Hacker News: jaronilan

Show HN: Last Year I wrote a (Sci)fictional story where the EFF was a player [pdf]

jaronilan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:13:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707309

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jaronilan in "EFF is leaving X"

jaronilan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:02:16 +0000

Everything old is new again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSOTQPUQoU

New comment by jaronilan in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

jaronilan — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:30:11 +0000

Nothing actually. Feels nice.

New comment by jaronilan in "Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?"

jaronilan — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:37:02 +0000

Now Hiring: Not You (2017): https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/now-hiring-not-...

New comment by jaronilan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

jaronilan — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:33:36 +0000

Finished 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.

Show HN: Base Rate (a short fiction story about Life Expectancy) [pdf]

jaronilan — Wed, 07 May 2025 02:15:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Base%20Rate.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43911609

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jaronilan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

jaronilan — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:53:44 +0000

Almost 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

New comment by jaronilan in "Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual"

jaronilan — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:55:13 +0000

OT: earlier this year I wrote a short fictional story about SEO….

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...

New comment by jaronilan in "From where I left"

jaronilan — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:35:47 +0000

I find, even in the short stories I write, that managing the story arc is so much harder than managing code execution…

New comment by jaronilan in "The Age of PageRank Is Over (2022)"

jaronilan — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:23:09 +0000

Always 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.

New comment by jaronilan in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

jaronilan — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:44:58 +0000

Just finished a third short story.

It is about SEO: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...

Show HN: I write short fiction stories that are (sort of) set around tech

jaronilan — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 02:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41496509

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Duplicitous (a short fiction story about SEO) [pdf]

jaronilan — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:45:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418295

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jaronilan in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

jaronilan — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:03:19 +0000

Almost 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

Tell HN: I finished the short story I started as a comment in 2018

jaronilan — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:38:55 +0000

Here it is: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Salad.pdf

And here is the comment from 2018 (on an account I lost access to): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18579131

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36870681

Points: 27

# Comments: 4

New comment by jaronilan in "Show HN: Dependency Hell (Short Story)"

jaronilan — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:43:55 +0000

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/commit/6f21536e2eae6540...

Ok. That was an easy fix.

$ git push origin main

Enter.

Show HN: Dependency Hell (Short Story)

jaronilan — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:41:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/dependency-hell.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36425038

Points: 77

# Comments: 10