited evidence. [1]: https://benexdict.io/p/uncertainty-and-marriage
Comment linking /p/uncertainty-and-marriage
on “Math Team”Submitted letting go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mission as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid year one: on becoming worse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Math Team and Other Horrible Things You Do to Get into Stanford as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Math Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parenting Off-Balance as a story · 1 points
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