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Jill Walker Rettberg
Personal blog · jilltxt.netaiculturewriting
Jill Walker Rettberg's personal blog at jilltxt.net covers ai, culture and writing. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on the Amazon Kindle launch. The one comment here discusses e-book file formats and markup on battery-powered readers, so the linked posts seem to cover e-book technology. The comment does not assess the writing.
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.
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
What Hacker News says?
It's a tough problem to solve and the computation of it all is sufficiently expensive that doing it on a battery-powered device is a significant drain. A further difficulty is the file formats being used --- ages ago, I tried to argue for an ebook format which specifically noted markup and content as being decorative or semantic and looking over the specification I don't see that that was ever really worked up. That…
Comment linking /bembos-zoo/
on “Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more”Submitted Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misaligned citations and LLM-generated scientific fraud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing as a story · 2 points
HN discussion