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Matthew Honnibal
Personal blog · honnibal.dev/blogaiprogramming
Matthew Honnibal's personal blog at honnibal.dev covers ai and programming. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Back to our roots”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by HN readers for a blog post by the spaCy founder about the company's back-to-roots story, which one commenter holds up as an example of open, transparent communication from a tech executive.
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.
Matthew Honnibal is a computational linguist from Sydney based in Berlin, Germany. He's the author of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library and the co-founder of Explosion.
Most-linked posts?
- Back to our roots4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-07-17
- Why I don't think AI is a bubble2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-17
- The Looming AI Clownpocalypse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-01
What Hacker News says?
For a counter example of what open and transparent communincation from a C-level tech person could look like, have a read of what the SpaCy founder blogged about a few months ago: https://honnibal.dev/blog/back-to-our-roots
Comment linking /blog/back-to-our-roots
on “Mira Murati leaves OpenAI”Submitted Back to our roots as a story · 138 points
HN discussionformer employee here, Matt wrote a blogpost with pretty much all of the details here: https://honnibal.dev/blog/back-to-our-roots
Comment linking /blog/back-to-our-roots
on “SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python”Submitted Explosion Back to our roots: Company update and future plans as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I don't think AI is a bubble as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Looming AI Clownpocalypse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to Our Roots as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't think AI is a bubble as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Looming AI Clownpocalypse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs Don't Suffer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't think AI performance will plateau as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Style tips for less experienced developers coding with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussion