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Theodidactus writes Brooding Omnipresence, a personal blog at broodingomnipresence.substack.com about writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this Substack as an example of using ChatGPT-style language models for open-ended legal questions, in a thread about GPT passing the bar exam.

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.

A blog about Common Law and Uncommon Laws.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Another example of "ChatGPT for open-ended law": https://broodingomnipresence.substack.com/p/brooding-omnipre... Tangentially related: DoNotPay's (probably illegal) plans to use LLMs in actual court sessions https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1612312707398795264

    Comment linking /p/brooding-omnipresent-ai

    on “Can GPT Pass the Bar Exam?”
  2. Submitted How Many Crimes Are There, and Why Does It Matter? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Criminal Law in Three Easy Cases as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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