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InvisibleUp
Personal blog · invisibleup.com · on HN as InvisibleUpcultureweb
InvisibleUp is a personal blog at invisibleup.com about culture and web. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Why I Procrastinate (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link it for its articles on ADHD, which commenters found accurate descriptions of their own experience, and for pieces on classic Macintosh emulation and computing history such as Windows 95 and Optane.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I Procrastinate (2019)4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
- The Abysmal State of Macintosh Emulation (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29
- The Perils of File Typing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-06
- FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-18
What Hacker News says?
Procrastination is a tricky beast. I'm not going to discount advice like this, because it is helpful. But it is only one piece of the puzzle. There's a stark difference between "I don't quite feel like starting this yet, so I'll put it off for a little bit" and "I absolutely want nothing more than to start this but I can't force myself to", between laziness and a genuine inability to begin. Not to give medical advic…
Comment linking /articles/27/
on “Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it”Submitted Why I Procrastinate (2019) as a story · 425 points
HN discussionThat sounds exactly like what the ADHD community calls a "hyperfixation". If you do want to look down the ADHD path more, here's some articles and such that might be helpful. Obviously, see a therapist about all of this and get diagnosed too if this all seriously resonates with you. - "Why I Procrastinate" - https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/ (disclaimer: i wrote this one) - "ADHD: A Lifelong Struggle" - https://g…
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on “Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?”Submitted FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly as a story · 276 points
HN discussionI think a large part of this (in the USA, anyways) is due to how modern cities are structured. It used to be, 100 or 200 years ago, that your workplace, your home, and your usual hang-out place were all within reasonable walking distance of each other. It wasn't a huge deal to go out and meet new people, as you'd naturally bump into them every day. Nowadays we have a large portion of people in bedroom communities, i…
Comment linking /articles/31/
on “Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?”Submitted Web3 Is Not Decentralization as a story · 201 points
HN discussionI've never been diagnosed, but around two weeks ago some random soul on Reddit spotted some symptoms that might be signs of ADHD, or at least things that ADHD meds could help. I was provided this article: https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/ It is such an accurate description of something I've been struggling with my whole life without ever knowing it. I'm now waiting the weeks and weeks it takes to get a doctor's a…
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on “My ADHD founder toolbox”Submitted Frontpage: The Good, Bad and Ugly as a story · 157 points
HN discussionNeocities[1] and tilde servers like tilde.town[2] is a pretty large hub of old-internet sites. It's a free Geocities-like host that's home to a lot of neat, creative sites. You can also get a VPS for about $5/mo and have your own self-hosted server with whatever servers and web apps you want, like an RSS reader, an IRC client, FTP/Gopher server, etc. (Shameless self plug: this is what I do with my own personal site,…
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on “I Miss the Old Internet”Submitted The Perils of File Typing as a story · 60 points
HN discussionFor some context about why a portable, user-friendly, hardware-level emulator for classic Mac systems is such a big deal, see this blog post from 2020: https://invisibleup.com/articles/30/ For game consoles, we've had emulators like Nestopia and bsnes and Dolphin and Duckstation for years. For PCs, virtualisation systems like VMWare and VirtualBox have covered most people's needs, and recently there's been high-fide…
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on “Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator”Submitted Why I Procrastinate (2019) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionHi, author here. You might enjoy this other article I wrote on this subject: http://invisibleup.com/articles/31/ It discusses how most people's preferred social spaces recently have moved online into centralized silos, and the effects that has.
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on “FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”Submitted All Our Selves in One Basket – on centralization of social spaces as a story · 24 points
HN discussionhttps://invisibleup.com/articles/34/ > What Windows 95 wanted to do was to create a document-centric workflow where the application was out of the user's way and it only provided the means to let the user manipulate files. > It needed to somehow take this file-centric workflow and bolt it onto application-centric DOS.
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on “The end of Optane is bad news”Submitted The Abysmal State of Macintosh Emulation (2020) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMine's at https://invisibleup.com Personal websites are neato. I can draw myself as a cute ghost girl and put whatever I want on my site in whatever structure I want (although it's mostly just articles/blog posts/technical documentation and occasionally art) and nobody can stop me . Also shoutouts to https://neocities.org for being an excellent repository of personal websites, and the various sites under https://til…
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted All Our Selves in One Basket – on centralization of social spaces as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI primarily covered that topic in a previous article of mine: https://invisibleup.com/articles/31/
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on “Frontpage: The Good, Bad and Ugly”Submitted Microsoft FrontPage: the good, the bad, the ugly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI don't know how not a single comment here has mentioned ADHD, but it's possible your kid could be suffering from some form of executive dysfunction that could be linked to ADHD. Internet gaming (and the internet in general) intentionally exploits these types of vulnerabilities, which makes it even worse. Here are some resources on ADHD: https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/ https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html https…
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on “Ask HN: 19yr old child suffering from internet gaming disorder? Any suggestions?”Submitted How to Deal with Horrible Smartphone Ergonomics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI brought up here on HN in a similar ADHD thread just a couple of months ago that I was going through an investigation with my therapist for ADHD. Yesterday we finalised it and I got the diagnosis, I have ADHD. When reading through resources like this: https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/ I could relate to an extreme extent to a lot written there. Both in the blog post as in some of the further resources linked in t…
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on “Tell HN: If you have trouble focusing on projects/meetings, see a psychatrist”Submitted The Abysmal State of Macintosh Emulation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUnfortunately this kind of projects are sort of held back from the lack of decent emulators for the classic environment - Credits where it's due to Basilisk/Sheepshaver/Minivmac and their authors, but their age and limitations nowadays are showing[1]. Wish I had the skills to write anything equivalent to Dosbox for the 68K Macintosh scene, let alone something anywhere close to PcEm. [1] https://invisibleup.com/artic…
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on “Miniature Macintosh with Raspberry Pi”Submitted FrontPage – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> That's what yours is. No, it's not just what mine is. It agrees with the clinical definition of ADHD, with the experiences of all who I have spoken to about it, with multiple[0] articles[1] describing[2] the disorder[3], and so on. Your time defiance is a symptom of a deeper problem. While I can't guarantee it's the exact same problem that I have, your disorder is certainly not just "time defiance", and if it trul…
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on “A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time”Submitted Cocona World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Abysmal State of Macintosh Emulation as a story · 1 points
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