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Mostly Harmless
Personal blog · jlowin.dev/blogaiprogramming
Mostly Harmless is a personal blog at jlowin.dev about ai and programming. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “An intuitive guide to how LLMs work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mostly Harmless is Jeremy Lowin's personal blog. The one linked post, judging by its URL slug, is an open-source maintainers' guide to saying no. The comment praises the blog's comment system, not 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.
Fueled by lemons.
Most-linked posts?
- An intuitive guide to how LLMs work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-07
- An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-13
- FastMCP 3.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-20
What Hacker News says?
I've enjoyed the comment system on https://www.jlowin.dev/blog/oss-maintainers-guide-to-saying-... which seems to pull from Hacker News and Bluesky when the author has posted the article directly.
Comment linking /blog/oss-maintainers-guide-to-saying-no
on “I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse”Submitted An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no” as a story · 195 points
HN discussionSubmitted FastMCP 3.0 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Intuitive Guide to How LLMs Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An intuitive guide to how LLMs work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FastMCP 3.0 Is GA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FastMCP 3.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inverted Agent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Converting Your REST APIs to MCP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Vibe Testing Your MCP Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Call It an Office as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Total Recall: ControlFlow v0.10 – Simple, persistent memory for AI agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Directed Agentic Graphs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Colin - A context engine that keeps agent skills fresh as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Reasoning: Anthropic's Agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussion