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Colin Wright
Personal blog · brainlenses.substack.comwritingsciencephilosophy
Colin Wright writes Brain Lenses, a personal blog at brainlenses.substack.com about writing, science and philosophy. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. 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
Colin Wright's Substack posts name and explain ideas such as Additive Bias and Lizardman's Constant, and one covers incidental rotator cuff abnormalities on MRI scans. Commenters mostly link them without comment.
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.
Essays and podcast episodes about how we see the world, ourselves, and each other.
What Hacker News says?
Yet another example of Additive Bias: https://brainlenses.substack.com/p/additive-bias
Comment linking /p/additive-bias
on “We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned”https://brainlenses.substack.com/p/lizardmans-constant
Comment linking /p/lizardmans-constant
on “Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska”"A 2026 Finnish study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to look at patients’ shoulders found that 99% of Finnish adults over 40 have at least one rotator cuff abnormality." https://brainlenses.substack.com/p/abnormality Incidental Rotator Cuff Abnormalities on Magnetic Resonance Imaging https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
Comment linking /p/abnormality
on “I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI”