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David Mack's personal blog at davidmack.medium.com covers ai. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “What I learned from building a ProGAN for porn”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment is a bare link, so the linked post is described from its URL and thread: lessons the author learned from building a PyTorch implementation of Google's Imagen text-to-image network.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. What I learned from building a ProGAN for porn
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://davidmack.medium.com/what-i-learned-from-building-an...

    Comment linking /what-i-learned-from-building-an-ai-that-generates-porn-ba1f47b2035f

    on “Implementation of Imagen, Google's text-to-image neural network, in PyTorch”
  2. Submitted What I learned from building a ProGAN for porn as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A guess at how o1-preview works as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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