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Personal blog · jackson.sh/postsprogrammingai

jackson.sh is a personal blog at jackson.sh about programming and ai. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Problem with UChicago’s Glaze”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2021–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on Java being underrated and on problems with UChicago's Glaze, a tool that lets artists protect their work from AI training. Comments cite them as references only.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Software developer building novel experiences.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Problem with UChicago’s Glaze
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-20
  2. Java Is Underhyped
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Koshkin · 2022-03-09
    > why people still use Java these days Because of the Java ecosystem, e.g. https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language https://marketplace.eclipse.org/ Looking at this I sometimes cannot help thinking, "One must be insane not to use Java." (I use C++.) See also, e.g. https://jackson.sh/posts/2021-04-java-underrated/ P.S. Perl's and Python's ecosystems are also great, but Java is (much) faster.

    Comment linking /posts/2021-04-java-underrated/

    on “The long strange trip to Java (1996)”
  2. Jaxkr · 2021-04-16

    Submitted Java Is Underhyped as a story · 362 points

    HN discussion
  3. dragonwriter · 2023-03-20
    On the other hand: “The Problem with UChicago’s Glaze” https://jackson.sh/posts/2023-03-glaze/ Yesterday, the SAND Lab at UChicago made Glaze available to download. It’s a tool to help artists protect against their work being used to train AI models. It got a bit of buzz last month, including a New York Times spot. However, it has some issues: 1. The authors plagiarized code from DiffusionBee, an AI art tool license…

    Comment linking /posts/2023-03-glaze/

    on “Glaze (Poisoning AI Artists)”
  4. Jaxkr · 2021-05-26

    Submitted Developers can't seem to agree on what command should get rid of a package as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. braingenious · 2023-03-20

    Submitted The Problem with UChicago’s Glaze as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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