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CDR Salamander
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CDR Salamander is a personal blog at cdrsalamander.substack.com about security, politics and history. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its coverage of US Navy problems, such as shipyard dysfunction and ship security lapses. One commenter points readers to it as a source on these issues.
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.
National security, maritime challenges, naval issues with a flavoring of other things I find interesting.
What Hacker News says?
For the interested reader: https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/ (The Good Commander has dedicated himself to exposing problems of this sort that plague our Navy) I had the pleasure of spending part of my service trying to escape the shipyards. I lacked the perspective of these widespread issues as a lowly Junior Officer (I was trying to survive the equivalent of the daily standup without getting flayed for any number…
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on “Revitalizing US Navy Shipbuilding”Submitted While We Quibble and Fool, the China Builds as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThey do. If you read this other review of the Manchester incident[1], there are (or at least used to be) staff that continually swept for TEMPEST[2] hazards. "It appears that, once again, no call for outside help. I am sure we do, as we once did, have people who all they do is look for “Tempest Hazards” on ships. We do still have that, yes?" [1] https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/there-is-dysfunction-an... [2] htt…
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on “Sailors Secretly Install Starlink on Their Littoral Combat Ship”Submitted The Aspects of the Sevastopol Attack You Need to Focus On as a story · 2 points
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