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Supernuclear
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Supernuclear is a personal blog at supernuclear.substack.com about culture. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for writing on community, co-living and neighbourly ties, including the stoop coffee idea and a Mars College case study. One commenter calls it a long-running favourite to read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
How to live near (and with) friends.
Most-linked posts?
- Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-03-25
- Supernuclear: A guide for living with and near friends2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-28
- How (and why) to do pop-up communes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-16
- Case Study: Mars College2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-14
- How to Kill a Commune in 8 Easy Steps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-12
- The Supernuclear Directory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Happy reader for a while. For HN readers, if you want to have a setup where you live near friends and/or family, check their posts: https://supernuclear.substack.com/archive?sort=top
Comment linking /archive?sort=top
on “Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood”Submitted Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood as a story · 1652 points
HN discussionI get that this is harmless fun - and I am legitimately happy that people got out and had some fun making up flyers and hanging out with other people. When I saw all those people hanging out in the park on a glorious Spring day, I admit I felt a twinge of jealousy as I sit here alone at my desk. But I've got to say... I find it a bit distasteful how Americans increasingly seem to be more united by their dislikes tha…
Comment linking /p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simple-idea-transformed
on “Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club”Submitted The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California as a story · 156 points
HN discussionThis blog is about co-living with others. It seems a little more connected than you're looking for, but might have some insight nonetheless -- https://supernuclear.substack.com/
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on “Live near your friends”Submitted The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone as a story · 85 points
HN discussionCommunity living! I've lived in various communes for 8 years now. I don't use the term coliving space as I feel a lot of places that go under that moniker are commercially driven and not particularly community based. The houses I've lived in are very rooted in where they're based, host a lot of events, and (crucially I think) are not for profit - they're designed to sustain themselves rather than maximize $ for the…
Comment linking /p/directory-of-coliving-directories
on “Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?”Submitted The Power and Beauty of Incrementalism as a story · 81 points
HN discussionMore articles, etc: https://x.com/Mars_College https://www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-reports/stories/mars-college... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/29/mars-college... https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/case-study-mars-college https://www.soniare.net/blog/mars-college-building-the-futur... https://marscollege.substack.com/p/a-pop-up-college-in-the-d...
Comment linking /p/case-study-mars-college
on “Mars College: An Uncollege in the Desert”Submitted Why is it so hard to get families to live in community houses? as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI feel like there is a certain friction to altering behaviors on a large scale which the pandemic was obviously a significant force for. I'd be super interested to see some good roadmaps to restore the social fabric that @barry-cotter is chatting about. There was a neat blog post I read from here a while ago about this couple that began fostering community by introducing a consistent low-friction activity in their n…
Comment linking /p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simple-idea-transformed
on “If You Build It, They Will Come”Submitted Traveling Neighborhoods as a story · 14 points
HN discussionVery similar to this "stoop coffee" concept https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simpl...
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on “Overcoming the Friendship Recession”Submitted Case Study: Mars College as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning Neighborhoods into Communities as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Supernuclear Directory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How (and why) to do pop-up communes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Case Study: Merlins Place as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Kill a Commune in 8 Easy Steps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dispatches from the Commune as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supernuclear – A Guide to Coliving as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How (and why) to do pop-up communes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Neighborhood Communities (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Bauhaus, a purposefully non-ideological coliving house as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to kill a community (before it even starts) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Holding Community Space as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Kill a Commune in 8 Easy Steps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abundance of the Commons as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Case Study: Agape as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Case Study: Life at Selgars as a story · 1 points
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