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Incautious Optimism
Personal blog · jordanwtaylor2.substack.comsciencehardware
Incautious Optimism is a personal blog at jordanwtaylor2.substack.com about science and hardware. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A Substack on technology with an optimistic flavour; earlier articles are free and later ones paid. One commenter suggests it, and another links a wind tunnel article and adds water tunnel history.
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.
A dense but whimsical technical blog for curious monkeys.
What Hacker News says?
You might enjoy the Incautious Optimism Substack. Recent articles are paid but earlier ones are free and it’s full of fascinating technologies with an optimistic flavour. https://jordanwtaylor2.substack.com/
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on “The pivot”Submitted Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels as a story · 67 points
HN discussionThe article also references another article by the same author about cavitation and propellors, which is studied with water tunnels.[1] The water tunnel was invented by Sir Charles Parsons. Parsons had invented the compound steam turbine, the long shaft of finned wheels seen inside all modern turbo devices, in 1884. The first turbine product was turbo-generators for power stations. It took a while for demand to buil…
Comment linking /p/killer-bubbles
on “Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels”Submitted Ugly infrastructure: Why can't we have nice things? as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Air Computer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the most predictable kind of renewable energy is also the hardest to use as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stand aside, Musk The Buck Rogers approach to space as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Light the Nuclear Candle – Incautious Optimism as a story · 1 points
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