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openthefuture.com is a personal blog at openthefuture.com about science and culture. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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31mentions?
7HN people?
2009–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link openthefuture.com's archived 2004 page on Neal Stephenson, whom one commenter places among the '80s cyberpunk writers. The comment names him and links the piece without judging it.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Apocryphon · 2022-07-06
    Can't forget Stephenson, he's the third head of the '80s cyberpunk triad. http://www.openthefuture.com/wcarchive/2004/10/stephenson_an...

    Comment linking /wcarchive/2004/10/stephenson_and_gibson_and_ster.html

    on “A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity”
  2. ph0rque · 2012-05-01

    Submitted The Pink Collar Future as a story · 38 points

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  3. ph0rque · 2012-11-15

    Submitted #War as a story · 5 points

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  4. ph0rque · 2012-05-17

    Submitted Nine Meditations on Complexity as a story · 5 points

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  5. vollmond · 2009-07-16

    Submitted Human Interfaces as a story · 4 points

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  6. platz · 2013-05-23

    Submitted Unwittingly Participating in the Panopticon as a story · 3 points

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  7. ph0rque · 2014-05-13

    Submitted Magna Cortica as a story · 2 points

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  8. ph0rque · 2013-10-29

    Submitted Secession in the Valley, and the End of Politics as a story · 2 points

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  9. ph0rque · 2013-08-20

    Submitted Ambiveillance as a story · 2 points

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  10. ph0rque · 2013-05-03

    Submitted The Fuzzy Now as a story · 2 points

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  11. platz · 2012-09-07

    Submitted The Griefer Future as a story · 2 points

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  12. queensnake · 2009-05-29

    Submitted The Transparency Dilemma as a story · 2 points

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  13. ph0rque · 2015-07-29

    Submitted High-Frequency Combat as a story · 1 points

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  14. ph0rque · 2015-03-13

    Submitted Usefully Wrong as a story · 1 points

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  15. ph0rque · 2014-08-26

    Submitted Talking About Extinction in Front of Dinosaurs as a story · 1 points

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  16. ph0rque · 2014-03-21

    Submitted Mirror, Mirror – Science Fiction and Futurism as a story · 1 points

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  17. ph0rque · 2014-03-21

    Submitted Watching the World through a Broken Lens as a story · 1 points

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  18. ph0rque · 2014-02-28

    Submitted Offshore Wind Turbines Can Tame Hurricanes. Yay, Right? Maybe. as a story · 1 points

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  19. ph0rque · 2014-02-05

    Submitted 500 Words on Cryptocurrencies as a story · 1 points

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  20. ph0rque · 2013-05-21

    Submitted Imagination Experiment: Visualizing Transformative Tech as a story · 1 points

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  21. ph0rque · 2013-05-15

    Submitted Push-Button Gunsmithing and the Long Arm of the Law as a story · 1 points

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  22. ph0rque · 2013-05-15

    Submitted Getting It (Almost) Right as a story · 1 points

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  23. ph0rque · 2012-12-13

    Submitted Artifice and Consent in the Age of Robotics as a story · 1 points

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  24. ph0rque · 2012-09-24

    Submitted Melancholia, the Game as a story · 1 points

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  25. ph0rque · 2012-09-05

    Submitted Future is Now, Part 58 as a story · 1 points

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  26. ph0rque · 2012-08-29

    Submitted Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots as a story · 1 points

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  27. ph0rque · 2012-08-23

    Submitted Crush All Hu-mans(aka, the Robot Economy) as a story · 1 points

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  28. ph0rque · 2012-06-06

    Submitted Open the Future: Becoming as a story · 1 points

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  29. JCThoughtscream · 2010-03-09

    Submitted Jamais Cascio: Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point as a story · 1 points

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  30. LogicHoleFlaw · 2009-02-27

    Submitted Open the Future: John Henry was an Audiobook-Readin' Man as a story · 1 points

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