Hacker Anthology is what happens when you inject fiction into the command line of reality. Faction stories — part fact, part fiction — spun from real-world headlines, startup chaos, cyber leaks, and tech drama.
Imagine HackerNews got drunk with Black Mirror, and they started roleplaying historical fiction. That’s us.
We take raw internet lore — a GitHub repo flame war, a VC meltdown, an obscure RFC gone rogue — and remix it into cinematic short stories told from the POV of AI misfits, terminal cowboys, and burnout founders one commit from collapse.
If you ever wished blog posts had plot twists, you’re in the right shell.
All content for Hacker Anthology is the property of Hacker Anthology and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Hacker Anthology is what happens when you inject fiction into the command line of reality. Faction stories — part fact, part fiction — spun from real-world headlines, startup chaos, cyber leaks, and tech drama.
Imagine HackerNews got drunk with Black Mirror, and they started roleplaying historical fiction. That’s us.
We take raw internet lore — a GitHub repo flame war, a VC meltdown, an obscure RFC gone rogue — and remix it into cinematic short stories told from the POV of AI misfits, terminal cowboys, and burnout founders one commit from collapse.
If you ever wished blog posts had plot twists, you’re in the right shell.
A 15,000‑satellite, laser‑linked ‘shadow internet’ lets phones route above borders—until lawsuits, subpoenas, and a weaponized firmware quirk force SpaceX COO Gwynne Shortwell to choose between neutrality and national directives. Can the sky stay sovereign‑agnostic when everyone wants a priority lane?
Denied power by an algorithm she never consented to, a woman teams with noyb’s Martin Baumler to turn her blackout into a precedent-setting fight over Article 22—forcing Europe’s credit engines to choose between explainability with human review or no automation at all.
When catastrophic cyberattacks paralyze America’s railways, two dismissed whistleblowers and an embattled government insider must outmaneuver denial, chaos, and their own demons to unmask a hidden enemy before the nation grinds to a halt.
When a world-changing imaging technology falls into the wrong hands, its creators must risk everything to stop it from becoming a tool of oppression—or be consumed by the system they set in motion.
When a record Texas Lottery jackpot is rigged by a tech-powered syndicate, a stubborn 74-year-old watchdog races to expose the truth before innovation and greed erase the last vestiges of luck and fairness.
When a whistleblower leak exposes a secret FDA cabal enabling tainted drug imports, embattled regulator Janet Woodcroft must outmaneuver tech-savvy journalists and global pharma moguls—or risk the collapse of America’s medicine cabinet.
As a fertility crisis threatens humanity’s future, a renegade team of scientists must decide whether to embrace radical gene editing or protect the fragile essence of what makes us human.
As AI caregivers transform elder care across rival nations, a haunted engineer and his adversaries must confront the ultimate question: can compassion be programmed, or will humanity lose itself in the process?
In a city where AR bubbles dictate every perception, sociologist Kelvin Zhan must choose: shatter the illusions dividing society or preserve a comforting digital order—before reality itself dissolves.
When a groundbreaking robotics rollout sparks sabotage and rebellion, a visionary CEO must untangle human betrayal from rogue AI before his dream—and society—are torn apart.
After a massive biometric breach, legendary hacker Inti De Culevane leads a resistance against the omnipresent Convenience+ platform, racing to reclaim privacy before society surrenders to surveillance forever.
In a world where digital identity is up for grabs, tech visionaries, privacy crusaders, and everyday heroes clash over a revolutionary device that could either save or enslave humanity online.
As AI 'friends' engineered by Meta threaten to redefine human connection, a fractured society must choose between algorithmic intimacy and the messy, irreplaceable bonds of real friendship.
When living micro-robots escape Harvard’s labs and are weaponized by shadowy rivals, a fractured team of scientists must risk everything to stop their invention from becoming a tool of mass manipulation—or destroy it themselves.
As RoboLat rockets from Medellín to global dominance, CEO Felipe Chavira must choose between his ideals and the seductive power of tech empire-building, all while espionage and betrayal threaten to unravel everything.
When a breakthrough AI makes memory infallible and surveillance inescapable, its creator must decide: expose the system’s dark side or watch the world surrender to a new kind of control.
When a breakthrough self-boosting vaccine ignites global hope—and fear—an MIT team must outwit sabotage and moral peril to prevent their invention from becoming a weapon of chaos.
As AI breaks the barrier to animal communication, scientists and tech giants clash over who controls the new voices—and what happens when animals demand to be heard.
When NASA’s revival of Voyager 1 triggers cryptic transmissions from deep space, a fractured team of engineers must decode the probe’s secrets before a looming blackout severs humanity’s last link to the stars.
In a world where algorithms dictate reality, the Carepunks—led by visionary rebels Audrey Thanh and E. Glen Wyle—risk everything to reclaim digital freedom before the soul of humanity is lost to the network.
Hacker Anthology is what happens when you inject fiction into the command line of reality. Faction stories — part fact, part fiction — spun from real-world headlines, startup chaos, cyber leaks, and tech drama.
Imagine HackerNews got drunk with Black Mirror, and they started roleplaying historical fiction. That’s us.
We take raw internet lore — a GitHub repo flame war, a VC meltdown, an obscure RFC gone rogue — and remix it into cinematic short stories told from the POV of AI misfits, terminal cowboys, and burnout founders one commit from collapse.
If you ever wished blog posts had plot twists, you’re in the right shell.
