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gay robot noises is a personal blog at catgirl.ai about programming and philosophy. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link catgirl.ai in the 'Comfy Software' thread on a software aesthetic for hackers with depression, citing its robot about page. One comment links an apostrophe and character encoding article.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-18
- Cut -C Considered Harmful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-22
- /pages/robot/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-02
- Type-level bounded recursion in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-26
- Eight Months of NixOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-03
What Hacker News says?
The author likely has it though. On his about page [1], he says " ..i hate my body, and to a somewhat lesser extent hate my brain (and even my mind)." Clearly tech is an outlet for finding comfort for the author [1] https://catgirl.ai/pages/robot/
Comment linking /pages/robot/
on “Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression”Submitted An elegy for GNU and RMS as a story · 263 points
HN discussion> The author himself says as much. herself/itself, according to her bio ( https://catgirl.ai/ ). I feel like the url should have prompted you to check :P
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on “Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression”Submitted Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression as a story · 193 points
HN discussionIt was possibly insensitively worded, but the entirety of your now-deleted comment nevertheless hinted at some deeper, intuitive perception. No matter how hard we try to politically correct our speech, some impressions are just rather clear. For reference: https://catgirl.ai/pages/robot/ (see „why?“ section in particular) I genuinely wonder how one can voice said impressions in a way that is considered acceptable, w…
Comment linking /pages/robot/
on “Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression”Submitted Type-level bounded recursion in Rust as a story · 10 points
HN discussionOnce again, programmers forget alphabets other than the Latin one exist. And by Latin, I mean the one containing only A through Z, with no “fancies”. Then there’s the issue of character encodings, which the article does a decent job explaining! Nitpick though: they claims it’s a UTF-8/ASCII thing, but it’s actually a UTF-8/Windows-1252 issue. In related news, even GNU coreutils fails to support UTF-8 properly despit…
Comment linking /log/cut-c-harmful/
on “What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes”Submitted Eight Months of NixOS as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cut -C Considered Harmful as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eight Months of NixOS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comfy Software as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Type-Level Bounded Recursion in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't believe the 'biological intelligence' hype (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comfy Software as a story · 2 points
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