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Gatsby Starter Blog

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Gatsby Starter Blog is a personal blog at note89.github.io about programming. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “AI solves Advent of Code 2022”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog for its posts on type-level TypeScript (a tic-tac-toe implementation in the type system) and on working through Advent of Code with ChatGPT.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog collecting my thoughts on software

Most-linked posts?

  1. AI solves Advent of Code 2022
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-12-01
  2. TypeScript Typelevel Tic-Tac-Toe: Overkill Edition
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Arithmetics were apparently integrated into TypeScript types for that exact reason: https://note89.github.io/typescript-typelevel-tic-tac-toe/

    Comment linking /typescript-typelevel-tic-tac-toe/

    on “TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]”
  2. Submitted State of emergency The four ways your state might be wrong as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. See also https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

    Comment linking /the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

    on “Tell HN: I asked ChatGPT to build a login form in React and it gave me the code”
  4. Submitted AI solves Advent of Code 2022 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. This blog is reporting on doing the advent of code via ChatGPT : https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

    Comment linking /the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

    on “Ask HN: Anyone Doing Advent of Code with ChatGPT?”
  6. Submitted AI solves Advent of Code 2022 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Definitely. I'm using it to solve Advent of Code [1] and there a few others doing the same [2]. The training data biases definitely shines trough sometimes but thats mostly when the problem labels (R)ock, (P)aper, (S)cissor as A, B, C. It really wanted to use R,P,S as identifiers. But after you tell it to use the right identifiers it solves the problem. For homework which is usually smaller variations on the same co…

    Comment linking /the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

    on “Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT”
  8. Submitted TypeScript Typelevel Tic-Tac-Toe: Overkill Edition as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Stable APIs Are a Pipe Dream as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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