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Anton Cebalo writes novum, a personal blog at novum.substack.com about culture and history. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “There Once Was an Empire”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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15HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2023

essays on culture, politics & history. Click to read novum, by Anton Cebalo, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. There Once Was an Empire
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-11
  2. The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-01
  3. What if your entire worldview was just because of low interest rates? (2022)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-11
  4. First Contact with America
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
  5. Living in a Time of Psychopolitics
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-14
  6. A Deep Dive Down the Memory Hole
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-22
  7. The Social Recession: By the Numbers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-23
  8. How the Locomotive Became a Metaphor for Modernity
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Maybe when the inflation starts dying down faster + the AI craze will continue to even greater heights then we'll see it coming back in full swing. We might never see it "back in full swing", the same way cobblers never did came back in full swing... https://novum.substack.com/p/what-if-worldview-zero-interest...

    Comment linking /p/what-if-worldview-zero-interest-rates

    on “Amazon Cutting Another 9k Jobs”
  2. Submitted The Social Recession: By the Numbers as a story · 248 points

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  3. Submitted Welcome to the Technocracy: Dreams of forgotten movement from the 1930s live on as a story · 35 points

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  4. Submitted The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) as a story · 10 points

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  5. Submitted There Once Was an Empire as a story · 6 points

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  6. Submitted A Deep Dive Down the Memory Hole as a story · 5 points

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  7. Submitted What if your entire worldview was just because of low interest rates? (2022) as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Alarm and Overload as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted On Weird America as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted First Contact with America as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Within the Context of No Context, Revisited as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted The Social Recession: By the Numbers (2022) as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted The Return of the World's Fair as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Maybe Real Modernity Has Only Just Started as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Memory Hole: How Amnesia Became Part of the Internet as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Politics Is Becoming an Ant Mill as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted The World of Dreampolitik as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted First Contact with America – Three Stories as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted First Contact with America as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted The New Vertigo Years as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Symphonies of Color as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted There Once Was an Empire as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted There Once Was an Empire as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Living in a Time of Psychopolitics as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted AI will never write a good novel as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Living in a Time of Psychopolitics as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Panic in the Skies as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted How the Locomotive Became a Metaphor for Modernity as a story · 1 points

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