[mathewsanders]

Gematria is featured a lot in scott alexander’s Unsong (serialized fiction that was published in via blog) http://unsongbook.com/

Very quick summary is that Kabbalah is real, and corporations set up content farms to brute force search for names of god so they can copyright and sell them.

It’s a really fun read (author probably also has a hacker news account, so if you see this comment thank you for writing such a fun book).

[cjohnson318]

This sounds a lot like Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in that they're a mash-up of (1) taking an ancient tradition literally and (2) a critique of capitalism and modern culture.

[strbean]

Throw in a bit of the movie Pi for good measure :)