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Jacob Trefethen

Personal blog · blog.jacobtrefethen.comsciencehealth

Jacob Trefethen's personal blog at blog.jacobtrefethen.com covers science and health. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Technologies that won't exist in five years”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2024

Science with purpose

Most-linked posts?

  1. Technologies that won't exist in five years
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. jseliger · 2024-05-23

    Submitted No more strep throat as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  2. apsec112 · 2024-10-19

    Submitted Technologies that won't exist in five years as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. zerealshadowban · 2025-08-03

    Submitted What does AI progress mean for medical progress? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. jseliger · 2024-02-10

    Submitted Technologies that won't exist in five yrs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. jseliger · 2024-02-08

    Submitted Technologies that won't exist in 5 years as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. kurhan · 2024-02-05

    Submitted Technologies that won't exist in 5 years as a story · 2 points

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  7. jseliger · 2024-06-11

    Submitted U.S. policy ideas for 10 lifesaving technologies as a story · 1 points

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