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You're not seriously suggesting that anyone reading that wouldn't know within a couple of sentences that it's not fiction? Or are you worried that people might

You're not seriously suggesting that anyone reading that wouldn't know within a couple of sentences that it's not fiction? Or are you worried that people might end up reading fiction without a trigger warning? "What to Submit. On-topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

flkenosad 3y ago
I read the first paragraph, then skipped to the comments and realized it's fiction but I'm not sure I would have known otherwise. What gives it away to you that it's a work of fiction?
- sltkr 3y ago
  It's a combination of things that screams fiction: 1. Most stories about lesbians that aren't attributed to a definitely female author are written by males. 2. It seems unlikely someone so pedantic to keep full records of their partners would be careless enough to leave the file open for someone to find. 3. Keeping spreadsheets of data about your partners is not very usual to begin with (though not unheard of), but it's hard to imagine anyone would be so meticulous to rate a partner by now fewer than a hundred criteria. I don't think I could even formulate a 100 criteria worth caring about, let alone gather enough data about a person to assign concrete ratings in just a few months of dating.
  - flkenosad 3y ago
    > 1. Most stories about lesbians that aren't attributed to a definitely female author are written by males. You'd have to be well versed in lesbian literature to know this. > 2. It seems unlikely someone so pedantic to keep full records of their partners would be careless enough to leave the file open for someone to find. For sure but this is well into the story. > 3. Keeping spreadsheets of data about your partners is not very usual to begin with (though not unheard of), but it's hard to imagine anyone would be so meticulous to rate a partner by now fewer than a hundred criteria. I don't think I could even formulate a 100 criteria worth caring about, let alone gather enough data about a person to assign concrete ratings in just a few months of dating. The problem is HN is THE place for "not very usual (though not unheard of)" so there is a genuine disconnect going on. You can see the evidence in the comments here.
- lazyasciiart 3y ago
  It‘s narrated in the first person from the perspective of a woman, written by a dude.
trealira 3y ago
There is a lot of stuff related to literature, history, and art that could be posted on HN if being "intellectually gratifying" is the only criterion for being "on-topic." Yet all that's posted here is tech stuff and startups, pretty much. I think of this site as a "tech/tech industry" website. Also, I would say that this story isn't particularly intellectually gratifying.

flkenosad 3y ago

I read the first paragraph, then skipped to the comments and realized it's fiction but I'm not sure I would have known otherwise. What gives it away to you that it's a work of fiction?

sltkr 3y ago
It's a combination of things that screams fiction: 1. Most stories about lesbians that aren't attributed to a definitely female author are written by males. 2. It seems unlikely someone so pedantic to keep full records of their partners would be careless enough to leave the file open for someone to find. 3. Keeping spreadsheets of data about your partners is not very usual to begin with (though not unheard of), but it's hard to imagine anyone would be so meticulous to rate a partner by now fewer than a hundred criteria. I don't think I could even formulate a 100 criteria worth caring about, let alone gather enough data about a person to assign concrete ratings in just a few months of dating.
- flkenosad 3y ago
  > 1. Most stories about lesbians that aren't attributed to a definitely female author are written by males. You'd have to be well versed in lesbian literature to know this. > 2. It seems unlikely someone so pedantic to keep full records of their partners would be careless enough to leave the file open for someone to find. For sure but this is well into the story. > 3. Keeping spreadsheets of data about your partners is not very usual to begin with (though not unheard of), but it's hard to imagine anyone would be so meticulous to rate a partner by now fewer than a hundred criteria. I don't think I could even formulate a 100 criteria worth caring about, let alone gather enough data about a person to assign concrete ratings in just a few months of dating. The problem is HN is THE place for "not very usual (though not unheard of)" so there is a genuine disconnect going on. You can see the evidence in the comments here.
lazyasciiart 3y ago
It‘s narrated in the first person from the perspective of a woman, written by a dude.

trealira 3y ago

There is a lot of stuff related to literature, history, and art that could be posted on HN if being "intellectually gratifying" is the only criterion for being "on-topic." Yet all that's posted here is tech stuff and startups, pretty much. I think of this site as a "tech/tech industry" website. Also, I would say that this story isn't particularly intellectually gratifying.