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Kyrylo Silin
Personal blog · kyrylo.org · on HN as kyryloprogrammingweb
Kyrylo Silin's personal blog at kyrylo.org covers programming and web. Since 2024, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, 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 Kyrylo Silin's post arguing that blogging is still worth doing in the age of AI chatbots, which it discusses through comments on whether anyone will read what people write.
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.
I build serious software and unserious websites
Most-linked posts?
- Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-21
- A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-27
- Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-21
- How the pay-once business model saved my *aaS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-01
What Hacker News says?
> There were a lot of excellent comments, but one thing kept coming up: what's the point in blogging if people are using ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek to spoon-feed them answers? Who, apart from the AIs, will read what you write? It's undeniable that AI has changed the utility of blogging as a means to spread knowledge to others. I agree 100% with the author and most of the comments below that blogging for yourself i…
Comment linking /html/2024/10/25/why-does-target-blank-have-an-underscore-in-front.html
on “It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI”Submitted Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024) as a story · 278 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity? as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better as a story · 158 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do software developers love complexity? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The vertical bar (|) is the best HTML page title separator as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudflare Tunnel: free ngrok alternative to expose local Rails apps to the net as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do software developers love complexity? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your idea probably sucks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the pay-once business model saved my *aaS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's No Place for Test-Driven Development (TDD) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming experience is no longer a moat as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a dropdown menu with just HTML as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from the Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson at Rails World 2024 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm a Proud CRUD Monkey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not Everything Needs an Update as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI will take your job (and your boss's job too) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Counter-Strike introduced me to the world of programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to self-host Plausible Analytics with Kamal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mere add_foreign_key can wipe out your whole Rails+SQLite production table as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted English is a poor language for programming with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: SeaSick Simulator – Make waves on any website as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Life Calendar – How much time you have left on this planet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: The Catipede as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I vibe-coded Tech Debt: a game written in pure HTML/CSS/JS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the ONCE business model saved my *aaS as a story · 1 points
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