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Infovore
Personal blog · infovore.org/archivesgamesculture
Infovore is a personal blog at infovore.org about games and culture. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts on a Tower Bridge Twitter bot and its follow-up, on journalists learning to think like programmers, and on cyberpunk fiction's technology and capitalism satire, such as Ubik's door handle.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Well, it looks like he did get a notice. New blog post: http://infovore.org/archives/2011/06/12/towerbridge-a-bit-mo...
Comment linking /archives/2011/06/12/towerbridge-a-bit-more-clarity
on “Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing”Submitted Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing as a story · 235 points
HN discussionThe followup http://infovore.org/archives/2011/06/12/towerbridge-a-bit-mo...
Comment linking /archives/2011/06/12/towerbridge-a-bit-more-clarity/
on “Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing”Submitted Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape as a story · 104 points
HN discussionHow interesting, I was just reading some articles [1] [2] about learning to think like a programmer and program. Both mention how beneficial it is for journalists to code and think like a coder. While they mainly talk about saving time with repetitive tasks or compiling/understanding complex data, I suppose now its good for job security too ... [1] http://infovore.org/archives/2009/01/22/learning-to-think-li... [2]…
Comment linking /archives/2009/01/22/learning-to-think-like-a-programmer/
on “AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team”Submitted A Year of Links as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCyberpunk stories often illustrate technology and capitalism taken to absurd extremes. A good example of this is the coin-operated door handle from Ubik. [1] https://infovore.org/archives/2015/02/17/joe-chips-problem-w...
Comment linking /archives/2015/02/17/joe-chips-problem-was-never-his-door
on “A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere”Submitted If Gamers Ran The World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Games Can Learn from Social Software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Thing That Gets You to the Thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infinifriends as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology As A Material as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Mean When I Talk About Games Literacy as a story · 1 points
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