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Zhenyi Tan
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Zhenyi Tan writes Gibberish and Stuff, a personal blog at zhenyi.gibber.blog about ai and writing. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Technotes – Safari Apple Documentation Extension”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked blog is about a note-taking app for people who keep texting themselves, shared on HN as a Show HN launch. The one comment discusses the app's design rather than any writing.
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.
Hi, I am Zhenyi Tan and this is my Gibberish blog. You can also find me at And a Dinosaur and Mastodon.
Most-linked posts?
- Technotes – Safari Apple Documentation Extension2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-01
What Hacker News says?
This is really cool stuff, OP. Congrats on the launch! I like that you've taken an actual problem or use case you have and turned it into an app. I love seeing how other people solve similar problems. I've seen this other project [1] that is similar in idea, but the author there has opted to go for something that looks literally like a texting app. Yours looks more Slack-like, just going by the Mac version. Likewise…
Comment linking /gibberish-is-now-available-on-testflight
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