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Matt Sayar
Personal blog · mattsayar.com · on HN as MattSayarprogrammingculture
Matt Sayar's personal blog at mattsayar.com covers programming and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Personalized software is coming, but not today. Maybe tomorrow?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Personalized software is coming, but not today. Maybe tomorrow?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-22
- I didn't want to pay for an RSS newsletter email service so I built my own2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-11
- Why is AI slop so easy to spot but hard to detect?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
- Building games with LLMs to help my kid learn math2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-03
- I'm tired of dismissive anti-AI bias2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-10
- Just pick a static site generator and start writing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Same. And I JUST tried their GitHub Action agentic thing yesterday (wrote about it here[0]), and it honestly didn't perform very well. I should try it again with Claude 4 and see if there are any differences. Should be an easy test [0] https://mattsayar.com/personalized-software-really-is-coming...
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on “Claude 4”Submitted Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? as a story · 607 points
HN discussionAgree those tools are unreliable. Unless you have a massive amount of ML models trained on individuals' writing[0], the best you can do is vibe-checking[1]. [0] https://mattsayar.com/can-ai-tell-if-im-writing-ai-slop-a-ma... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
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on “Solarpunk is happening in Africa”Submitted Using AI to secure AI as a story · 101 points
HN discussionI love this, and yes can completely relate. The last side project I got absorbed into[0] completely consumed me for a weekend. I was driven like a man possessed to finish it before Monday. I had to leave the house and stake out a corner in a coffee shop to concentrate. The scope of the project was perfect: it was small enough to do in a weekend, I was building something I needed, and something that could help others…
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on “The blissful Zen of a good side project”Submitted I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI've settled on posting interesting links to BlueSky and then I put a Bsky sidebar on my site[0]. It's a win-win; I have the small links+comments "on" my site, but the longer stuff that gets posted to RSS/newsletter to my site proper. [0] https://mattsayar.com
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on “Build a link blog like Simon Willison”Submitted Show HN: I turned my kid's worksheet into a math game in 10 minutes with Claude as a story · 76 points
HN discussionI tried to make an artifact that would simplify Wikipedia articles [0] but the artifacts stubbornly won't let you do ANY input into them, not even via query strings. I think I'd be able to make cooler artifacts once they allow more input/output stuff. I understand the security issues, and it makes sense to roll this out slowly, but I want it now! [0] ended up making it a browser extension instead https://mattsayar.c…
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on “Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts”Submitted I ditched my Pi-hole but still block ads with NextDNS as a story · 69 points
HN discussionhttps://www.mattsayar.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Where are the best restaurants in my city? A statistical analysis as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hacked my company's SSO provider as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Superman Can't Use Facebook as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have personalized software now as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes, we still need engineers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm tired of dismissive anti-AI bias as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What it's like creating a simple free website in 2025 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does everyone hate WebP? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're not shouting into the void: Your website will outlast all social media as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I didn't want to pay for an RSS newsletter email service so I built my own as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just pick a static site generator and start writing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building games with LLMs to help my kid learn math as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is AI slop so easy to spot but hard to detect? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much does the "new BMI" say you should weigh? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How close should you live to a park? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How often does my home's IP address change? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I didn't want to pay for an RSS newsletter service so I built my own as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Colorado's EV incentive worth it? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building and hosting a website in under three minutes as a story · 2 points
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