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Recurse Center attendee's blog on summer projects gains traction on Hacker News

A personal write-up of study groups, AI experiments and small coding projects from a self-directed programmer retreat in Brooklyn climbed the Hacker News front page.

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What to know

  • The story is a personal blog post recapping a summer batch at Recurse Center, a self-directed programmer retreat in Brooklyn, not a breaking news event.
  • Content covers study groups on agentic LLMs, practical deep learning, math, and reverse-engineering a board game AI, plus a custom mini-language and a ZIP/DEFLATE deep dive.
  • The post gained modest traction on Hacker News (99 points, 27 comments) and was then mechanically mirrored by several Mastodon bot accounts that repost HN links.

bingden Blog author / Hacker News submitterCory Friend who recommended Recurse CenterJosh Recurse Center attendeeTony Recurse Center attendeeSophia Recurse Center attendeeKevan Recurse Center attendee

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    Automated Mastodon accounts mirror the Hacker News link

    Bot-like Mastodon accounts (h4ckernews@mastodon.social, hn50@social.lansky.name, hn100@social.lansky.name) repost the article link and its Hacker News discussion URL over the following hours into September 28.

    • hn100@social.lansky.name

      What I did at Recurse Center Link: https:// thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did -at-rc.html Discussion: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9869773

      hn100@social.lansky.nameMastodon1d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    Post reaches Hacker News front page

    User bingden submits the post to Hacker News; it accumulates 99 points and 27 comments and is separately picked up by an HN Frontpage RSS aggregator account.

    “I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory.”
    — thill.me blog author
  3. background

    Author publishes "What I did at Recurse Center" recap — The author posts a blog entry on thill.me detailing a summer batch at Recurse Center, including study groups on agentic LLMs, deep learning, math, a board-game AI, a small custom language called dodo, and a talk on ZIP file quirks.

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