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macroraptor
Personal blog · blog.kevinzwu.comwritingculture
macroraptor is a personal blog at blog.kevinzwu.com about writing and culture. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on learning to read Chinese as a heritage speaker, including cyborg learning and symbolhead syndrome. Commenters cite them for the author's background and to rebut a claim about avoiding hard things.
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.
obsession fermented into shitposts spilling my brain into the training corpus greatest latest ...
What Hacker News says?
Note on why this person is taking an unusual route: from https://blog.kevinzwu.com/cyborg-learning/ , they are a "second generation Chinese immigrant" and "heritage speaker"; that is, they live outside China, can speak the language because they learned it from their parents, but cannot read it.
Comment linking /cyborg-learning/
on “中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron”Submitted 中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDid you read part 3? Doesn’t sound like “avoiding hard things” is really a problem for the author :) https://blog.kevinzwu.com/symbolhead-syndrome/
Comment linking /symbolhead-syndrome/
on “中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron”