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Eschaton
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Eschaton is a personal blog at eschatonblog.com about politics. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Eschaton posts on business, finance and politics news, such as Amazon's tariff pricing, UBS's $2 billion trading loss, Uber's self-driving safety record and fake news on Facebook.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Short version: "suck on this." Long version: http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/04/one-true-wanker-of-decad...
Comment linking /2012/04/one-true-wanker-of-decade.html
on “Welcome to the ‘Sharing Economy’”Submitted The Grift Goes On as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAmazon has now retracted the "policy" https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/04/cant-make-dumb-joke-any... https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1917221012560637966
Comment linking /2025/04/cant-make-dumb-joke-anymore.html
on “Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political"”Submitted More of a Shelbyville Idea (Tesla) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI found this funny: http://www.eschatonblog.com/2011/09/unauthorized_16.html "I think even I could code the little trading computer with something like "if bet>$1 trillion, deny authorization." Or, ok, these things are complicated, how about if "Probability of loss>$1 trillion is >.00001 then deny authorization."
Comment linking /2011/09/unauthorized_16.html
on “The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass”Submitted The Smartest Boys on the Internet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are 12.5 deaths per billion vehicle miles driven. This is the statistic that self-driving cars have to beat in order to be "safer." Based on this, Uber has had about 3 million test miles (under mostly safer than average road conditions, but I'll leave that aside). They're now at 333 deaths per billion miles driven. Gonna have to go a few more days without a death before they're "safer." (This is not all robot…
Comment linking /2018/03/the-faith-is-strong.html
on “It certainly looks bad for Uber”Submitted Robotaxis as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> people no longer trust the MSM because they're being told not to by politicians I'm not sure that's the biggest part of the problem, though maybe it's different in my bubble. In my experience, the MSM destroyed their own credibility by acting as stenographers for political and corporate power, and, in the process, spreading "fake news". And it wasn't the little independent partisan sources, it was literally the Wa…
Comment linking /2017/03/only-fools-and-frenchmen.html
on “Facebook will never take responsibility for fake news”Submitted Uber Death Watch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nice Thing as a story · 1 points
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