Hackernews posts about Gwern

1. Video Games as Art – Gwern.net (gwern.net)
   12 points by Antibabelic 27 days ago | discuss
2. Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History Interviews Gwern (2025) (gwern.net)
   6 points by cainxinth 4 days ago | discuss
3. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format – Gwern.net (gwern.net)
   5 points by Antibabelic 27 days ago | discuss
4. First, make me care (gwern.net)
   813 points by andsoitis 27 days ago | 249 comments
5. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
   306 points by theblazehen 6 days ago | 95 comments
6. Video Games as Art (gwern.net)
   101 points by andsoitis 27 days ago | 76 comments
7. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011) (gwern.net)
   93 points by teej 21 days ago | 23 comments
8. Adding Bits Beats AI Slop (2025) (gwern.net)
   7 points by Brajeshwar 13 days ago | discuss
9. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format (gwern.net)
   4 points by gildas 26 days ago | discuss
10. The Great Automatic Grammatizator – Roald Dahl (1954) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    3 points by adityaathalye 11 days ago | discuss
11. The Professionalization of Cryptology in Sixteenth-Century Venice (2018) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    3 points by simonebrunozzi 27 days ago | discuss
12. Dual N-Back (gwern.net)
    1 points by aggrrrh 18 days ago | discuss
13. Book: "Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch." (mathstodon.xyz)
    2 points by sohkamyung 25 days ago | discuss
14. What does Werner Herzog's nihilist penguin teach us? (2017) (lwlies.com)
    35 points by Marceltan 24 days ago | 40 comments
15. Interview with gwern (www.dwarkeshpatel.com)
    308 points by synthmeat over 1 year ago | 247 comments
16. Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory (gwern.net)
    60 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 8 comments
17. Gwern comments on Ilya Sutskever depature from OpenAI, among other topics (old.reddit.com)
    34 points by jseliger over 1 year ago | 5 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 about 1 month ago | 3 comments
20. Conferences As D&D Tabletops, by Gwern · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    5 points by lifeisstillgood 6 months ago | 1 comments
21. gwern helps cool Earth (twitter.com)
    4 points by andyjsong 8 months ago | 2 comments
22. Gwern on o3/o1 and distillation to small one-shot models (www.lesswrong.com)
    3 points by highfrequency about 1 year ago | discuss
23. Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia (old.reddit.com)
    3 points by MrBuddyCasino over 1 year ago | discuss
24. Nicotine · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    2 points by bilsbie 6 months ago | 1 comments
25. Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (www.fermiquestions.org)
    35 points by danielfetz 7 months ago | 42 comments
26. Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?
    12 points by cl42 about 1 year ago | 13 comments
27. Show HN: Toy LLM Daydreaming (github.com)
    7 points by shahahmed 7 months ago | discuss
28. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] (gwern.net)
    425 points by hardmaru over 1 year ago | 391 comments
29. Perfume reviews (gwern.net)
    325 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 183 comments
30. Everything is correlated (2014–23) (gwern.net)
    264 points by gmays 6 months ago | 127 comments
31. Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)
    263 points by iNic over 1 year ago | 141 comments
32. Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)
    252 points by telotortium over 1 year ago | 209 comments
33. Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    229 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 84 comments
34. LLM Daydreaming (gwern.net)
    218 points by nanfinitum 7 months ago | 145 comments
35. Magnesium Self-Experiments (gwern.net)
    193 points by rzk 12 months ago | 131 comments
36. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    143 points by tsenturk about 2 months ago | 59 comments
37. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    138 points by netfortius 3 months ago | 77 comments
38. Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    113 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago | 37 comments
39. Self-Funding Harberger Taxes (gwern.net)
    99 points by surprisetalk about 1 year ago | 92 comments
40. Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022) (gwern.net)
    86 points by james_impliu 10 months ago | 100 comments
41. Plumbing vs. Internet, Revisited (gwern.net)
    69 points by Ariarule 4 months ago | 33 comments
42. Towards Nyquist Learners (gwern.net)
    66 points by sleepingreset over 1 year ago | 53 comments
43. Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf] (gwern.net)
    62 points by nkko about 2 months ago | 20 comments
44. How Should We Critique Research? (2019) (gwern.net)
    51 points by lazyjeff almost 2 years ago | 10 comments