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Arnaud Bertrand
Personal blog · arnaudbertrand.substack.compoliticseconomicsai
Arnaud Bertrand's personal blog at arnaudbertrand.substack.com covers politics, economics and ai. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Substack on China and geopolitics. One HN commenter points to his recent review of a Xi Jinping governance book as a shorter alternative to reading the book itself.
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.
Arnaud's Substack.
What Hacker News says?
The fifth book is on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/XI-JINPING-GOVERNANCE-CHINA-V/dp/7119... It's already an English translation. For something shorter, you can see Arnaud Bertrand's recent review. https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/the-book-the-west-refu... The review is behind a paywall, but not expensive. If you want to read policy documents directly (primary source), try the State Council / Chinese government…
Comment linking /p/the-book-the-west-refuses-to-read
on “DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]”Submitted What's left for us after AI? China's thinkers have different answers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI say China is not starting any wars, you gesture at some vague "not behaving nicely" as if this is equivalent to a war or some damning proof that they will start a war - these are nowhere near the same thing. China has killed maybe 50 people outside it's borders since 2000. The US has killed 100,000-250,000 in that time period. There is no amount of rationalization that can reverse the deaths of those people or the…
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on “Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model”Submitted The most important AI story is happening in a place you've never heard of as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real as a story · 1 points
HN discussion