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Taylor G. Lunt
Personal blog · taylor.gl/blog · on HN as contradistinctprogrammingculture
Taylor G. Lunt writes Fool Heart, a personal blog at taylor.gl about programming and culture. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “How I Made the Front Page of Hacker News with AI Slop”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment links this blog's post on Big Tech and the golden age of programming. The commenter cites the author's own admission about how the piece was produced, not the post's content.
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Taylor G. Lunt — full-stack developer. Software of consequence.
Most-linked posts?
- How I Made the Front Page of Hacker News with AI Slop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-31
What Hacker News says?
I wrote about this here: https://taylor.gl/blog/6/ It seems to be psychologically easier to justify adding things than removing them.
Comment linking /blog/6/
on “Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving”Submitted Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming as a story · 128 points
HN discussionNothing is ever invented by the person it's named after [1]. [1]: https://taylor.gl/blog/11
Comment linking /blog/11
on “The Babylonians used Pythagorean ideas long before Pythagoras”Submitted You People Keep Contradicting Yourselves as a story · 31 points
HN discussionAuthor admits that this was AI generated slop: https://www.taylor.gl/blog/30
Comment linking /blog/30
on “Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming”Submitted How to walk upright and stop living in a cave as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Made the Front Page of Hacker News with AI Slop as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Naming Adages After People and Calling Them Laws as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caveat Lector – A Generic List of Caveats for Any Essay or Article as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kitchen-Sink Complexity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Found Crime and Punishment Boring as a story · 1 points
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