The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick (1953)

Jtsummers · 2025-07-30T22:46:27 1753915587

https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v004n06_... - Direct link to the story.

akkartik · 2025-07-30T23:03:23 1753916603

That was what I submitted. I don't know why it got edited.

quuxplusone · 2025-07-31T04:37:08 1753936628

I suspect you can edit it back right now, just like you can edit the title back if HN changes it. The automatic stuff runs only once on initial submit (AFAIK).

akkartik · 2025-07-31T04:40:25 1753936825

Good to know. I can't edit anymore. Not sure if I could edit when I first responded. It was 4 hours later.

Jtsummers · 2025-07-30T23:05:16 1753916716

Canonical links. HN changes it when one is found.

Terr_ · 2025-07-30T20:58:24 1753909104

Or putting the lyrics of It's A Small World After All into the genome of Deinococcus radiodurans, radiation-resistant bacteria.

https://cacm.acm.org/research/organic-data-memory-sing-the-d...

zabzonk · 2025-07-30T20:24:19 1753907059

Hardly PKD's greatest work. But it is fun to see how many famous pulp authors are represented in this edition of the mag!

readthenotes1 · 2025-07-30T19:43:55 1753904635

P48, Ants, was written by the same guy who created the saint in which Roger Moore did his best James Bond

stronglikedan · 2025-07-30T20:40:39 1753908039

Should have used birds: https://youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo

ggm · 2025-07-31T00:46:01 1753922761

The Bach beetle would definitely scuttle. It's walk would have a pattern, but you wouldn't see it at first. Fractal even.

thimkerbell · 2025-07-30T21:30:10 1753911010

Extra points for the HN user who declickbaits.

Jtsummers · 2025-07-30T22:29:06 1753914546

> Extra points for the HN user who declickbaits.

What do you consider clickbait in this title?