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Aaron Brethorst
Personal blog · brethorsting.com/blog · on HN as aaronbrethorstaicareer
Aaron Brethorst's personal blog at brethorsting.com covers ai and career. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “The Data Center Bubble”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Aaron Brethorst's post 'The Data Center Bubble' to argue that AI data center spending is overbuilt. The comments are a sarcastic remark and a bare link, with no comment on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
Most-linked posts?
- The Data Center Bubble3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-11
What Hacker News says?
The 2nd Ave Subway in Manhattan, with preparatory construction beginning in 1942. First phase opened in 2017. Although the outcome should be celebrated, the slowness and the added costs that brings certainly should not be. While every project is unique, it is not immediately clear why digging a subway on the Upper East Side is twenty times more expensive than in Seoul or ten times more expensive than in Paris. https…
Comment linking /blog/2025/07/state-capacity-and-eight-parking-spaces/
on “Slow”Submitted State capacity and eight parking spaces as a story · 76 points
HN discussionI wrote up a bit more information on the subject: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2024/02/how-i-manage-my-to...
Comment linking /blog/2024/02/how-i-manage-my-todo-lists/
on “Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)”Submitted Demystifying Claude Code Hooks as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis is fine. https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2025/10/the-data-center-bu...
Comment linking /blog/2025/10/the-data-center-bubble/
on “Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off”Submitted Choose Boring Technology, Revisited as a story · 7 points
HN discussionGotta keep up the bubble. The Data Center Bubble: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2025/10/the-data-center-bu... Global Crossing Is Reborn: https://pracap.com/global-crossing-reborn/
Comment linking /blog/2025/10/the-data-center-bubble/
on “Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside”Submitted The Data Center Bubble as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2025/10/the-data-center-bu...
Comment linking /blog/2025/10/the-data-center-bubble/
on “OpenAI updates terms to forbid usage for medical and legal advice”Submitted The Coming Lob App Renaissance (and Security Nightmare) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://brethorsting.com - my personal blog with links to my various online presences.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted We Are All in the C-Suite Now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBills are popping up in state legislatures across the United States to legalize plug-in solar. I wrote about a bill that was up for consideration here in Washington state earlier this year: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/washington-should-... Unfortunately, the bill didn't make it over the finish line during the 2026 session. The Washington legislature only met for two months this year: https://www.bretho…
Comment linking /blog/2026/01/how-the-washington-state-legislature-works/
on “UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August”Submitted Instantaneous Velocity Is a Trap as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy home office gets up to about 1500ppm of CO2 by the end of the workday, which explains a lot about why I often feel exhausted after the end of a long, uninterrupted session in there (especially when I’m on back to back zoom calls). I now have several plants in there that are supposed to be especially good at sucking up CO2, and my sensor reports that the current level is slightly below atmospheric ambient CO2 leve…
Comment linking /blog/2026/01/how-the-washington-state-legislature-works/
on “Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?”Submitted Claude Code is unreasonably good at building MVPs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A retrospective on iRooster, my first Mac OS X app as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Visual Studio Skeptic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Greenhouse and the Lens: Two Modes of Agentic AI Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Washington State Legislature Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Washington State Should Legalize Balcony Solar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Rebase for the Terrified as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One weird trick to manage engineering crises; stakeholders love it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift for Android Won't Amount to Anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Managers Should (Sometimes) Write Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Coding Tools – Not Skynet, Not a Stochastic Parrot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing the Economics of Quality with Claude Code-Generated User Stories as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skills Are the Most Underrated Feature in Agentic AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Volunteer Open Source Taught Me About Remote Teams as a story · 1 points
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