Which authors used 'scaling laws' on Hacker News in 2023 — all of them?

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Answer

The full roster with a count per author. There is no page 2.

Methodology

A ranked engine returns a sample and cannot say what fraction of the population you saw. Here the phrase is a predicate, the author roster is a GROUP BY, and the result is the population — the same shape answers any list-all-X-with-property-Y question.

Last verified: 2026-08-27

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SELECT author, count() AS n FROM internet.text WHERE relation='hackernews.items' AND ts >= '2023-01-01' AND ts < '2024-01-01' AND scry_lex('"scaling laws"') GROUP BY author ORDER BY n DESC LIMIT 500

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