[HN Gopher] "That Shape Had None" - A Horror of Substrate Indepe...
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       "That Shape Had None" - A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short
       Fiction)
        
       Author : casmalia
       Score  : 64 points
       Date   : 2026-03-02 18:45 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (starlightconvenience.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (starlightconvenience.net)
        
       | DiabloD3 wrote:
       | This is a good one.
        
       | nh23423fefe wrote:
       | This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
        
       | throw310822 wrote:
       | I usually don't leave this kind of comments, but I really can't
       | read yellow text on dark red background for more than 20 seconds.
        
         | cpill wrote:
         | Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
        
         | Groxx wrote:
         | Oddly, I don't get the reader-mode option in Firefox for the
         | site... one of these days I should probably figure out why that
         | sometimes happens
        
           | mrec wrote:
           | It's an odd site design. Stories are loaded dynamically by
           | script based on the URL fragment identifier; I'd imagine
           | Reader Mode isn't geared toward that sort of thing.
           | 
           | I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was
           | a good idea.
        
       | varjag wrote:
       | Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
        
         | hirsin wrote:
         | https://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the
         | namesake of that story from digital graphics.
        
           | flobosg wrote:
           | Discussed here a few weeks ago:
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
        
           | Groxx wrote:
           | And for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern
           | variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
        
       | the_af wrote:
       | Interesting.
       | 
       | Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
        
       | Muromec wrote:
       | Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead
       | of living the ones that are happening.
        
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