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cat ~/hacker-fables
$ Hacker Fables
The satirical cyberpunk novella to read while your AI agent completes Jira tickets.
“Dan Brown on ketamine.”
“Neon Genesis Evangelion meets programming.”
“The world’s first LeetCode-Hard Sci-Fi Novel.”
“If you think you’re a really good programmer, read Hacker Fables. You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.”
“A fitting swan song for the age of human programmers.”
AVAILABLE FORMATS (ORDER BY difficulty DESC;)
SUPPORT THE AUTHOR
Buy me a coffee
# First $50 funds a real (non-AI) cover for the book.
READ FROM YOUR TERMINAL
# Read it as a man page
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curl -sL https://hacker-fables.onrender.com/hacker-fables.man | man -l -
# Or install it system-wide
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curl -sL https://hacker-fables.onrender.com/hacker-fables.man \
| sudo tee /usr/local/share/man/man1/hacker-fables.1 > /dev/null \
&& man hacker-fables
# Read it as a GNU Info manual
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info -f <(curl -sL https://hacker-fables.onrender.com/hacker-fables.info)
# Or install it system-wide
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curl -sL https://hacker-fables.onrender.com/hacker-fables.info \
| sudo tee /usr/local/share/info/hacker-fables.info > /dev/null \
&& sudo install-info /usr/local/share/info/hacker-fables.info \
/usr/local/share/info/dir \
&& info hacker-fables