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The typical set
Personal blog · thetypicalset.com/blogprogrammingaibusiness
The typical set is a personal blog at thetypicalset.com about programming, ai and business. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on the post about grammar parser maintenance. The one comment shares a graph of visited articles and does not comment on the writing itself.
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.
👋 I am Rémi (email, twitter, Github) You’ve set foot on the typical set, a subset of my personal notes, my blog, longform write-ups.
What Hacker News says?
Yeah. This one shows a graph: https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/grammar-parser-maintenanc... Solid red dots are articles you've visited.
Comment linking /blog/grammar-parser-maintenance-contract?trail=blog%2Fthoughts-on-coding-agents
on “The bottleneck was never the code”Submitted A Comma and a Question Mark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I run my company from Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The bottleneck was never the code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models as a story · 1 points
HN discussion