Hackernews posts about Gwern

1. The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)
   293 points by bambax 3 days ago | 53 comments
2. NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022) (gwern.net)
   126 points by Ariarule 8 days ago | 83 comments
3. Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (gwern.net)
   40 points by birdculture 4 days ago | 1 comments
4. 'Try, Score, Change': Reinforcement Learning for Children (gwern.net)
   7 points by helloplanets 13 days ago | 2 comments
5. Donald E. Knuth: The letter S [pdf] (gwern.net)
   7 points by tzury 6 days ago | discuss
6. Some Proposals for Reviving the Philosophy of Mathematics (1979) [pdf] (gwern.net)
   4 points by sebg 10 days ago | discuss
7. The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf] (gwern.net)
   3 points by simonpure 16 days ago | discuss
8. The Explore-Exploit Dilemma in Media Consumption (2016) (gwern.net)
   2 points by mcmoor 5 days ago | discuss
9. Claude Leak Confirms It: LLM Systems Are Architecture, Not Prompts (Orca) (github.com)
   2 points by gfernandf1 25 days ago | 2 comments
10. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
    514 points by gwerbret 28 days ago | 87 comments
11. Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You (2020) (steve-yegge.medium.com)
    5 points by gwerbret 3 days ago | 1 comments
12. Show HN: Werner – A native Markdown editor for macOS with four view modes (apps.apple.com)
    3 points by artem2471 28 days ago | 5 comments
13. Show HN: Ytree v3.0.0-alpha, an AI-assisted rewrite towards feature completeness (github.com)
    1 points by robkam 11 days ago | discuss
14. Interview with gwern (www.dwarkeshpatel.com)
    308 points by synthmeat over 1 year ago | 247 comments
15. Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory (gwern.net)
    60 points by surprisetalk 6 months ago | 8 comments
16. Gwern comments on Ilya Sutskever depature from OpenAI, among other topics (old.reddit.com)
    34 points by jseliger almost 2 years ago | 5 comments
17. Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video] (www.youtube.com)
    32 points by csours over 1 year ago | 4 comments
18. LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
    29 points by networked 4 months ago | 3 comments
19. Video Games as Art – Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    12 points by Antibabelic 4 months ago | discuss
20. Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History Interviews Gwern (2025) (gwern.net)
    6 points by cainxinth 3 months ago | discuss
21. Conferences As D&D Tabletops, by Gwern · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    5 points by lifeisstillgood 9 months ago | 1 comments
22. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format – Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    5 points by Antibabelic 4 months ago | discuss
23. gwern helps cool Earth (twitter.com)
    4 points by andyjsong 11 months ago | 2 comments
24. Gwern on o3/o1 and distillation to small one-shot models (www.lesswrong.com)
    3 points by highfrequency over 1 year ago | discuss
25. Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia (old.reddit.com)
    3 points by MrBuddyCasino almost 2 years ago | discuss
26. Nicotine · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    2 points by bilsbie 9 months ago | 1 comments
27. Dwarkesh Patel Interview with Gwern (www.dwarkesh.com)
    2 points by Curiositry 3 months ago | discuss
28. Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (www.fermiquestions.org)
    35 points by danielfetz 10 months ago | 42 comments
29. Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?
    12 points by cl42 over 1 year ago | 13 comments
30. Show HN: Toy LLM Daydreaming (github.com)
    7 points by shahahmed 10 months ago | discuss
31. First, make me care (gwern.net)
    813 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 249 comments
32. Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    482 points by gurjeet 3 months ago | 326 comments
33. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] (gwern.net)
    425 points by hardmaru almost 2 years ago | 391 comments
34. Perfume reviews (gwern.net)
    325 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 183 comments
35. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
    308 points by theblazehen 3 months ago | 95 comments
36. The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    303 points by rendx 3 months ago | 159 comments
37. Everything is correlated (2014–23) (gwern.net)
    264 points by gmays 9 months ago | 127 comments
38. Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)
    263 points by iNic over 1 year ago | 141 comments
39. Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)
    252 points by telotortium over 1 year ago | 209 comments
40. Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    229 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 84 comments
41. LLM Daydreaming (gwern.net)
    218 points by nanfinitum 10 months ago | 145 comments
42. Magnesium Self-Experiments (gwern.net)
    193 points by rzk about 1 year ago | 131 comments
43. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    143 points by tsenturk 5 months ago | 59 comments