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vaines.org
Personal blog · vaines.org/postsprogrammingcareerai
vaines.org is a personal blog at vaines.org about programming, career and ai. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one linked post, dated 2026-01-26, appears from its URL to be about JPEG compression, and a commenter says they wrote something similar about AI-generated filler in lists of bullet points.
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 Digital Plumber and Tech Lead
Most-linked posts?
- The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Nice article! I wrote something similar this year too after seeing the 5-bullet-points of information stretched out with AI homologous slop too many times. https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-01-26-jpeg-compression-for...
Comment linking /posts/2026-01-26-jpeg-compression-for-thought/
on “Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable”Submitted The comforting lie of sha pinning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sunk Cost Fallacy as a Feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ¡Hola, soy DORA. Why hasn't AI improved my metrics? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
