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John C. Dvorak
Personal blog · dvorak.substack.compoliticseconomics
John C. Dvorak writes The Oasis, a personal blog at dvorak.substack.com about politics and economics. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Mass Hysteria and Covid-19”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link John C. Dvorak's Substack, a tech columnist's writing that includes COVID-era columns and posts he has written since his earlier technology columns. The comments mostly point to individual posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays discussing politics, technology and world affairs.
Most-linked posts?
- Mass Hysteria and Covid-193 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-13
What Hacker News says?
A few people mentioned they miss his writing, so i thought it was worth pointing out he still writes occasionally: https://dvorak.substack.com/ though it's less technology focused..
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on “John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990”Submitted Why the Electoral College Will Be Banished as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSadly, you might be right. E.g. in another post he discusses the "mass hysteria" of covid...."psychogenic" illness, and this: "The severity of the virus from country to country is a reflection of media coverage, not the other way around." https://dvorak.substack.com/p/mass-hysteria-and-covid-19
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on “Why the Electoral College Will Be Banished”Submitted The Death of Expertise and the Rise of the Internet as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI didn't include the link but here is the last series part 1: https://dvorak.substack.com/p/the-covid-decision-tree-part-o... He wrote about COVID for six years. Someone should compile all those columns into a book or at least a single PDF.
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on “John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has passed”Submitted Mass Hysteria and Covid-19 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLooking good for him: https://dvorak.substack.com/p/the-great-fealty-test?triedRed... Hope he'll recover quickly.
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on “John C. Dvorak – heart attack – in hospital”Submitted Twitter and Elon Musk as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “Free and Open Internet” Hypocrites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Space Jerks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mass Hysteria and Covid-19 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Driving Cars: Still a Bad Idea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid Deaths, by the Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Capture of a Country as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deconstructing Tucker as a story · 1 points
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