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Dave Barry
Personal blog · davebarry.substack.comculturewriting
Dave Barry's personal blog at davebarry.substack.com covers culture and writing. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Death by AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Barry's Substack for its humour, such as a piece on confusing hotel shower controls and posts about rumours of his own death from AI-generated errors.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It's pretty random.
Most-linked posts?
- Death by AI5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-07-19
What Hacker News says?
On the topic of hotel baths & showers, Dave Barry has this hilarious piece. Innovation in hotel shower controls has lead to UI/UX getting messed up. https://davebarry.substack.com/p/hotel-showers
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on “Bring bathroom doors back to hotels”Submitted Death by AI as a story · 583 points
HN discussionIt's still an editor I can turn to in a pinch when my favorite humans aren't around. It makes better analogies sometimes. I like going back and forth with it, and if it doesn't sound like me, I rewrite it. Don't look at social media. Blogging is kinda re-surging. I just found out Dave Barry has a substack. https://davebarry.substack.com/ That made me happy :) (Side note, did he play "Squirrel with a Gun??!!!") The d…
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on “We're losing our voice to LLMs”Dave Barry also insists he is not dead. https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai It seems it's quite exhausting.
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on “Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated”A similar story from the always hilarious Dave Barry! https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai Note: Dave Barry is not dead. He is, in fact, alive.
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on “Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated”This also happened to Dave Barry recently! https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai
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on “Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated”We had a story like this almost a year ago: https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615801
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on “Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated”