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Nicholas Gurewitch
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Nicholas Gurewitch writes The Perry Bible Fellowship, a personal blog at pbfcomics.com about culture. Since 2008, 95 different Hacker News readers have linked it 107 times, most often “Deeply Held Beliefs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 5 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link single Perry Bible Fellowship comics as in-jokes or references in threads, such as 'skub', 'weeaboo' and 'deeply held beliefs'. A few call the strip a favourite.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- 'one of the best known strips'; 'a fine joke'; 'still great'; a 'favorite' comic; 'lesser-known geniuses'
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Offbeat comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch. Includes archives, information about the author, and purchases.
Most-linked posts?
- Deeply Held Beliefs10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2020-10-01
- /comics/skub/9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-08-23
- /comics/automatic-business/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-28
- /comics/now-showing/4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-12-23
- Hacked3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-05
- The Perry Bible Fellowship3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-26
- /comics/weeaboo/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-19
- /comics/reset/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-14
- /comics/sir-leopold/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-11
- /comics/youll-be-ok/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-22
What Hacker News says?
Pro-skub or anti-skub? https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/
Comment linking /comics/skub/
on “Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore”Submitted Hacked as a story · 72 points
HN discussionIt doesn't seem to censor the n-word. I would think it's pretty important to censor the n-word checked, failed to censor: n-word every word in this comic (nsfw for offensive words) https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-offenders/
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on “Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font”Submitted Telephone as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI'm sure that's the case where you live, but where I live our public transport isn't 100% disabled-accessible. If you prefer, you can substitute "Like a robot delivery driver, who must deliver to flats without lifts" or "Like a robot cop, chasing truant teens through a mall" [1] [1] http://pbfcomics.com/comics/truancy-bot/
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on “SoftBank Agrees to Buy Boston Dynamics From Alphabet”Submitted The Perry Bible Fellowship as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLet's hope it goes better than this: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/automatic-business/
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on “I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]”Submitted Hacked as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-dreamcatcher-3000/
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on “MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’”Submitted The Perry Bible Fellowship as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo it isn’t, it’s a reference to a Perry Bible Fellowship comic https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/ (This one is sfw, not all of the comics are) Even urban dictionary doesn’t contain a definition for skub as a slur.
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on “I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models”Submitted Deeply Held Beliefs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJust to clarify, this is what was going through my mind https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/
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on “Right to Repair laws have now been proposed in all U.S. states”Relevant PBF comic: http://pbfcomics.com/134/
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on “Neal Stephenson wants to revolutionize sword fighting video games”https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/ :-)
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on “Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025”Perry Bible Fellowship: https://pbfcomics.com/ One of the best known strips, and a fine joke about historical fiction (or maybe just history itself): https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/
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on “The Far Side – By Gary Larson”I am reminded of this cartoon, http://pbfcomics.com/111/
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on “Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google”https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/
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on “I went to the office for the first time. I fucking hated it”Story in comic form: http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF215-Kitty_Photographer...
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on “How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a child pornographer”Among other great comics cited in various replies around here, I would also suggest : • The not-updated-often-but-still-great « perry bible fellowship » : http://www.pbfcomics.com • The overly optimistic « Buni » : http://www.bunicomic.com/ • The Norwegian POV : http://www.optipess.com/ (relevant to main topic http://www.optipess.com/2010/09/20/no-girls-allowed/ ; or to news http://www.optipess.com/2010/10/08/missin…
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on “Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? He Just Did”My all time favorite theory: http://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteors/
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on “Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?”http://pbfcomics.com/book/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_the_Fuck_to_Sleep Intro to programming in Python - I don't remember which one though. I think it was one of the O'Reilly ones.
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on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?”I can't help but agree. I've been playing piano since childhood too, though in a desultory, non-Conservatory way. It's been great fun reading through this comment section and seeing Piano HN, but I'm really surprised that this is the first comment that acknowledges the skub-nature [0] of the book, and that the author doesn't actually play piano but in fact armchair-QBs it via observation and discussion with his two…
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on “Fundamentals of Piano Practice”Let'em duke it out. http://pbfcomics.com/comics/spelling/
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on “Sqlite: Code Of Conduct”OT: Reminded me of this: http://pbfcomics.com/45/
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on “I Am Not Satoshi”Hah, I thought it was a reference to this PBF comic at first. http://pbfcomics.com/45/
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on “I Am Not Satoshi”That shirt reminds me of one of my favorite PBF comics: http://pbfcomics.com/90/
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on “How My Start-Up Failed”See also https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/
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on “The universe is expanding faster than expected”You missed the point. It's a fishing question. > know/care This is an implied project management question. (1) Can the employer even speak to it? (2) Does the employer see those who specialize on these areas as less important than other areas, in that they are fine with having no opinion on the matter? > legacy practices Did you not see this? I picked HTML and (presentational) CSS (classes) for a reason, as they are…
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on “Questions to ask your potential employer”> Blaming it on the two-party system is such a short-sighted US-centric point of view. There are plenty of countries with other types of democracies, and they have roughly similar problems There are also plenty of countries with very close to somewhat different systems. Let's take France, where there are > 2 party - more like a dozen, of various sizes and shapes -, and where the president is a direct elect from the…
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on “We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't”
