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Marek Chotoborski
Personal blog · zanlib.dev/blogprogrammingcareer
Marek Chotoborski writes zanlib, a personal blog at zanlib.dev about programming and career. Since 2026, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Reliable Signals of Honest Intent”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Marek Chotoborski's personal blog, linked for a React number-inputs post and cited for the idea that AI-written text can be spotted by its uncanny feel.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I work with domain experts to turn their knowledge into software. Whether that's clinical trials for cancer research or enterprise accounting systems, I learn enough about the field to understand the problem and help decide what to build.
Most-linked posts?
- Reliable Signals of Honest Intent4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-20
- Do you still read the code?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-14
What Hacker News says?
Lesswrong for both sidebars: the heading based TOC on the left, and the margin notes on the right: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bJ2haLkcGeLtTWaD5/welcome-to... For interactive / code snippets Maxime Heckel: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-study-of-shaders-wit... Honorable mentions Maggie Applebaum https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment Marek Chotoborski https://zanlib.dev/blog/number-inputs-in-react/…
Comment linking /blog/number-inputs-in-react/
on “Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs the are a joy to read”Submitted Do you still read the code? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThat seems normal for an interview problem. They put you in front of some already-written code and you have to fix a bug or implement a feature. I've done tons of those in live interviews. So that part didn't bother me. It's mostly the rather large effort cost in the case where the person is a job applicant, vs an unknown and maybe quite low chance of getting hired. With a live interview, you get past a phone screen…
Comment linking /blog/reliable-signals-of-honest-intent/
on “Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced”Submitted On TypeScript's Flaws (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> the description as "the next evolution of sqlite" is offensive That marketing is really the one thing that keeps me from considering this as a serious option. To callback to an article a few days ago, it's a signal of dishonest intent [1], and why in the world would I use the alternative built by apparently dishonest people when sqlite is right there and has one of the best track records in the industry. [1] https…
Comment linking /blog/reliable-signals-of-honest-intent/
on “Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite”Submitted "Do You Still Read the Code?" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOther people might point to more specific tells, but instead I'll reference https://zanlib.dev/blog/reliable-signals-of-honest-intent/ , which says that you can tell mainly because of the subconscious uncanny valley effect, and then you start noticing the tells afterwards. Here, there's a handful of specific phrases or patterns, but mostly it's just that the writing feels very AI-written (or at least AI-edited). It'…
Comment linking /blog/reliable-signals-of-honest-intent/
on “The Human in the Loop”Submitted Reliable Signals of Honest Intent as a story · 1 points
HN discussion