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Mark Frauenfelder
Personal blog · themagnet.substack.comcultureproductivity
Mark Frauenfelder writes The Magnet, a personal blog at themagnet.substack.com about culture and productivity. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mark Frauenfelder's Substack, linked for a post about why drawing bicycles is so hard. One commenter cites it in a joke that humans can't draw bikes either. No comment judges the writing.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
I mean, humans can't draw bikes! https://themagnet.substack.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-draw-a...
Comment linking /p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-draw-a-bike
on “GPT-5.6”Submitted Did I Just Switch Back to Windows? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Longest-Running Vaporware Project in the History of Computing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creation of the Humanoids as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Launching the Magnet as a story · 1 points
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