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Re: Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?

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I think the market might be saturated. There are 2 cyberpunk news sites that I know of and they mostly report the same events. Sites: https://www.neondystopia.com https://n-o-d-e.net

Looks like https://n-o-d-e.net is written using org-mode. Also who is the author, i am not able to find any about link.

Re: Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?

#74
Hi, I've written for n-o-d-e.net, exolymph.news, and 2600 (all gratis, hopefully neondystopia.com soon). I'd be very interested in your site and to do some writing if you'd have me. Hit me up at Famicoman@gmail.com or @Famicoman if you'd like to chat.

Re: Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?

#75

I think the market might be saturated. There are 2 cyberpunk news sites that I know of and they mostly report the same events. Sites: https://www.neondystopia.com https://n-o-d-e.net

Looks like https://n-o-d-e.net is written using org-mode. Also who is the author, i am not able to find any about link.

His name is Chris, he's a friendly guy if you shoot him an email.

Re: Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?

#76
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I feel like lainchan.org is related, you can often find these kinds of discussions there. Site was recently reset so it looks a bit empty. The community publishes a magazine (lainzine), but I have personally not read it yet. If you want to do this kind of stuff just for fun and don't mind a smaller audience, you could look into that.

I was about to post this same thing. I would say I look at lainchan more than I look at HN. It is my favorite Chan board, if you are a fan of chans and functional programming it is definitely worth checking out. The functional programming threads have very distinct and regular communities that are really great to participate in. A lot of beginners and people with expertise intermixing.

The zine itself is ok, there is really not much editing of content, just whatever people submit for the most part gets placed into it to fill the space. The quality varies wildly from page to page, but recent issues have been getting better.

Re: Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?

#77

Only if it meets the following criteria: 1) Apolitical. No editorializing. No political opinions what so ever. Just the absolutely facts. That's it. There is enough out there already that you're way behind the curve. However, IMHO, if you produce something that is apolitical, and stays on the facts without allowing your personal political ideology to bleed through, it would be really wonderful.

> No political opinions what so ever.

What this actually means in my experience is "Don't challenge my politics". It's quite impossible to report facts while not considering the political implications. I've seen articles try to do this, and they wind up spending half their wordcount talking around some mysterious, unspeakable "thing".

Try this at home! Write a "just the facts" story about say, Facebook's mind interface and show it to someone who profoundly disagrees with you politically, and not just on the meaningless tribal hot-button issues like flag burning or something.

I'm on the Left, but I personally would rather read a good piece from National Review or Reason where they don't pussyfoot around their politics and give the facts in full context (though I find Reason unbearably smug).

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