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Personal blog · blog.ollien.com/postsprogrammingsystemsai
bloglien is a personal blog at blog.ollien.com about programming, systems and ai. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “LLMs Reduce Development Friction. Is That a Good Thing?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on LLM limits in software development, reversing Mersenne Twister output, and a self-hosted OpenVPN gateway setup. Commenters cite these posts as explanations and sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- LLMs Reduce Development Friction. Is That a Good Thing?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-20
What Hacker News says?
And the next link I click captures it perfectly: https://blog.ollien.com/posts/llm-friction/ To quote Ollien: > Even as an “LLM-skeptic”, it would be silly for me to say that the tools are useless for software development. There are clearly times where they can be useful, whether that’s to perform a refactoring too complicated for IDE tooling, or to get a proof-of-concept put together. With that said, in my time bot…
Comment linking /posts/llm-friction/
on “Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?”Submitted LLMs Reduce Development Friction. Is That a Good Thing? as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> A Mersenne twister ... is fine for deck shuffling It isn't. Please don't do that! Mersenne Twister is fully reversible given its 624 consecutive outputs (see, for instance, this pretty good write-up: https://blog.ollien.com/posts/reverse-mersenne-twister ). In other words, someone who can observe 624 outputs can reconstruct its entire output sequence forward and backward .
Comment linking /posts/reverse-mersenne-twister
on “Zero Tolerance for Bias”Submitted Demystifying the GameBoy/SM83's DAA Instruction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYeah, Tailscale is probably a good bet. If you wanted to get a bit more involved, I have a blog post about my setup with OpenVPN (though it does require a hosted box, which may kinda defeat the purpose of having it locally for OP depending on their needs) https://blog.ollien.com/posts/vpn-gateway/
Comment linking /posts/vpn-gateway/
on “Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or _?_ on _?_?”