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Nicholas Carr

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Nicholas Carr writes New Cartographies, a personal blog at newcartographies.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2024, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Toward a Phenomenology of the Phone”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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34mentions?
17HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 18 in 2025

We have entered strange new territories. We need new cartographies.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Toward a Phenomenology of the Phone
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-01
  2. Dead Labor, Dead Speech – What happens when culture becomes an industry's raw...
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
  3. The Arc of Innovation Bends Toward Decadence
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-16
  4. The Myth of Automated Learning: AI's real threat to education
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-27
  5. Strong Men And Strong Machines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-10
  6. 'Epistemological Slop: Lies, Damned Lies, and Google'
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted The Arc of Innovation Bends Toward Decadence as a story · 11 points

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  2. Submitted Dead Labor, Dead Speech – What happens when culture becomes an industry's raw... as a story · 9 points

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  3. Submitted 'Epistemological Slop: Lies, Damned Lies, and Google' as a story · 5 points

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  4. Submitted What Hath Tim Berners-Lee Wrought? as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted All the Little Data as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted The Myth of Automated Learning: AI's real threat to education as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted Epistemological Slop as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Diplomacy by WhatsApp as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted AI vs. AI as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted The Myth of Automated Learning as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Truth Doesn't Scale as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Dead, Loud and Snotty: AI and the Coming of Slop Culture as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted The Arc of Innovation Bends Toward Decadence as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Is AI the Paperclip? as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Against Compression as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted In the Kingdom of the Bored, the One-Armed Bandit Is King as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Toward a Phenomenology of the Phone as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Dead Labor, Dead Speech as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Dead Labor, Dead Speech as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted The Scrolly Chair as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted The Myth of the Informed Citizen as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted From Homo Faber to Homo Fictor as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted The "User-Generated Content" Ruse as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted The Erasive Age: Generation as Destruction as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Strong Men And Strong Machines as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted The Original Chatbot as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Friendship in the Age of Digital Simulation as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Strong Men and Strong Machines as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted AI and the Missing Mother as a story · 1 points

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