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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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Most-linked posts?
- Demystifying Git Submodules2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-06-13
- In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-29
- Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-14
- A disk is a bunch of bits (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted Demystifying Git Submodules as a story · 127 points
HN discussionThis 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://…
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on “Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI”Submitted Reddit Is OpenAI’s Moat? as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted A disk is a bunch of bits (2023) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect (2017) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying Git Submodules as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reddit Is OpenAI's Moat (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs make embarrassingly parallelizable scripts even more embarrassing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying Git Submodules as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying Git submodules as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A disk is a bunch of bits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How does Linux handle writes? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux writes don't work the way you think they do as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Writing to My Brand-New Disk? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ChatGPT to generate Git commit messages as a story · 1 points
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