Why “Writing” is being discussed
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> Back of the fag pack, napkins, and envelopes at least kind of make sense. Who was ever writing on the back of cigarette packs?
by preommr · Oct 16, 2026
I'm not convinced this is any sort of team to be learning anything from. These are the people who regularly ship changes that affect people's workflows directly without notice,…
by IceDane · Oct 16, 2026
Yet another case, when a company steals someone's IP (1), then that person/org has to complain which spending their valuable time for that, then they are getting blamed by…
by Yizahi · Oct 16, 2026
The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial). Yes, you can just put down a CPU core, but that's…
by exmadscientist · Oct 16, 2026
Yes their actual business is in trouble. Why exactly do you think he keeps repositioning them as a robotics oh wait no I mean an AI company? Why is he clearly positioning Tesla…
by estearum · Oct 16, 2026
They will just fob you off with some bullshit response or just repeat the party line and tell you that you are wrong. They will do whatever they want anyway, whatever I write to…
by IslandRebel · Oct 16, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "writing" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "writing" over time.
Writing is the act of creating a persistent, usually visual representation of language on a surface. As a structured system of communication, writing is also known as written language. Historically, written languages have emerged as a way to record corresponding spoken languages. A particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which they encode a particular spoken language, is known as a writing system. In some rare cases, writing may be tactile rather than visual. Read more on Wikipedia