JAjaronilan·Oct 11, 2026Submission
Show HN: I wrote Dependency Hell 5 years ago. Today I updated it for AI Era [pdf]
3 points · Open discussionjaronilan
stories
OPEN SOURCE2023–2026
jaronilan / stories
stories
Short stories that take too long to write.
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18Mentions
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15GitHub stars
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
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18 sourcesI wrote a short story about life expectancy last year.
https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Base%20Rate.p...
Inspired by some random HN comment.
In Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then everI try to submit short (tech related) stories (https://github.com/jaronilan/stories) and never get any traction. (Might be time to write one about a vibe coder... ;))
In Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patternsShow HN: Last Year I wrote a (Sci)fictional story where the EFF was a player [pdf]
2 points · Open discussionFinished my 4th short story. This one is about Life Expectancy. I wrote it after reading something on HN.
https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Base%20Rate.p...
Will now move at the usual snail pace to write the next one.
In Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)Show HN: Base Rate (a short fiction story about Life Expectancy) [pdf]
3 points · Open discussionAlmost finished a short story I started writing when I read something on HN. It is about life expectancy.
Edit: Three from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
In Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)OT: earlier this year I wrote a short fictional story about SEO….
https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...
In Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usualAlways found the concept of PR intriguing and the original paper to be “foundational”.
I wrote an alternate reality fiction short story about PR and SEO. It is here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...
Not the most “popular topic”, but thought people around HN might find it interesting.
In The Age of PageRank Is Over (2022)Just finished a third short story.
It is about SEO: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...
In Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?Show HN: I write short fiction stories that are (sort of) set around tech
3 points · Open discussionShow HN: Duplicitous (a short fiction story about SEO) [pdf]
1 points · Open discussionAlmost finished a short story I started writing about a year ago. It is about SEO.
Edit: Two from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
In Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?Links:
https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Salad.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18579131
In Tell HN: I finished the short story I started as a comment in 2018Showing the 15 most recent of 18 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.