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We Can Solve This
Personal blog · sandymaguire.me/blogprogrammingphilosophy
We Can Solve This is a personal blog at sandymaguire.me about programming and philosophy. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's post "Building over the Abyss", which discusses rereading LessWrong and finding it different from memory. The linked post is cited as background, not praised.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-19
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the feedback! The flub comment made me chuckle. This comment made me think of a post by Sandy Maguire that I read a little while back ( https://sandymaguire.me/blog/building-over-the-abyss/ ) > When I go back and read LessWrong, I’m awestruck by the apparent dissonance between my memories of it and the material in front of me. All I can remember about reading LW is a consistent and unending stream of insi…
Comment linking /blog/building-over-the-abyss/
on “Saying the Difficult Things”Submitted You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work as a story · 187 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized One-Night Stands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Double-Dipping in Dunning–Kruger (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moments of Strength as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making and Spending Money as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work as a story · 1 points
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