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Petafloptimism
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Petafloptimism is a personal blog at petafloptimism.com about culture and design. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Bourne Infrastructure and the Non-Space of Bond Films”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link Petafloptimism for Matt Jones's post comparing Jason Bourne and James Bond as action heroes. One commenter calls the post fun to re-encounter and the comparison very appropriate.
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.
A matter of matter battles
Most-linked posts?
- The Bourne Infrastructure and the Non-Space of Bond Films2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-20
What Hacker News says?
Nice to see the Matt Jones post on Jason Bourne vs James Bond linked here. Very appropriate, on Bond as a well equipped foreigner wandering through fancy action sequences & villains lairs, while Bourne is equipped with a sharp recall of the local train timetables & ability to steal cars and parkour his way through complex urbam settings. That article got submitted too, and was fun to re-encounter! After living in my…
Comment linking /2008/12/12/the-bourne-infrastructure/
on “Nakatomi Space”Submitted The Bourne Infrastructure and the Non-Space of Bond Films as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Right to Longevity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gas Town and Bullet Hell as a story · 1 points
HN discussion