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Austin Vernon
Personal blog · austinvernon.eth.link/blogeconomicsbusinessscience
Austin Vernon's personal blog at austinvernon.eth.link covers economics, business and science. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-26, 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 this blog's posts on house construction and building efficiency, and one points to a post on robotic bricklaying as a companion read. Comments also describe its hosting on IPFS with an ENS name.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-11
- America's Aerospace Industry Is Regenerating2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-01
- Tunnels are our Transportation Future2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-03
- Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-07
- So you want to build a house more efficiently2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-26
What Hacker News says?
First you need to get a metamask wallet. Then you buy some ETH for the wallet. Finally go to ens.domains and register your name. It is very friendly with IPFS, which is how I host my blog. So I put the IPNS permalink in my ENS name contract (managed on ens.domains). The .link is there because browsers can't resolve ENS names. Cloudflare runs a system that checks Ethereum for the browser and redirects to the correct…
Comment linking /blog/ipfsbasics.html
on “So you want to build a house more efficiently”Submitted So you want to build a house more efficiently as a story · 478 points
HN discussionI recall finding the below blog post on HN not long ago which I think pairs well with this. https://austinvernon.eth.link/blog/construction.html
Comment linking /blog/construction.html
on “Where are the robotic bricklayers?”Submitted Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity? as a story · 218 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way as a story · 167 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rural America Is Gearing Up for a Generation of Change as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tunnels are our Transportation Future as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Geothermal Going to Be a Thing? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tunnels are our Transportation Future as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted America's Aerospace Industry Is Regenerating as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted America's Aerospace Industry Is Regenerating as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build a Giant Carmaker as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
