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Caitlin Dewey
Personal blog · linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.comculturewriting
Caitlin Dewey writes Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends, a personal blog at linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com about culture and writing. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A Substack newsletter of links to longer pieces. One HN commenter recommends it as the best match for their interests, noting it publishes infrequently.
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.
A newsletter for curious, thoughtful readers who miss the “old” internet.
What Hacker News says?
There are a bunch of Substack newsletters that are basically collections of links to longer pieces. The one that most matches my interests is "Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends": https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/ . The only downside is that it doesn't publish that frequently. Literary Hub's weekly roundup is another good source of essays that take maybe 10 minutes to read. I find the meat of the new…
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on “Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service”Submitted Experts explain the legacy of GamerGate, 10 years after it started as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The internet's always been this bad as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Catharsis via Cloudflare. A visual essay on Internet traffic patterns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A glitch in the matrix of online shopping as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ground Control to Myspace Tom as a story · 1 points
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