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Max Barry
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Max Barry's personal blog at maxbarry.com covers writing and culture. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Max Barry's blog for his novels, such as Machine Man, and his news posts, which are often cited on topics like vigilantism, online games and fiction marketing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Max Barry, author of Lexicon, Jennifer Government, Providence, Syrup, Machine Man, and Company
What Hacker News says?
Max Barry actually just wrote a blog post about that: https://maxbarry.com/2021/05/26/news.html
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on “Citizen’s dangerous effort to cash in on vigilantism”Submitted My Stupid (Publishing) Industry as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThere was a pretty great book by Max Barry (Jennifer Government, Syrup, Company) called Machine Man[1] that was about this; the main character was an engineer who lost his leg, and decided to build a better one. The whole thing is worth reading for the first chapter alone. [1] http://maxbarry.com/machineman/
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on “First Bionic Leg to Harness Nerves Allows Mind Control Movement”Submitted Dear Pirates: This is How to Help as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReminds me of this awesomely written story: http://maxbarry.com/2009/04/09/news.html
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on “Scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had.”Submitted How to Promote a Book During a Global Pandemic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionExplanation: https://maxbarry.com/2020/03/29/news.html "If you can, offer something of interest to a wider circle. Like, if you can drop everything and work 16-hour days for two weeks to build an online game based on your novel, then your followers might enjoy that and pass it along to others. The game, that is."
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on “An online game based on the novel 'Providence'”Submitted My Stupid Industry (Author writing about the Amazon eBook pricing wars) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NationStates Turns Twenty (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Copyright is Doomed (2002) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Max Barry: I Think I Should Be Braver as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y i no post as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Hate Windows (this time) as a story · 1 points
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