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Tracy Durnell
Personal blog · tracydurnell.comwritingculture
Tracy Durnell's personal blog at tracydurnell.com covers writing and culture. Since 2023, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Social aesthetics destroyed privacy and polarized us”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on reading habits, such as the hundred page idea and not finishing books, and for a post explaining why the author pulled the site from Google over AI training.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Social aesthetics destroyed privacy and polarized us2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-23
What Hacker News says?
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Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”Submitted In praise of the hundred page idea as a story · 165 points
HN discussionJust noting that this narrative in the post is contrary to the author's own guidelines - where they go into not finishing books (called "DNF"s lol) https://tracydurnell.com/2023/08/19/my-reading-philosophy-an...
Comment linking /2023/08/19/my-reading-philosophy-and-17-reading-guidelines/
on “In praise of the hundred page idea”Submitted Two and a half years without a gallbladder as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThey literally outline their reasoning in a link[0]. There’s a significant gap between offering information for someone to read for free (where I can see the author and choose to respect their terms, if they have any), and a huge tech company aggregating that data where it is assimilated into a model and used in a product they will profit from[1]. They are exploiting gray area regarding digital rights, copyright, et…
Comment linking /2023/07/07/the-next-big-theft/
on “Pulling my site from Google over AI training”Submitted Four Years Ago Today as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social aesthetics destroyed privacy and polarized us as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aesthetic Fascism as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI has poisoned its own well as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Formatting as Courtesy to the Reader as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How aesthetics destroyed privacy and polarized us as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pulling my site from Google over AI training as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dream of AI is the dream of free labor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Community Out of Strangers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI or Not? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mental Defrag as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using personal weeknotes as a tool for attention as a story · 1 points
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