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Dominic Cummings
Personal blog · dominiccummings.substack.compoliticsphilosophy
Dominic Cummings's personal blog at dominiccummings.substack.com covers politics and philosophy. Since 2021, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dominic Cummings' Substack for his political commentary on Brexit, the 2016 Vote Leave campaign and why Britain feels poor. One commenter calls his Brexit analysis better than an earlier post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Systems Politics and Regime Change.
Most-linked posts?
- 'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-18
- /p/q-and-a2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-06
What Hacker News says?
Here's a better analysis of the Brexit thing which was posted here yesterday. It was mostly decided by the fact that the pro-Brexit people had better marketing campaign. https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/q-and-a
Comment linking /p/q-and-a
on “Trump wins presidency for second time”Submitted A plea to Silicon Valley: Write the plan for the next GOP candidate as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe logo got a second lease of life after NeXT was acquired by Apple. A bit of British political trivia: Dominic Cummings, the campaign director of the Vote Leave organisation in the 2016 Brexit referendum, nicked the NeXT logo and made a few tweaks for Vote Leave : > The logo was stolen from Steve Jobs. We couldn’t afford to hire a top agency and they wouldn’t have worked with us anyway. So I thought about Jobs’ ad…
Comment linking /i/117842715/where-did-take-back-control-come-from
on “What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)”Submitted Dostoyevsky, the modern intelligentsia, the spiritual crisis of the West as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEveryone appears to agree that Britain is broken. The author recognizes that the issue is not a lack of taxes, but lack of care at where the money goes. Sadly the author I think is getting distracted by specific issues. Focusing on school or social costs. Or specific large project over runs. While I do not agree with him on many things, I think Dominic Cummings's treatment of the subject digs deeper: https://dominic…
Comment linking /p/q-and-a
on “Why does Britain feel so poor?”Submitted How to help parents give their children better education? (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI models, power, politics, and performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tolstoy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted People, ideas, machines XII: Theories of regime change and civil war as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Government via WhatsApp: Boris Johnson Calls Health Secretary “Fucking Hopeless” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading List as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons as a story · 1 points
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