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Metaphor Hacker
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Metaphor Hacker is a personal blog at metaphorhacker.net about writing and philosophy. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Metaphor Hacker for its writing-style and sentence-craft essays, such as an earlier piece on how cohesion and coherence make well-formed sentences. This thread discusses its advice on writing style.
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.
Hacking Metaphors, Frames and Other Ideas
What Hacker News says?
I find it hard to reconcile what the author says in this article and what they say in an earlier article entitled "How to actually write a sentence", which is an explanation of how cohesion and coherence contribute to well-formed sentences, a topic Pinker spends a couple of chapters on in Sense of Style. https://metaphorhacker.net/2020/02/how-to-actually-write-a-s...
Comment linking /2020/02/how-to-actually-write-a-sentence-the-building-blocks-of-written-language/
on “The Problem with Writing-Style Advice”Submitted The Problem with Writing-Style Advice as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted History as Weather as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cats and Butterflies: Two misunderstood analogies (2018) as a story · 9 points
HN discussion