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Auke’s Substack
Personal blog · aukehoekstra.substack.comscienceeconomics
Auke’s Substack is a personal blog at aukehoekstra.substack.com about science and economics. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Batteries: How cheap can they get?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts on how cheap batteries can get, alongside news about CATL sodium-ion batteries. The comments cite the posts but do not comment on the writing 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.
My personal Substack.
Most-linked posts?
- Batteries: How cheap can they get?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-04
What Hacker News says?
CATL sodium-ion batteries, currently in mass production. https://aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-how-cheap-can-... https://energynews.biz/catls-19-kwh-sodium-ion-claims-face-r... https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/08/catl-sodium-ion-batter...
Comment linking /p/batteries-how-cheap-can-they-get
on “Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study”Submitted Batteries: How cheap can they get? as a story · 297 points
HN discussionThis was just on the front page https://aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-how-cheap-can-...
Comment linking /p/batteries-how-cheap-can-they-get
on “Will we ever get fusion power?”