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James Yu
Personal blog · jamesyu.org · on HN as jamesjyustartupsprogramming
James Yu's personal blog at jamesyu.org covers startups and programming. Since 2008, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Things are a little crazy rn: AI generated meeting conflicts”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers linked a hyperliterature piece on jamesyu.org whose text shifts colour and moves. One commenter found the colour shifting distracting while trying to read it.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Things are a little crazy rn: AI generated meeting conflicts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-19
- My Journey from Frame Maker to Painter2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-07-08
- Award-winning AI literature2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-06
- Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-20
- Hot Spot: Interactive fiction that emulates synesthesia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-20
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a bit about my journey from tech to fiction that may be helpful perspective: https://www.jamesyu.org/blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-...
Comment linking /blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-painter/
on “Consume less, create more”Submitted Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats as a story · 161 points
HN discussionThanks! Here are some of my fav reads: https://www.jamesyu.org/reading/
Comment linking /reading/
on “Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats”Submitted Hyperliterature as a story · 160 points
HN discussionThis is very cool but I found the color shifting highly disruptive to actually soaking in the text... https://www.jamesyu.org/hot-spot/ And then the text moves. Nope.
Comment linking /hot-spot/
on “Hyperliterature”Submitted Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails Part 2 as a story · 93 points
HN discussionFounder of Sudowrite [1] here. > I think the next step (say, being able to produce short stories with actual literary value) will be substantially more difficult, mostly because it's substantially more difficult for human writers too. Totally agreed. Both my co-founder and I are professionally published short story authors, and we would be the first to say that using something like Sudowrite is no guarantee you will…
Comment linking /singular/
on “The computers are getting better at writing”Submitted Gmailr: An Unofficial Javascript API for Gmail as a story · 90 points
HN discussionTry a sport! I too hate treadmills and lifting weights -- it's just dreadfully boring. However, if you pick up a sport, you can hone your coordination skills and progress to become a better player. I find that it's much more motivating when you're competing with people. And, I feel much better knowing that I am acquiring a useful skill that can be measured against in competition. Personally, I play competitive table…
Comment linking /2009/01/11/why-table-tennis-is-a-great-hacker-sport/
on “Exercise More to Hack Better”Submitted Show HN: I converted my Backbone/Rails app Cloudedit to Parse in 5 minutes as a story · 82 points
HN discussionRole Playing Gateway [1] may be the closest thing you'll find online. It has shared universes and players creating their own characters and writing short stories about their journeys and taking actions. It’s not quite an MMO since it’s not real-time and much of the interactions aren’t mediated by programs enforcing rules. This and the OP's example might actually be closer to a form of literature, but one that is sem…
Comment linking /hyperliterature/
on “Japanese Play-by-Postcard RPGs: Net Games (2017)”Submitted On Being an Early Startup Employee, and a Farewell as a story · 69 points
HN discussionThere's also an aesthetic homogeneity to the big social media sites that strikes me as bleak and depressing compared to the amateurish, handmade web pages of my childhood. Different pages on the same website — even different entries in the same journal — might look wildly different I touched on this in a recent post here: https://www.jamesyu.org/blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-... I empathize with the author on…
Comment linking /blog/my-journey-from-frame-maker-to-painter/
on “The Mutable Web”Submitted Award-winning AI literature as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I Learned Building a Company in 2011 as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudEdit: A Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hone the Core of Your Product as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Table Tennis is a Great Hacker Sport as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups should think big and start small as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted How My Gap Logo App Became Viral as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zodiac Hacking: An Accidental SEO Experiment as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do everything. Then hire. as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hot Spot: Interactive fiction that emulates synesthesia as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance of Startup Momentum as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things are a little crazy rn: AI generated meeting conflicts as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Centaur Bard: Art Collaboration Between GPT-3 and Artist as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thanks Amazon for Thinking That I'm a Hacker When Your Service is Down as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Journey from Frame Maker to Painter as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Journey from Frame Maker to Painter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Danger in Reading Finished Works as a story · 3 points
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