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Re:Ask HN: Looking for a link to a short story I read in a c... by ahazred8ta on Saturday March 21, 2026 @10:48PM (#47473974)
The classic Slow Tuesday Night (1965) by R. A. Lafferty. Sort of post-singularity. I liked the part where they use an AI-assisted ghostwriting machine to spit out a scholarly text in seconds. (People who buy it just read the quick summary.)

https://www.ralafferty.org/works/stories/slow-tuesday-night/

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Slow+Tuesday+Night

Vaguely similar but slower: Vernor Vinge's Fast Times At Fairmont High and Rainbows End. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5393037-fast-times-at-fa...

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Re:Ask HN: Looking for a link to a short story I read in a c... by kqcso on Saturday March 21, 2026 @10:50PM (#47473986)
THANK YOU! That was it.
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Re:Ask HN: Looking for a link to a short story I read in a c... by ahazred8ta on Saturday March 21, 2026 @11:13PM (#47474106)
The hive mind never sleeps. ;-)
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