Hackernews posts about Gwern

1. The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf] (www.almendron.com)
   37 points by simonpure 27 days ago | 4 comments
2. Lean Software Scaling Laws (gwern.net)
   27 points by gmays 2 days ago | discuss
3. The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar [pdf] (gwern.net)
   7 points by mysticaltech- 16 days ago | discuss
4. Useful Outsourcing is Hard (2024) (gwern.net)
   5 points by dvrp 6 days ago | discuss
5. Guardian Angels (gwern.net)
   5 points by rishabhaiover 19 days ago | discuss
6. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (gwern.net)
   5 points by reasonableklout 30 days ago | discuss
7. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security (gwern.net)
   3 points by helloplanets 23 days ago | discuss
8. Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf] (gwern.net)
   3 points by networked 24 days ago | discuss
9. Personal Guardian Angel with LLM (gwern.net)
   3 points by rickybule 25 days ago | discuss
10. Lean 4 software scaling laws (gwern.net)
    2 points by yuppiemephisto 5 days ago | discuss
11. Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs (2016) (gwern.net)
    2 points by thoughtpeddler 8 days ago | discuss
12. Looking Back at the 'Fosse/Verdon' Dancing Legends That Inspired FX Series (variety.com)
    2 points by firasd 12 days ago | discuss
13. Action Preflight: consequence-aware admission for LLM agent actions (github.com)
    1 points by gfernandf1 5 days ago | 2 comments
14. PiLSMer: A data-free key-value store (norwood.github.io)
    2 points by gwen-shapira 26 days ago | discuss
15. Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog) [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by david_shi 17 days ago | discuss
16. Interview with gwern (www.dwarkeshpatel.com)
    308 points by synthmeat over 1 year ago | 247 comments
17. Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory (gwern.net)
    60 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 8 comments
18. Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video] (www.youtube.com)
    32 points by csours over 1 year ago | 4 comments
19. LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
    29 points by networked 6 months ago | 3 comments
20. Video Games as Art – Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    12 points by Antibabelic 5 months ago | discuss
21. Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History Interviews Gwern (2025) (gwern.net)
    6 points by cainxinth 5 months ago | discuss
22. Conferences As D&D Tabletops, by Gwern · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    5 points by lifeisstillgood 10 months ago | 1 comments
23. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format – Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    5 points by Antibabelic 5 months ago | discuss
24. gwern helps cool Earth (twitter.com)
    4 points by andyjsong about 1 year ago | 2 comments
25. Gwern on o3/o1 and distillation to small one-shot models (www.lesswrong.com)
    3 points by highfrequency over 1 year ago | discuss
26. Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia (old.reddit.com)
    3 points by MrBuddyCasino almost 2 years ago | discuss
27. Nicotine · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    2 points by bilsbie 10 months ago | 1 comments
28. Dwarkesh Patel Interview with Gwern (www.dwarkesh.com)
    2 points by Curiositry 4 months ago | discuss
29. Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (www.fermiquestions.org)
    35 points by danielfetz 11 months ago | 42 comments
30. Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?
    12 points by cl42 over 1 year ago | 13 comments
31. Show HN: Toy LLM Daydreaming (github.com)
    7 points by shahahmed 12 months ago | discuss
32. First, make me care (gwern.net)
    813 points by andsoitis 5 months ago | 249 comments
33. Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    482 points by gurjeet 4 months ago | 326 comments
34. Perfume reviews (gwern.net)
    325 points by surprisetalk 12 months ago | 183 comments
35. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
    308 points by theblazehen 5 months ago | 95 comments
36. The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    304 points by bambax about 2 months ago | 54 comments
37. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    303 points by rendx 4 months ago | 159 comments
38. Everything is correlated (2014–23) (gwern.net)
    264 points by gmays 11 months ago | 127 comments
39. Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)
    263 points by iNic over 1 year ago | 141 comments
40. Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)
    252 points by telotortium almost 2 years ago | 209 comments
41. Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    229 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 84 comments
42. LLM Daydreaming (gwern.net)
    218 points by nanfinitum 12 months ago | 145 comments
43. Magnesium Self-Experiments (gwern.net)
    193 points by rzk over 1 year ago | 131 comments
44. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    143 points by tsenturk 6 months ago | 59 comments
45. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    138 points by netfortius 7 months ago | 77 comments