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Sonya Mann
Personal blog · sonyasupposedly.com · on HN as exolymphwritingculture
Sonya Mann writes Sonya Supposedly, a personal blog at sonyasupposedly.com about writing and culture. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “Multiplayer Psychosis (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked only in a thread listing famous HN users' sites with RSS feeds, where the commenter lists its feed. No comment says what the posts cover or judges the writing.
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.
The website + newsletter of Sonya Mann.
Most-linked posts?
- Multiplayer Psychosis (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-30
- Tough Crowds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-06
What Hacker News says?
Not a good person, IMO: https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/vcbrags/
Comment linking /vcbrags/
on “PG and Jessica”Submitted Brutality of Life Reading List as a story · 93 points
HN discussionRSS feeds for 5 out of the Top Hits list https://breckyunits.com/feed.xml https://www.gwern.net/feed.rss https://www.righto.com/rss.xml https://blog.jgc.org/rss.xml https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/rss/
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on “Famous HNers and their sites”Submitted Thriverism as a story · 21 points
HN discussion> I think it’s simply because it has been a while since disease and pestilence was a worry for the average Western country so the average citizen (and therefore the leaders) are complacent in a sort of “It can’t happen here” way. There have been outbreaks such as the AIDS epidemic or swine flu but nothing as impactful, infectious, and at the scale of COVID. I agree that this is the main factor. Consequently I propos…
Comment linking /civilizational-immune-systems/
on “India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates”Submitted Multiplayer Psychosis (2020) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionwell since you asked, here's a reading list :) https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/internet-community-dynamics/ (just scroll past the pitch for the links)
Comment linking /internet-community-dynamics/
on “Ask HN: What skills have given you a 10x return?”Submitted Completing a Creative Project as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMy answer to this dilemma is Thriverism: https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/thriverism/ Accompanying HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330086
Comment linking /thriverism/
on “Competition and Quarter-Life Crises”Submitted Completing a Creative Project as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBite the bullet and jump. I wrote a long blog post about this called "Impossibility Space," if anyone is interested: https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/impossibility-space/ > There are social consequences to iconoclasm, regardless of whether challenging a given sanctified consensus turns out to be "correct" or "on the right side of history" in retrospect. You must be brave enough, foolhardy and cocky enough, to attempt…
Comment linking /impossibility-space/
on “Ask HN: How do you deal with life altering decisions?”Submitted Do the obvious next thing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionClickable version: https://forms.gle/yE72gEeRhanTAyoR8 Oh, and in case you're like "who the hell is this and why should I trust her with my email?" this is me: 1) https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/ 2) https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly
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on “Invite HN: Show and Tell”Submitted Multiplayer Psychosis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultra Simple To-Do List Template as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is God? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted VCBrags, Viciousness, and Pasquale D'Silva as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entropicana as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rearview Mirror as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entropy Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not *purely* navel-gazing but that's def the correct classification as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The People of the Past as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spelling [on magic] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stakes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bewitched as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Civilizational Immune Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Respiteful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elm and Keep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All you can do is as much as you can as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Which We Must Agree to Disagree as a story · 2 points
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