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Max Hodak
Personal blog · maxhodak.com · on HN as friscoscienceaiphilosophy
Max Hodak's personal blog at maxhodak.com covers science, ai and philosophy. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Thinking of the Children”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Max Hodak's site, linked for posts on brain-computer interfaces and on replicating a desktop. The comments give the link or cite the post without judging the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Thinking of the Children3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-15
- Artificial intelligence will be here soon3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-30
- The Next Button2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-15
- The Vanishing Computer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-11
- The Binding Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-06
- How I Use Dropbox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-16
What Hacker News says?
brain computer interfaces apparently https://maxhodak.com/
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on “Some Amazon divisions have lost at least 35% of their staff in the past year”Submitted A Science Corporation as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI think this is the client I want to use for replicating my desktop like Max Hodak describes[1]. It sure has enough options for target storage. It boasts client-side encryption, but the author says that "In terms of speed, Syncany only transfers the changes of files, so if you change only a couple of bytes of a 100 MB file, only those bytes which have changed will be transferred (+ some more)[2]." Sounds like it use…
Comment linking /notes/2011/05/30/dropbox.html
on “Syncany is a FLOS, versioned, encrypted, byo-storage Dropbox clone”Submitted Raising Transcriptic's Seed Round as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Use Dropbox as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Things as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking of the Children as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Relativity, Anyway? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Buggy technology is indistinguishable from malware as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Give Up (2016) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Binding Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Max Hodak – Investing in Synchron as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking of the Children as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking of the Children as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Management by Laziness (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Max Hodak – What is Heisenberg uncertainty, anyway? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artificial intelligence will be here soon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Next Button as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mindstate Design Labs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking of the Children as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is relativity, anyway? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artificial intelligence will be here soon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The US Banking System Is Insecure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Binding Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perverse Incentives Are Endemic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Next Button as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artificial intelligence will be here soon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Words Mean Anything? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Words Mean Anything? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Vanishing Computer as a story · 1 points
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