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Charlie Guo
Personal blog · ignorance.ai · on HN as charlierguoaiculture
Charlie Guo writes Artificial Ignorance, a personal blog at ignorance.ai about ai and culture. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “The State of AI Engineering”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Charlie Guo's weekly AI newsletter, Artificial Ignorance. One HN commenter, in a thread on substacks people read on arrival, says it keeps them current on AI without feeling lost.
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.
At the intersection of engineering and intelligence. Essays, analysis, tactics, news, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- The State of AI Engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-12
What Hacker News says?
Charlie Guo - Artificial Ignorance. I don't have time to keep up with everything going on in the AI world, and Charlie's writeups each week keep me up to date enough to not feel lost. Shameless plug, I write Mostly Python, so I read that many times before it hits my inbox. :) https://www.ignorance.ai https://mostlypython.substack.com
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on “Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?”Submitted Over 40% of the latest YC batch are AI/ML startups as a story · 50 points
HN discussionThe deluge is quite something, isn't it. Over 40% of the latest YC batch are related to AI/ML: https://www.ignorance.ai/p/analyzing-over-100-ai-startups-fr...
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on “I cannot wait for this deluge of AI products to be over”Submitted How We Use AI at Pulley (W20) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOh wow, crazy to see this on the front page! Author here. Shameless plug: if you like my writing, I mostly write about AI these days: https://www.ignorance.ai/
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on “The Greatest Counterfeiter (2021)”Submitted I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk's cryptocurrency scam bait as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why AI products need some better UX as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What President Biden's AI executive order means as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Fall Behind in the Age of AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI's Top Competitors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from 139 YC AI Startups (YC S23) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Emergence of AI Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk's cryptocurrency scam bait as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Voice Agents Can Just Do Things: Why voice is the next capability overhang as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Emerging Harness Engineering Playbook as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6: More System Card Shenanigans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humans Welcome to Observe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SEO for AI: A Look at Generative Engine Optimization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build an AI search engine (Part 2) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y Combinator's AI boom is still going strong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with AI fatigue as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of AI Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from the inaugural AI Engineer Summit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Intern and the Coach as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Doing things that don't scale” with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT Everywhere All at Once as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI News Roundup: Fraud, FAANG and VFX as a story · 1 points
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