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Ian Whitlock

Personal blog · silly.business/blogprogrammingai

Ian Whitlock writes silly business, a personal blog at silly.business about programming and ai. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “We should revisit literate programming in the agent era”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in one HN comment as a post arguing for revisiting literate programming, claiming it can help LLMs. The comment cites it as support for its own point; no one judges 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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-08
  2. Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. WillAdams · 2026-10-25
    The version of the documentation which I would very much like to see would be a Literate Programming version where all the code is explained from the ground up. Apparently, this can actually assist the LLM: https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-progr... as discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300747

    Comment linking /blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/

    on “The Goose Programming Language”
  2. PaulHoule · 2025-03-03

    Submitted Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. todsacerdoti · 2025-02-22

    Submitted Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. horseradish · 2026-03-08

    Submitted We should revisit literate programming in the agent era as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. todsacerdoti · 2026-03-08

    Submitted We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. evakhoury · 2026-04-07

    Submitted We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. mpweiher · 2025-02-25

    Submitted Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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