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Alex Heath writes Sources, a personal blog at sources.news about ai and business. Since 2025, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Snap's Crucible Moment”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
12HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Alex Heath's newsletter as a source for news on tech companies, including Google Search and OpenAI ads and model development, and for quotes from Sam Altman. The comments do not judge 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.

Covering the AI race.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Snap's Crucible Moment
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. ChatGPT is next: https://sources.news/p/openai-ads-leader-sam-altman-memo-sta...

    Comment linking /p/openai-ads-leader-sam-altman-memo-stargate

    on “Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image”
  2. Submitted YouTube announces AI reorg and voluntary layoffs as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Some more info in a Wired article [1] and quotes from Sam Altman to Alex Heath [2]. The official blog post says vaguely "The signals we are seeing from upcoming model progress make clear that we need a broader approach", but the quote from Sam Altman explicitly says unreleased models are showing "various degrees of misalignment". This is also significant - pausing frontier training runs for multiple weeks to ensure…

    Comment linking /p/openais-big-slowdown

    on “Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities”
  4. Submitted Google DeepMind – The Demis Firewall as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Microsoft Cracks Down on Tokenmaxxing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Inside Apple's Siri revamp, Anthropic readies Mythos as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, world models, and the AI bubble as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Qualcomm's CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, the data center backlash as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted New Gemini Flash could be around the corner as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Snap's Crucible Moment as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Snap to announce mass layoffs, Perplexity integration called off as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Revelations from Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Thinking Machines is nothing without its people as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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