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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois writes Hopeful Monsters, a personal blog at etiennefd.substack.com about culture, science and writing. Since 2021, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for posts on the difference between science and the humanities or social sciences, and for playful pieces on tech culture, such as tech jobs described as Mesoamerican wizard cabals.
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.
Culture, technology, and other macromutations.
Most-linked posts?
- Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-11
- The Difference Between Science and the Humanities Is Reading the Classics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
What Hacker News says?
https://www.thoughtco.com/is-anthropology-a-science-3971060 https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/sociology-is-so... . http://cognitionandculture.net/blogs/benson-salers-blog/anth... https://etiennefd.substack.com/p/the-difference-between-scie... I define science as anything that is scientifically rigorous. That does not include humanities or social sciences, arts, philosophy, history etc. Social science is n…
Comment linking /p/the-difference-between-science-and
on “Civic honesty around the globe”Submitted Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards as a story · 368 points
HN discussionI've only got a second, but feel the need to highlight the Technical Interview series[1] and the many fan-works that pay homage to it. I enjoyed the anthropomorphising of a Package Manager Murder Mystery[2], and the creative writing of Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards[3]. 1: https://aphyr.com/tags/interviews 2: https://artemis.sh/2022/04/11/package-manager-murder-mystery... 3. https://eti…
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on “Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Surrounding Programming”Submitted There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding) as a story · 97 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remaining Ambitious as a story · 84 points
HN discussion- nz · 2022-10-27
Submitted Reinvent the Wheel as a story · 70 points
HN discussion Submitted The Three Types of Happiness as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mythical Wealth-Creation Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Watchmaker Analogy Argues, at Most, for Polytheism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 29th, and Other Calendar Quirks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Rarely Lose Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paint with the Colors That Don't Exist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Proper Use of the Moon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reality Will Become a Status Symbol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Children of the Geissler Tube as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The industrial quasi-revolution of Song dynasty China as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toronto as Utopia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Industrial Revolution That Almost Was (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Difference Between Science and the Humanities Is Reading the Classics as a story · 1 points
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