Hacker News with Generative AI: Personal Essays

On: Lisp, on Lisp, and My­Self (pyrope.net)
Com­mon Lisp, On Lisp, and me? What more could you ask for in a blog post
Never Forgive Them (wheresyoured.at)
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise.
Never Forgive Them (wheresyoured.at)
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise.
Never Forgive Them (wheresyoured.at)
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise.
Optimistic Computing (deobald.ca)
I recently made two new friends: Abhinav Omprakash and Dawn Walker. Abhinav said I’m an optimist and I should write about it. Dawn said I shouldn’t try to coin any new terms.
The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood (shreyans.org)
His arrival, our survival, and many transformations.
Slow Email (2008) (blogspot.com)
I've never been a slow-anything person, other than riding slowly up mountains, and that's only because of the weakness of flesh, not any unwillingness of spirit. So it's not often that I embrace a Slow movement.
Adventures with Jean (theamericanscholar.org)
Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt
Boredom is an invitation to slow down (papanotes.com)
It's 3:22 p.m., and I'm sitting in the clinic's waiting room. They send you to this place when you have an emergency that isn't urgent enough for the ER.I'm here with my daughter, who needs to see a doc. (She's good now)A few other kids are in the waiting room—all with only one of their parents.
My job is to watch dreams die (2011) (reddit.com)
Late Again (randsinrepose.com)
The secret lives of snowblowers (lcamtuf.substack.com)
After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table (nytimes.com)
I will never get to go to Hong Kong (noahpinion.blog)
Why Did She Stop Writing? (texasmonthly.com)
Confessions from an Unpleasant Woman (woodfromeden.substack.com)
My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity (wordpress.com)
Tales from an Attic (theamericanscholar.org)
I'm Not Having Kids (and That's Okay) (ashlybq.substack.com)
Why I'm Leaving New York City [video] (youtube.com)