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Adam Mellion
Personal blog · allvisibleobjects.substack.comwritinghistory
Adam Mellion writes All Visible Objects, a personal blog at allvisibleobjects.substack.com about writing and history. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on 'Ahab's Leg Dilemma'. The one comment points readers to two follow-up pieces, one of them an extract, continuing the same topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Investigations into Herman Melville and Moby-Dick.
What Hacker News says?
Looks like there’s two follow-up articles to this: https://allvisibleobjects.substack.com/p/the-leg-dilemma-par... https://allvisibleobjects.substack.com/p/extracts-ahabs-leg-...
Comment linking /p/extracts-ahabs-leg-dilemma-pt-3
on “Ahab's Leg Dilemma”Submitted Ahab's Leg Dilemma as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Leg Dilemma; Or, Can We Figure Out Which Leg Ahab Was Missing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion