THE mahl BLOG
Occasional notes from Georges and Louis. No schedule, no theme.
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On posting AI slop on HN
People could feel that some of my sentences were built by an AI, and they hated it. Let's analyze it. This time I'm not using AI, it's 100% handwritten, I promise.
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The spell that wouldn't leave
On reading Terry Pratchett at sixteen, in the back of a French classroom, and a sentence that has been kicking over the furniture in my head ever since.
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HN isn't swamped yet, just obsessed with AI
I counted eleven years of Hacker News submissions over a fixed two-week window. The volume barely moved, but the share of posts about AI went from 3.5% to 24.8%.
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Product Hunt is swamped now
A small Product Hunt scrape puts a number on how much launch volume changed after 2023.
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ETF et market timing : le coût statistique de l'attente
Les ETF se sont imposés en quelques années auprès des particuliers français. Leur démocratisation n'a pas réglé la question du moment d'entrée, sur laquelle les données disponibles laissent peu de marge d'interprétation.
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LMNP : la niche fiscale n'est pas morte, mais elle a changé de nature
Pendant quinze ans, le statut de loueur en meublé non professionnel a été l'un des arbitrages les plus efficaces du patrimoine immobilier français. La loi de finances 2025 en redéfinit le périmètre, sans le supprimer.
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Hello, world
A first post on the shared mahl.me blog. Both brothers will write here.
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How I started RETCO
From PriceHubble to INSEAD to RETCO to Soneka, with a few wrong turns in between.