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Ben Van Roo

Personal blog · benvanroo.substack.comaipolitics

Ben Van Roo writes Beyond Visual Range, a personal blog at benvanroo.substack.com about ai and politics. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Are a few dozen SBIR mills sucking the air out of small business innovation?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

AI, Defense, Policy, and what it takes to build all of them.

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  1. Are a few dozen SBIR mills sucking the air out of small business innovation?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. georgecmu · 2022-06-02

    Submitted Are a few dozen SBIR mills sucking the air out of small business innovation? as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  2. Reechik · 2026-03-12

    Submitted Measuring the Machines That Kill as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. iddan · 2025-12-27

    Submitted GenAI.mil Is Live. Now Comes the Hard Part: Building the Digital NCO Corps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. selimthegrim · 2022-06-04

    Submitted Are a few dozen SBIR mills sucking the air out of small business innovation? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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