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Dan Davies
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Dan Davies writes "Back of Mind", a personal blog at backofmind.substack.com about economics and culture. Since 2023, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Corey and the Robots”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Corey and the Robots2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-03
What Hacker News says?
Here are all the links for this blog post https://sequoiacap.com/article/follow-the-gpus-perspective/ https://sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-microsoft-to-shift-github-c... https://archive.is/m5MHe#selection-1483.0-1483.74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNQDrF0HjtI https://www…
Comment linking /p/tokenalysis-and-john-henry
on “AI's Affordability Crisis”Submitted How the wrong side won at Boeing as a story · 77 points
HN discussionThis didn't actually happen: https://backofmind.substack.com/p/chortle-on-a-chortle/
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on “Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave”Submitted The brompton-ness of it all as a story · 44 points
HN discussionTruth. There was never any attempt to route it over that grave. https://backofmind.substack.com/p/chortle-on-a-chortle
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on “$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf”Submitted The reading of difficult books, a guide to the bored (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI guess gigawatts is how we roughly measure computing capacity at the datacenter scale? Also saw something similar here: > Costs and pricing are expressed per “token”, but the published data immediately seems to admit that this is a bad choice of unit because it costs a lot more to output a token than input one. It seems to me that the actual marginal quantity being produced and consumed is “processing power”, which…
Comment linking /p/new-new-rules-for-the-new-new-economy
on “Anthropic expands partnership w Google and Broadcom for multiple GW of compute”Submitted Rent, Always Rent - economics of the Zohranmarket as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finally We Have Created the Silver Bullet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A meeting at the weekend – or how doughnuts nearly killed capitalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is infrastructure so expensive in common law countries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overfitting and Excuses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Statistical Heart of the System as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted skim reading artificial intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corey and the Robots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted History is the bygone which won't stay bygone as a story · 1 points
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