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Neal Stephenson
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Neal Stephenson's personal blog at nealstephenson.com covers writing, culture and philosophy. Since 2008, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (2015)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
The personal website of author Neal Stephenson, unless it's been hacked.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (2015)7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-05-25
- First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-04-13
- Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (1998)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-26
- /fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-03
- /magic-leap.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-20
- Notes on 416 days of Threadmill Desk usage3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-03-10
- /termination-shock.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-19
- /photos.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-26
- Neal Stephenson – Anathema Acknowledgments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-14
- /anathem.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Didn't know. But you're right ! cf https://www.nealstephenson.com/magic-leap.html
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on “Magic Leap One”Submitted Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015) as a story · 379 points
HN discussionOn barely related note, I immediately thought about Three Moons Over Milford, in which the moon breaks into three chunks and rains meteorites down on the surface. As it turns out the tile comes from Seveneves, which has a similar concept. The TV show focuses on the life of the townspeople, while Seveneves focuses on the science and drama of the exploded moon. Stephenson started working on his book in 2004, completin…
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on ““The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason””Submitted First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves as a story · 122 points
HN discussionThe title of this post, "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason", is the very first sentence in the book [0]. It's not a spoiler for any meaningful definition of the word, the word spoiler should be reserved for things that spoil the enjoyment of a work, like a surprise ending. [0] http://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-exce...
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on ““The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason””Submitted Notes on 416 Days of Treadmill Desk Usage as a story · 122 points
HN discussionThis book has my second favorite opening line in a sci-fi book (right behind Neuromancer). You can read the first few pages for free on Neal's website! https://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-exc...
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on “A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse”Submitted Neal Stephenson – Announcing Polostan as a story · 67 points
HN discussionIs it an example of an overtone music? http://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem/music.htm
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on “The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers”Submitted Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (2015) as a story · 60 points
HN discussionhttps://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html
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on “To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook”Submitted Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock as a story · 56 points
HN discussionFor anyone else not up to date, Neal Stephenson's latest novel is Fall; or, Dodge in Hell : https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html
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on “DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videos”Submitted Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (1998) as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI do this too. I basically am a non-functioning writer unless I am on a computer. I guess I'm lucky I was born when I was. Side note. Neal Stephenson wrote the Baroque Cycle out long hand. This post ( http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/01/the-entire-terr.html ) was from last month ago but I also remember 3 other pictures from several years ago. http://www.nealstephenson.com/photos.htm I was completely dumbfounded w…
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on “The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad”Submitted Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionNeal Stephenson is involved in Magic Leap as Chief Futurist: https://www.nealstephenson.com/magic-leap.html
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on “Magic Leap One Teardown”Submitted New Neal Stephenson Book Out - Anathem as a story · 19 points
HN discussionNeal Stephenson has been involved with Long Now and the 10,000 year clock since 1999 and that involvement led to Anathem: https://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem.html
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on “The Notre Dame fire and the future of history”Submitted Notes on 416 days of Threadmill Desk usage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAssuming https://nealstephenson.com/social-media.html is real, he has social media accounts (linked from that page). That domain has been registered since 2000, it's probably real. It links to a google plus account, it's probably not updated promptly.
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on “Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson”Submitted Neal Stephenson – Anathema Acknowledgments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPage is up on his website, but no content there: https://www.nealstephenson.com/magic-leap.html
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on “Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B”Submitted Why I Am a Bad Correspondent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is ample evidence and testimony to support this, and it applies to far more than just programming. This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer (comic) https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt... And it's gone https://jaxenter.com/aaaand-gone-true-cost-interruptions-128... (Includes reference to meetings: "If you think an unplanned interruption is bad, how about a planned one? If you kn…
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on “How to explain to a layperson why a developer should not be interrupted? (2011)”Submitted Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (Neal Stephenson) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUPDATE1: Don has an email address: taocp (at) cs.stanford.edu UPDATE2: How the World’s Most Famous Computer Scientist Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2008/07/17/bonus-post-how-th... I find past discussion of this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461077 Neal Stephenson vs Email or Why I Am a Sociomediapath? https://www.nealstephenson.com/social-media.html https:…
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on “Knuth versus Email (1999)”Submitted Why I Am a Bad Correspondent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionrelatedly: https://www.nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-bad-correspondent.... That is not such a terrible outcome, but neither is it an especially good outcome. The quality of my e-mails and public speaking is, in my view, nowhere near that of my novels. So for me it comes down to the following choice: I can distribute material of bad-to-mediocre quality to a small number of people, or I can distribute material of high…
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on “Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife”Submitted Why I Am a Bad Correspondent as a story · 1 points
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