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The Linchpin
Personal blog · linch.substack.comaiphilosophy
The Linchpin is a personal blog at linch.substack.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “How Stealth Works”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
The art of noticing what matters. Finding and sharing the weird and wonderful patterns of the world.
Most-linked posts?
- How Stealth Works3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-08
- Claude, Author of the Humanitas3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
- Why Are We All Cowards?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-23
- Why Reality Has a Well-Known Math Bias2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-27
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing as a story · 293 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eating Honey Is (Probably) Fine as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Puzzle of War as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Stealth Works as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Are We All Cowards? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Field Guide to Writing Styles as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intellectual Jokes That Teach as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Reality Has a Well-Known Math Bias as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is neuralese and why is it bad? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Frame Error as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Stealth Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Stealth Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Reality Has a Well-Known Math Bias as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rising Premium for Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evidence that the first papal encyclical on AI was substantially written by AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude, Author of the Humanitas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude, Author of the Humanitas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kimi, Author of the Menard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tomas Bjartur: The Last Prodigy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unknown Knowns: Five Ideas You Can't Unsee as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which Ways of Knowing Work? Building an Epistemology Tier List as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Baby's Guide to Anthropics as a story · 1 points
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