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Ian Reppel
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Ian Reppel's personal blog at ianreppel.org covers ai, science and startups. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The AI Benchmark Trap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post, a review of quantum computing courses, as an overview for someone looking to learn the field. One commenter suggested it to an Ask HN thread about skills that feel out of reach.
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.
Ian Reppel's website on quantum computing, machine learning, product management, stereoscopy, archaeology, fiction, and more
Most-linked posts?
- The AI Benchmark Trap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-05
- LLM-Powered Industrial Sabotage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-06
What Hacker News says?
The current best one- and two-gate errors are well below 0.01% and going down with every generation of chips. See: https://ianreppel.org/quantum.html There are no theoretical reasons QEC can't exist. In fact it already does. Is it already good enough for universal fault tolerance? No. But then again no one said it would. We are slowly getting closer every year. In his book, Dyakonov offers zero solid reasons other t…
Comment linking /quantum.html
on “Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?”Submitted From Steam to Silicon: Patterns of Technological Revolutions as a story · 49 points
HN discussionWith LLMs, industrial sabotage at scale becomes feasible: https://ianreppel.org/llm-powered-industrial-sabotage/ What's truly scary is that agents could manufacture "evidence" to back up their attacks easily, so it looks as if half the world is against a person.
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on “An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me”Submitted Successful Companies Go Blind as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou might benefit from this overview: https://ianreppel.org/a-review-of-quantum-computing-courses/
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on “Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?”Submitted The Last Vendor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo true and it's been like that for ages. It's why I called these people rogue data scientists five years ago: https://ianreppel.org/how-to-spot-a-rogue-data-scientist/
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on “'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes”Submitted The Emperor's New Xerox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://ianreppel.org
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted What They Definitely Don't Teach You in Business School as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSame with Cloudflare & Co: https://ianreppel.org/the-penalty-of-being-human/
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on “How much of your life slick UI animations are stealing”Submitted 1,350 Days with Logseq as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI call it executive deterministic parroting: https://ianreppel.org/executive-deterministic-parrots/
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on “Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis”Submitted The AI Benchmark Trap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's the penalty for being human: https://ianreppel.org/the-penalty-of-being-human/
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on “CAPTCHAs and the punishment of privacy-conscious users”Submitted PMF: Product/Market Folklore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA similar perspective as mine: https://ianreppel.org/the-ai-benchmark-trap/
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on “AI benchmarks are broken. Here's what we need instead”Submitted Ralph Wiggum as a Degenerate Evolutionary Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocation: Argentina (UTC-3) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ML infrastructure, distributed systems, real-time/streaming data, online inference, on-device/edge ML; Scala, Python, SQL; Kafka, Flink, Spark, Pinot; Kubernetes; TensorFlow/TFLite, PyTorch; MLOps; AWS/GCP Résumé/CV: https://ianreppel.org/cv Email: hn@ianreppel.org Technical product manager for ML and data infrastructure (B2C, B2B, and dee…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)”Submitted LLM-Powered Industrial Sabotage as a story · 1 points
HN discussion