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John Aiken
Personal blog · lowimpactfruit.com · on HN as mnky9800nscienceculturewriting
John Aiken writes Low Impact Fruit, a personal blog at lowimpactfruit.com about science, culture and writing. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Aiken's Internet magazine for its LLM experiments, including a Zork benchmark for testing language models on text adventure games. It is also cited in a discussion of lookism.
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.
Low Impact Fruit is a periodical about science, technology, academia, culture, life, and other topics.
Most-linked posts?
- Zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-04-23
- I Quit My PhD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-19
What Hacker News says?
They aren't good at Zork[1] and neither at newer and/or more obscure text adventures[2]. [1]: https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/zork-bench-an-llm-reasoning... [2]: https://entropicthoughts.com/evaluating-llms-playing-text-ad...
Comment linking /p/zork-bench-an-llm-reasoning-eval
on “Why are large language models so terrible at video games?”Submitted I Quit My PhD as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI loved my time at RC. It changed me a lot. I wrote several blog posts about different projects and my time during my batch. I would strongly suggest applying if you like computers and want to talk about them constantly while building cool stuff. https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/rainy-citycom-a-side-projec... https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/zork-bench-an-llm-reasoning... https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/my-return-s…
Comment linking /p/my-return-statement
on “Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work”Submitted Zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat's your point, given that you seem to indicate you're an apex feeder in your HN profile: "Former Georgia tech, CU Boulder, and GFZ-Potsdam. Current UiO Njord Centre and xal.no. Recurser. Read my Internet magazine: https://lowimpactfruit.com ". Perhaps check your priviledges (I loath that term but it seems appropriate from your profile). You seem to be climbing the ladder and complaining about looking up and seei…
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on “Should We Do More to Fight Lookism?”Submitted Zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When I Quit My PhD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted John-Chan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My recurse center return statement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rainy-city.com: A side project I have been thinking about for a long time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted After AI smashes the information barrier as a story · 1 points
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