Hackernews posts about Gwern

  1. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    143 points by tsenturk 14 days ago | 59 comments
  2. Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf] (gwern.net)
    62 points by nkko 2 days ago | 20 comments
  3. Breaking Paragraphs into Lines [pdf] (1981) (gwern.net)
    37 points by Smaug123 26 days ago | 7 comments
  4. Typesetting Poetry in HTML (gwern.net)
    7 points by gwern 2 days ago | discuss
  5. Adding Bits Beats AI Slop (gwern.net)
    4 points by networked 24 days ago | discuss
  6. Poetry HTML Typesetting (gwern.net)
    2 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | discuss
  7. Guernsey group backs Australia-style teen social media ban (www.bbc.com)
    1 points by divbzero 27 days ago | discuss
  8. The Graffiti Question (www.guernicamag.com)
    20 points by bryanrasmussen 24 days ago | 34 comments
  9. Public Domain Day 2026 (copyrightlately.com)
    4 points by gweinberg 6 days ago | 1 comments
  10. Werner Herzog Trolling Elon Musk with Silence [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by doener 21 days ago | discuss
  11. Werner Vogels Is Right (tsak.dev)
    4 points by tsak 18 days ago | discuss
  12. WASM Does Not Stand for WebAssembly (thunderseethe.dev)
    2 points by swernli 14 days ago | 3 comments
  13. Interview with gwern (www.dwarkeshpatel.com)
    308 points by synthmeat about 1 year ago | 247 comments
  14. Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory (gwern.net)
    60 points by surprisetalk about 2 months ago | 8 comments
  15. Gwern comments on Ilya Sutskever depature from OpenAI, among other topics (old.reddit.com)
    34 points by jseliger over 1 year ago | 5 comments
  16. Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video] (www.youtube.com)
    32 points by csours about 1 year ago | 4 comments
  17. Conferences As D&D Tabletops, by Gwern · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    5 points by lifeisstillgood 4 months ago | 1 comments
  18. gwern helps cool Earth (twitter.com)
    4 points by andyjsong 7 months ago | 2 comments
  19. Gwern on o3/o1 and distillation to small one-shot models (www.lesswrong.com)
    3 points by highfrequency 12 months ago | discuss
  20. Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia (old.reddit.com)
    3 points by MrBuddyCasino over 1 year ago | discuss
  21. Nicotine · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    2 points by bilsbie 4 months ago | 1 comments
  22. Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (www.fermiquestions.org)
    35 points by danielfetz 5 months ago | 42 comments
  23. Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?
    12 points by cl42 about 1 year ago | 13 comments
  24. Show HN: Toy LLM Daydreaming (github.com)
    7 points by shahahmed 6 months ago | discuss
  25. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] (gwern.net)
    425 points by hardmaru over 1 year ago | 391 comments
  26. Perfume reviews (gwern.net)
    325 points by surprisetalk 6 months ago | 183 comments
  27. Everything is correlated (2014–23) (gwern.net)
    264 points by gmays 5 months ago | 127 comments
  28. Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)
    263 points by iNic about 1 year ago | 141 comments
  29. Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)
    252 points by telotortium over 1 year ago | 209 comments
  30. Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    229 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 84 comments
  31. LLM Daydreaming (gwern.net)
    218 points by nanfinitum 6 months ago | 145 comments
  32. Magnesium Self-Experiments (gwern.net)
    193 points by rzk 10 months ago | 131 comments
  33. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    138 points by netfortius about 1 month ago | 77 comments
  34. Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    113 points by bookofjoe about 1 month ago | 37 comments
  35. Self-Funding Harberger Taxes (gwern.net)
    99 points by surprisetalk about 1 year ago | 92 comments
  36. Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022) (gwern.net)
    86 points by james_impliu 9 months ago | 100 comments
  37. Plumbing vs. Internet, Revisited (gwern.net)
    69 points by Ariarule 2 months ago | 33 comments
  38. Towards Nyquist Learners (gwern.net)
    66 points by sleepingreset about 1 year ago | 53 comments
  39. How Should We Critique Research? (2019) (gwern.net)
    51 points by lazyjeff over 1 year ago | 10 comments
  40. Time-Lock Encryption (gwern.net)
    37 points by rzk 10 months ago | 4 comments
  41. You could have invented Transformers (gwern.net)
    34 points by jxmorris12 8 months ago | discuss
  42. Cats as Horror Movie Villains (gwern.net)
    32 points by mparramon 6 months ago | 39 comments