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Daniel Angell
Personal blog · danangell.com/blogaiprogramming
Daniel Angell's personal blog at danangell.com covers ai and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “GPT-4 Understands”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on the post "I Skipped to the Ending". The one comment only gives the blog's index.xml feed URL, so the comments say nothing about the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- GPT-4 Understands2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-10-13
What Hacker News says?
I’ve used the ability to import back end types into the front end to get a zero-cost no-file-watcher API validator. My blog post here isn’t as good as it should be, but hopefully it gets the point across https://danangell.com/blog/posts/type-level-api-client/
Comment linking /blog/posts/type-level-api-client/
on “How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast”Submitted Show HN: My 10 Gb/s Router as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe bigger ones have gained a rough understanding of a few systems [1]. Which is really impressive and gives an answer to the Chinese Room experiment. In my experience they don’t understand a lot of things I ask about very well. But the fact that they understand anything at all is impressive. 1. https://danangell.com/blog/posts/gpt-understands/
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on “Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o”Submitted Claude Gave the Brainfuck Ray Tracer a 9000x Speedup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo caps, no cap :P I even made my own router because I didn't like the consumer options available: https://danangell.com/blog/posts/10gbps-router-for-fun/
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on “FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, future goal of 1gbps [pdf]”Submitted I Skipped to the Ending as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's a bit from an episode of This American Life that I think is relevant, cut into a post on my blog: https://danangell.com/blog/posts/gpt-understands/ > The idea is that back when GPT-4 was being trained for it to really consistently get the next word correct, to do that reliably, it had to do more than just bullshit. It had to do more than guess based on patterns. To get the next word right, it had to truly und…
Comment linking /blog/posts/gpt-understands/
on “"Hallucinating" AIs Sound Creative, but Let's Not Celebrate Being Wrong”Submitted A Type-Level API Client as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's kind of like my T430: https://danangell.com/blog/posts/my-t430/ I wish it could go up to 32GB though. And the i7 in there shows its age. But it's still usable with modern software!
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on “Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot”Submitted GPT-4 Understands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot affiliated with the blog, but apparently Hugo generates an index.xml feed by default, so try this: https://danangell.com/blog/index.xml (I had the same question with a different site two days ago.)
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on “I Skipped to the Ending”Submitted Claude Code is the ceiling on vibe-coded software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI’ve done better with less: https://danangell.com/blog/posts/type-level-api-client/
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on “Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely”Submitted Twitch Donations IRL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Valley Vignettes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-4 Understands as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted O(zero) Runtime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Post Information Scarcity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with GPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More thoughts on ChatGPT's political beliefs as a story · 1 points
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