Philosophical Hacker

Most-linked posts?

1. Reading SQLite Schema Tables the Hard Way
   3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-02
2. Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench improvement contains a fatal error
   2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-04-26
3. My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-04
4. When should we create abstractions instead of duplication?
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-14

What Hacker News says?

1. ivalm · 2020-05-11

   I am curious what counts for “mid career”, he started coding ~6 years ago. Presumably he is in his 20s. Here him talking about leaving philosophy: https://www.philosophicalhacker.com/2014/04/22/why-im-glad-m... Edit: LinkedIn ~agrees with this estimate

   Comment linking /2014/04/22/why-im-glad-my-dream-job-didnt-work-out/

   on “My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs”
2. luu · 2020-05-10

   Submitted My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs as a story · 319 points

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3. kmdupree · 2026-04-26

   i disagree: https://www.philosophicalhacker.com/post/anthropic-error/

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   on “Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities”
4. kmdupree · 2019-08-17

   Submitted Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs as a story · 118 points

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5. kmdupree · 2014-05-26

   Submitted Why Paul Graham is sort of wrong about philosophy as a story · 56 points

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6. kmdupree · 2018-07-08

   Submitted Maybe We Should Go Easy on Uncle Bob as a story · 19 points

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7. kmdupree · 2020-05-14

   Submitted Should we refactor files we're working on? as a story · 5 points

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8. kmdupree · 2015-02-21

   Submitted Why Ayn Rand’s Psychology Is Probably Wrong (or Trivial) as a story · 5 points

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9. kmdupree · 2024-10-02

   Submitted Reading SQLite Schema Tables the Hard Way as a story · 3 points

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10. kmdupree · 2020-04-29

    Submitted Why and How We Should Calculate Expected Utility of Refactorings as a story · 3 points

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11. kmdupree · 2019-09-21

    Submitted Maybe Don't Write That Test as a story · 3 points

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12. kmdupree · 2019-05-17

    Submitted Lost in Local Optima: How life-benefitting, habit-forming apps wrong users as a story · 3 points

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13. aiNohY6g · 2018-11-12

    Submitted How Passion for Programming Can Make Us Worse at Our Jobs as a story · 3 points

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14. kmdupree · 2018-07-28

    Submitted Some Thoughts on How to Teach Programming as a story · 3 points

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15. yla92 · 2015-05-08

    Submitted Why Paul Graham Is (sort Of) Wrong About Philosophy (2014) as a story · 3 points

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16. kmdupree · 2014-06-09

    Submitted Why Larry Lessig's "MAYDAY" Might be more Urgent than we Realize as a story · 3 points

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17. jryio · 2026-04-29

    Submitted Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench improvement contains a fatal error as a story · 2 points

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18. kmdupree · 2026-04-28

    Submitted Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench improvement contains a fatal error as a story · 2 points

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19. kmdupree · 2025-08-29

    Submitted LLMs and the Russellian Inversion as a story · 2 points

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20. kmdupree · 2025-08-24

    Submitted LLMs and the Russellian Inversion as a story · 2 points

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21. aquastorm · 2024-10-04

    Submitted Reading SQLite Schema Tables the Hard Way as a story · 2 points

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22. mbellotti · 2020-12-02

    Submitted When should we create abstractions instead of duplication? as a story · 2 points

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23. kmdupree · 2020-10-19

    Submitted Programming and Forecasting as a story · 2 points

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24. kmdupree · 2019-05-27

    Submitted PMs Should Study Statistics: An Interactive Essay as a story · 2 points

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25. kmdupree · 2018-03-18

    Submitted From Panic Attack to Yoga Mat: Startups, Leadership, and 1000 Minutes Meditating as a story · 2 points

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26. kmdupree · 2016-10-16

    Submitted TDD and Startups as a story · 2 points

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27. kmdupree · 2016-08-24

    Submitted CodeTalk: A better way to talk about code as a story · 2 points

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28. kmdupree · 2015-06-25

    Submitted Taylor Swift, Photographers, and “Working for Nothing” as a story · 2 points

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29. kmdupree · 2014-06-12

    Submitted What Gödel would say about Java Class Definitions as a story · 2 points

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30. kmdupree · 2014-06-10

    Submitted Should the Idea Person get Extra Equity? as a story · 2 points

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