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Annalee Newitz
Personal blog · thehypothesis.substack.comscienceculture
Annalee Newitz's personal blog at thehypothesis.substack.com covers science and culture. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why Substack's scam worked so well”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack newsletter by Annalee Newitz for its posts on Substack allegedly paying writers to join the platform and on disinformation for hire. One commenter says it explains this better than they can.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Annalee Newitz is author of The Terraformers (coming 1/23). They are also the author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, Autonomous, and other books. They write for New Scientist, the Washington Post, Slate, and elsewhere. Click to read Annalee Newitz on Substack. Launched 2 year
Most-linked posts?
- Why Substack's scam worked so well3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-18
What Hacker News says?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: https://thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-substacks-sca...
Comment linking /p/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so
on “Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming”Submitted Why Substack's scam worked so well as a story · 36 points
HN discussionHere are some blogposts that can describe it better than I: https://thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-substacks-sca... https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-... https://www.vox.com/recode/22338802/substack-pro-newsletter-... The TL;DR is that Substack has allegedly paid large sums of money to bring writers onto their platform. The writers they've paid have historically been on one end of t…
Comment linking /p/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so
on “Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform”Submitted Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The internet as we know it is doomed as a story · 3 points
HN discussion