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Kate Wagner
Personal blog · late-review.comculturewriting
Kate Wagner writes the late review, a personal blog at late-review.com about culture and writing. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Obligatory one month without social media on my phone Substack essay”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kate Wagner's architecture criticism, such as her review of the film Megalopolis, which discusses films like Rand's and Coppola's clinging to the image of the sole male architect.
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.
reviews by kate wagner of buildings, books, cultural artifacts, and other such things that have already existed for awhile.
Most-linked posts?
- Obligatory one month without social media on my phone Substack essay2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-18
- AI and Internet Hygiene2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-18
What Hacker News says?
It seems like this review can find little to praise beyond the abstract idea of a benevolent visionary who struggles against a world full of philistines. I thought Kate Wagner's review was a lot more insightful: > Even though architecture, being drafted and built by many human hands, has never been a solitary art, writers and filmmakers like Rand and Coppola cling to the image of the sole male architect for a reason…
Comment linking /p/megaflopolis
on “In Praise of 'Megalopolis'”Submitted What the f*** are we doing anymore as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are going to have to re-learn how to use the computer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI and Internet Hygiene as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obligatory one month without social media on my phone Substack essay as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The eternal present or: we need to destroy phone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obligatory one month without social media on my phone Substack essay as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obligatory one month without social media on my phone Substack essay as a story · 1 points
HN discussion