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Lukas Petersson
Personal blog · lukaspetersson.com/blogaistartups
Lukas Petersson's personal blog at lukaspetersson.com covers ai and startups. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on ingesting PDFs with Gemini 2.0 and on LLM-based products. Commenters discuss how table parsing holds up on messy real-world tables and whether LLM apps are being commoditized.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-15
- AI founders will learn the bitter lesson3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-12
- AI Safety as a YC Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-19
- Linguistic Imperialism in AI – Enforcing Human-Readable Chain-of-Thought2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-21
What Hacker News says?
I feel compelled to reply. You've made a bunch of assumptions, and presented your success (likely with a limited set of table formats) as the one true way to parse PDFs. There's no such thing. In real world usage, many tables are badly misaligned. Headers are off. Lines are missing between rows. Some columns and rows are separated by colors. Cells are merged. Some are imported from Excel. There are dotted sub sectio…
Comment linking /blog/2025/bitter-vertical/
on “Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything”Submitted AI founders will learn the bitter lesson as a story · 337 points
HN discussionIt's great to see the foundation model companies having their product offerings commoditized so fast - we as the users definitely win. Unless you're applying to be an intern analyst of some type somewhere... good luck in the next few years. I'm just starting to wonder where we as the entrepreneurs end up fitting in. Every majorly useful app on top of LLMs has been done or is being done by the model companies: - RAG…
Comment linking /blog/2025/bitter-vertical/
on “Perplexity Deep Research”Submitted AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 4 – You're a Wizard Harry as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linguistic Imperialism in AI – Enforcing Human-Readable Chain-of-Thought as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Verticals – A Footnote in History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life on the AGI-Pill as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linguistic Imperialism in AI – Enforcing Human-Readable Chain-of-Thought as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mother's Day Gift Recommendations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Safety as a YC Startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Safety as a YC Startup as a story · 1 points
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