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Mark Neyer
Personal blog · apxhard.comphilosophyprogramming
Mark Neyer writes apxhard, a personal blog at apxhard.com about philosophy and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “How it feels to eat half a cookie”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is a personal piece about how it feels to eat exactly half a cookie. The one comment only asks whether it is the article someone was thinking of and does not judge 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.
Former Google, Early Uber Employee. Exploring the intersection of computing and faith. Our brains are computers. Wisdom traditions are ancient source code. Memoir here: https://amazon.com/dp/B0GZDMXJBG.
Most-linked posts?
- How it feels to eat half a cookie2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-23
What Hacker News says?
Was it this? https://apxhard.com/2019/09/21/how-it-feels-to-eat-exactly-h...
Comment linking /2019/09/21/how-it-feels-to-eat-exactly-half-a-cookie/
on “Ask HN: What’s the article about eating half a cookie?”Submitted Are you hosting a memetic parasite? as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private Property and Social Hierarchies as Concurrency Control Mechanisms as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Libertarian Utopias Require Boatloads of Computation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Economies and Empires Are Artificial General Intelligences as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Are Computers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How it feels to eat half a cookie as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Popular Culture as Distributed Lookup Table as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
