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John Warner writes The Biblioracle Recommends, a personal blog at biblioracle.substack.com about writing and culture. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link John Warner's Substack for its taxonomy of public writers and its explanation of engagement and attention. One commenter points to a separate post that explains the underlying concept.

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.

Weekly essays on reading the world and reading in the world, plus personalized book recommendations based on the last five books you've read.

Most-linked posts?

  1. ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. They explain the concept in a separate post[1] (which is also linked in the original article). [1] https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/engagement-attention-shin...

    Comment linking /p/engagement-attention-shining-a-light

    on “A Taxonomy of Public Writers”
  2. Submitted ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Building a Creative Practice as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A Taxonomy of Public Writers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Which Writers Will We Remember? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How Do You Know If a Book Is True? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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