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the greg technology blog
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the greg technology blog is a personal blog at blog.greg.technology about programming, ai and career. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on tinnitus and on running a programming contest. Comments discuss tinnitus as misfiring nerves and report on the contest's LLM-assisted writeups and results.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28
- GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-14
- Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-13
What Hacker News says?
Tinitus is misfiring nerves firing along the path somewhere from ear cochlea to cortex. From your description there is pain and discomfort for high frequencies also, it's not just a pure ringing that might even favor 1 ear? I did some research for a novel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA&t=4697s ) and learned that hearing is not too hard to understand, but it's mysterious in its perfection and a Job Wel…
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on “I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it”Submitted How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python as a story · 357 points
HN discussionThe contest ended a few days ago, some teams have already published their writeups. Usage of LLM-based tools appear to have mixed results. For example, I think #23 place claimed to have used nothing but AI[1], while the #24 place seems to be mostly manual code[2]. These are very good results considering they solved all problems, only 40 out of ~268 teams managed to do that[3]. [1] https://blog.greg.technology/2026/0…
Comment linking /2026/07/26/doing-okayish-with-ai-at-the-ai-proof-competition.html
on “I'm Running a Programming Contest”Submitted I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it as a story · 185 points
HN discussionhey, details are available on my blog (which is the link to this post) sorry that wasn't super clear -- https://blog.greg.technology/2023/10/17/macbook-battery-blew...
Comment linking /2023/10/17/macbook-battery-blew-up-what-to-do.html
on “Ask HN: My friend's MacBook battery blew up – what to do?”Submitted Instagram Addiction as a story · 126 points
HN discussionSubmitted The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glitch Is Killing Free Hosting, So I'm Saving One Special Corner of the Internet as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted I will cheerlead the fuck out of your project for a 0.1% equity stake as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20/80 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Garbagely Incompetent as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Six Favorite YouTube IDs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude.md, except it's meaningful and it works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PCBEval as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Networking with MikroTik as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-hosting High Availability is just Backups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Papertrail: You Used to Be Perfectly Ok as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the Desert, Bread as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kicking My Heroku Addiction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: All of My iPhone Alarms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can use GitHub Actions to track your web analytics for free (sorta) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Serializable' and other SQL isolation levels as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask HN: My friend's MacBook battery blew up – what to do? as a story · 1 points
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