Hacker News: cyndunlop

Report on why developers use LLMs to write blog posts

cyndunlop — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:43:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/c_a_dunlop/status/2084662863071965514

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170545

Points: 3

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New species discovered on expedition to Channel Islands National Park

cyndunlop — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:05:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/new-species-channel-islands-22367099.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170005

Points: 3

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Why everything breaks at 150 people

cyndunlop — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:34:44 +0000

Article URL: https://falconer.com/notes/cerebras-knowledge-base/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123690

Points: 4

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Offloading I/O to Dedicated Cores: An Asymmetric io_uring Back end for Seastar

cyndunlop — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:31:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scylladb.com/2026/07/22/asymmetric-io_uring-backend-seastar/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116086

Points: 9

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Building the AI Retrieval Infrastructure Behind 20B+ Vectors at HubSpot

cyndunlop — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://product.hubspot.com/blog/building-the-ai-retrieval-infrastructure-behind-20-billion-vectors-at-hubspot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845387

Points: 3

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Write That Blog

cyndunlop — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:36:59 +0000

Article URL: https://writethat.blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823384

Points: 1

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In Defense of AI Mandates

cyndunlop — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:40:33 +0000

Article URL: https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-ai-mandates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769250

Points: 4

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Make AI Boring Again

cyndunlop — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-boring-again

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665799

Points: 6

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New comment by cyndunlop in "Why developers use LLMs to write blog posts"

cyndunlop — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:40:07 +0000

A survey to see why/how people were having LLMs write their articles. Some findings: - 40% of “always-LLM” writers never wrote before, 20% rarely wrote before - 72% of those who generated LLM drafts performed substantial editing, 23% totally rewrote the drafts - Only 13% felt LLMs captured their voice, only 11% felt LLMs captured their ideas - 73% did not disclose that they used LLMs to write

Why developers use LLMs to write blog posts

cyndunlop — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:40:07 +0000

Article URL: https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/report-llms-tech-blogs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646803

Points: 3

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At the Ambitious New A.I Museum, You Feel the Art, and It Feels You Right Back

cyndunlop — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:52:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/arts/design/dataland-ai-museum-los-angeles-art-artificial-intelligence.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645962

Points: 1

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New comment by cyndunlop in "How developers react to AI-scented blog posts"

cyndunlop — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:48:44 +0000

I knew people didn't like AI-scented articles, mainly wanted to see what specific actions people took when they encountered them.

Discord Automates ScyllaDB Clusters at Scale

cyndunlop — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:51:22 +0000

Article URL: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-automates-scylladb-clusters-at-scale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069218

Points: 3

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New comment by cyndunlop in "Ask HN: How do you feel about AI assisted blogging?"

cyndunlop — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:56:28 +0000

I actually started a survey on how people react to AI assisted blogging ~a week ago. It's at https://forms.gle/oskwkY12epMpXHAZ6 if you want to share there as well

You've Got (Too Much) Mail: Behind the Scenes of the 3/25/26 Voice Outage

cyndunlop — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:44:46 +0000

Article URL: https://discord.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-the-3-25-26-voice-outage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967310

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How do you respond to blog posts that seem AI assisted?

cyndunlop — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:06:54 +0000

When you hit an article that smells like AI, do you immediately click away? Hold your nose and keep reading if the topic is interesting? Take note of the author and never read their work again? Would it matter if a human authored it in another language then AI translated to English?

Please share in this survey (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNweiNKzIOsMLbJJ4cps0uQJS1DA4srdsVyDHh8l-Q6fDd0w/viewform?usp=header) and/or weigh in here

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838257

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Why/how do you use LLMs to draft tech blogs?

cyndunlop — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:20:54 +0000

I want to understand why/how people use LLMs to write tech blogs…not LLM-shaming, just genuinely curious. If you've tried it at least once, please respond to this 2-minute anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/RAK8sTPF8Ey24Ehs6 and also discuss here. I'll write up the results and share.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778602

Points: 2

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How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?

cyndunlop — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:15:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676690

Points: 7

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New comment by cyndunlop in "Show HN: We open-sourced our content writing workflow as a Claude Code skill"

cyndunlop — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:53:53 +0000

High memory usage in Postgres is good

cyndunlop — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:02:21 +0000

Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/high-memory-usage-in-postgres-is-good-actually

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579667

Points: 3

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