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Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

Personal blog · preservinghope.substack.comsciencehealth

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston writes Preserving Hope, a personal blog at preservinghope.substack.com about science and health. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “There's Always a First”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
3HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2025

Tracking progress in turning fate into choice through brain preservation. Official newsletter of the Brain Preservation Foundation.

Most-linked posts?

  1. There's Always a First
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-21
  2. Is Terminal Lucidity Real?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Is Terminal Lucidity Real? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted What Is Death? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted According to doctors, how feasible is preserving the dying for future revival? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Bad brains will bottleneck connectomics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted We Haven't Uploaded a Fly Yet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted New Thought Experiments for Probing Personal Identity and Survival as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Setting standards for brain preservation quality as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Memory Decoding Challenge: $100k for decoding from a preserved brain as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Brain preservation as existential risk reduction as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Why is assisted dying so rare, even where it's legal? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A hundred grand for one more year as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Is Terminal Lucidity Real? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted There's Always a First as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted There's Always a First as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted There's Always a First as a story · 1 points

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