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1. mrandi+W[view] [source] 2026-01-30 20:00:20
>>Imusta+(OP)
Neat! Over 300,000, putting me in the top 1,000.
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2. tomber+XI9[view] [source] 2026-02-03 04:15:47
>>mrandi+W
Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I love HN but maybe I need another hobby or three.
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3. japhyr+cJ9[view] [source] 2026-02-03 04:18:47
>>tomber+XI9
Can you expand a bit on how you feel about it? :)
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4. tomber+JK9[view] [source] 2026-02-03 04:30:55
>>japhyr+cJ9
Apparently I can spend many, many words expanding on things!

I just looked it up, and apparently War and Peace is about 590,000 words. A book that is a joke in every 90's cartoon as something "really heavy to drop on someone's head", and apparently I've written almost that much arguing with people on a programmers forum.

I've been on here for about 10.5 years, so averaging about 48,515 per year. My favorite book is The Go Between by LP Hartley, and that's 98,621 words [1], so I'm basically writing the equivalent of about half of my favorite novel every year.

So it's a bit weird to me. A large part of me thinks I should have written five novels instead.

[1] https://howlongtoread.com/books/779942/The-GoBetween

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