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Max Mynter
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Max Mynter writes Relentlessly Curious, a personal blog at maxmynter.substack.com about programming and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in the thread 'The AI Elephant in the Room', discusses a study the post selected, questioning its methodology, sample size and journal against a broader meta-study. It does not judge the writing itself.
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.
Riffs on tech, software, pop culture, the occasional philosophy, vibes and what i'm generally on about in life.
What Hacker News says?
I hadn't looked at that study you selected, but yeah the methodology conflicts with the abstract (Also it low-key seems to be an ad for "Flexi 2.0.") It does seems to be a shady paper, with a small N and in a journal of questionable repute. That said, there are 80+ other studies listed in the meta-study, which is pretty frank about its limitations. (Note the snippets about positive biases in the conclusion.) It is g…
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on “The AI Elephant in the Room”Submitted Programming at the Edge of my Abilities for three months straight as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Porting Software as a Learning Hack – "Writing an Interpreter in Go" in Rust as a story · 2 points
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