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Alden Whitfeld

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Alden Whitfeld writes Heretical Insights, a personal blog at hereticalinsights.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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3HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked by one HN reader for a post whose URL slug is about whether Elon Musk killed something. The comment calls a claim garbage but gives no detail on the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

In search of reality.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Yeah, that is a garbage claim - https://hereticalinsights.substack.com/p/did-elon-musk-kill-...

    Comment linking /p/did-elon-musk-kill-millions

    on “Grok 4.5”
  2. Submitted Cognitive ability (probably) peaks between 50 and 60 as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Is America Moving Left Economically? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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