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Daniel's Blog
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Daniel's Blog is a personal blog at danieltan.weblog.lol about ai, philosophy and programming. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Conway's Law and Programming Languages”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once in a thread on physics stagnation, with a remark that not all of the author's posts seem AI-written. The linked post is about why most image-generation startups struggle, per its URL.
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?
- Conway's Law and Programming Languages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-18
- Agent Lineage Evolution: A Novel Framework for Managing LLM Agent Degradation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
What Hacker News says?
Same. https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2025/06/agentic-ai-is-a-bubble-... The fundamental difference is we need HITL to reduce errors instead of HOTL which leads to the errors you mentioned
Comment linking /2025/06/agentic-ai-is-a-bubble-but-im-still-trying-to-make-it-work
on “The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production”Submitted The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well as a story · 96 points
HN discussionhttps://danieltan.weblog.lol/2025/06/agentic-ai-is-a-bubble-... We should be working to make HITL tools, not HOTL workflows where the humans are expected to just work with the final output. At some point the abstraction will leak.
Comment linking /2025/06/agentic-ai-is-a-bubble-but-im-still-trying-to-make-it-work
on “Building better AI tools”Submitted Mapping LLMs over excel saved my passion for game dev as a story · 83 points
HN discussionhttps://danieltan.weblog.lol/2025/08/function-colors-represe... the core problem is that language/library authors need to provide some way to bridge between different execution contexts, like containing these different contexts (sync / async) under FSMs and then providing some sort of communication channel between both.
Comment linking /2025/08/function-colors-represent-different-execution-contexts
on “Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs”Submitted America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThe counterfactual was not to imprison him in the first place. That was what the orignal article : https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/americas-greatest-strat... is about. Qian was widely considered as a "strategic" scientist in China. The knowledge he had counteracted the Soviet political apparatus, and was enough to propel China into superpower status in less than a hundred years.
Comment linking /2026/05/americas-greatest-strategic-blunder-the-imprisonment-of-qian-xuesen
on “America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen”Submitted The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf people are wondering why the linked article doesn't contain the movie reference, the original article was https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/americas-greatest-strat... which specifically mentions that this is more than a "blunder" but a loss of empiricism and pragmatism during the McCarthy era, along with various caveats and historical detail around Soviet and Chinese attitudes around the methodology Qian broug…
Comment linking /2026/05/americas-greatest-strategic-blunder-the-imprisonment-of-qian-xuesen
on “America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen”Submitted Cyberpunk Is Now Our Reality as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAt least not all the author's blog posts seem to be AI-written: https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2023/01/why-most-image-gen-star...
Comment linking /2023/01/why-most-image-gen-startups-will-die-off
on “The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics”Submitted You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It as a story · 6 points
HN discussionyep, as I was exploring in https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/dunning-kruger-and-the-... , the expert pays the "communication tax" to dumb down concepts that the listener can understand. There is a gap between domain understanding and what is being conveyed that is similar for human-llm interactions as well.
Comment linking /2026/05/dunning-kruger-and-the-communication-tax
on “Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise”Submitted Agent Lineage Evolution: A Novel Framework for Managing LLM Agent Degradation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unpaid Labour in Productive Capacity as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody on the internet knows if you are a human as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A novel approach to password-auth without sharing the password to server as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conway's Law and Programming Languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conway's Law and Programming Languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pokemon and the Iran War Nerdsniped Me into Quantifying Strategy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Conventional Price Theory Fails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted People as Foundation: The Productive Capacity Theory of Money – Part 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Theoretical Physicists Are Doing Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dunning-Kruger and the Communication Tax as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rules, Not Weights as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case That More Openness Brings More Good to Society as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Succession – Agent Lineage Evolution for an Agentic World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Armor Gap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Longevity Trap: We're Building Cyberpunk Economics Without Trying as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic AI is a bubble, but I'm still trying to make it work as a story · 1 points
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