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Atoms vs Bits
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Atoms vs Bits is a personal blog at atvbt.com about philosophy, economics and culture. Since 2021, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this essay on what Rick Rubin taught the author about being a better engineer, including how turn-takers and interrupters differ in conversation and listening.
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.
Everything / nothing
Most-linked posts?
- There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-02
- Facts about throwing good parties3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-03
- Loud and Wrong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-18
- You're Weirder Than You Think2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-30
What Hacker News says?
> Now, I was raised in a family where good communication was never held in high regard and you can clearly see that in a way we hold conversations as a group: People often speak on top of each other and it’s completely normal to interrupt the other person just to share a random thought you just had. Unfortunately mixes listening with judgement about interruption. Good article about how turn-takers and interrupters h…
Comment linking /interrupters-and-non-interrupters/
on “How Rick Rubin taught me to be a better engineer”Submitted Facts about throwing good parties as a story · 963 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happiness Is Two Scales as a story · 105 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Theory of Gut Bacteria Value as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're Weirder Than You Think as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned from Lifting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Request for Punctuation Marks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're Weirder Than You Think as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spaced Repetition Through Newsletters (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facts About Throwing Good Parties as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breathe Through It as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facts About Throwing Good Parties as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uninterrupted Work – nonlinear returns vs. high fixed startup costs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The biggest AI risk is setting off the nukes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Umami Exists and MSG is its Messenger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closest Thing to Crazy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Good Sides of Nepotism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Al Capone Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Chimp-Pig Hypothesis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Magic Cutoffs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loud and Wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Carrot Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing an Intuition for Georgism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loud and Wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prediction Ever: Darwin and the Founder Effect as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it possible to have negative opportunity costs? as a story · 1 points
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