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Personal blog · cyberdemon.org · on HN as dmazinsystemsprogramming

cyberdemon.org is a personal blog at cyberdemon.org about systems and programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Demystifying Git Submodules”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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22mentions?
6HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2023

Read this blog if you like computers.

The author on HN?

dmazin · 4,594 karma · member since 2010

SRE and computer history nerd. Currently, I am a "Linux engineer" at a trading company. You may enjoy my blog (mostly about operating system stuff): https://www.cyberdemon.org.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Demystifying Git Submodules
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-06-13
  2. In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-29
  3. Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-14
  4. A disk is a bunch of bits (2023)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. My belief for the past almost decade is concern that use of AI will homogenize our culture. For example, the more we use LLMs to talk to each other, the more homogenized English becomes[1]. And, of course, it's amplified when the LLMs learn from LLMs. [1] This is not new: I wrote about it in 2017. https://www.cyberdemon.org/2017/12/12/pink-lexical-slime.htm...

    Comment linking /2017/12/12/pink-lexical-slime.html

    on “Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI”
  2. Submitted Demystifying Git Submodules as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  3. This is so bizarre. I wrote an extremely similar blog post in March 2023: "In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy"[1]. It even was on HN![2] Actually, this is not bizarre. The author clearly read my post. A few elements are very similar, and the idea is the same. The author did expand on it though. I wish they had linked to my post with more clarity than under the word "eroded" in one sentence. [1] https://…

    Comment linking /2023/03/29/age-of-ai-skill-atrophy.html

    on “Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI”
  4. Submitted Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat? as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A disk is a bunch of bits (2023) as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect (2017) as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Demystifying Git Submodules as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Reddit Is OpenAI's Moat (2023) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted LLMs make embarrassingly parallelizable scripts even more embarrassing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Demystifying Git Submodules as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Demystifying Git submodules as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A disk is a bunch of bits as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How does Linux handle writes? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Linux writes don't work the way you think they do as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted What's Writing to My Brand-New Disk? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Using ChatGPT to generate Git commit messages as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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