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Tor Håkon Haugen
Personal blog · blog.torh.netwritingai
Tor Håkon Haugen writes From thoughts to text, a personal blog at blog.torh.net about writing and ai. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Writing Is Hard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A personal blog on various topics. The comments only link to it as the commenter's own blog or cite a writing tip, with no judgement of the posts themselves.
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.
The personal blog of Tor Håkon Haugen
Most-linked posts?
- Writing Is Hard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-14
What Hacker News says?
I write various stuff at various times. https://blog.torh.net/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Writing Is Hard as a story · 170 points
HN discussion> (and editing ≠ writing) This. For many years I though I had to write like I read, that the words had to be perfect the first time -- like you are used to read. But the finished work is nothing like the first draft. Just write, don't stop even to fix typos. Never stop the flow. Then, once you have dumped your brain into words, leave it for a while and come back to do the editing later. Like Stephen King also mentio…
Comment linking /2022/06/14/writing-is-hard/
on “Show HN: Write 500 Words a Day”Submitted The digital natives are not who you think they are as a story · 103 points
HN discussionSubmitted Em Dash Is Fine – It Is AI That Sucks as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Through Stupidity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First Contact with Linux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do You Care? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Tips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps, activation codes and server-side validation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Writing a Meeting Agenda as a story · 1 points
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