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James Wang
Personal blog · weightythoughts.comaistartupseconomics
James Wang writes Weighty Thoughts, a personal blog at weightythoughts.com about ai, startups and economics. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Knowledge Agents: Beat Frontier Models with Better Structure”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments do not describe the linked posts. The only comment is a reply in an ILGPU thread about how its tone was read, and it does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
VC on AI, deep tech, startups. Former Bridgewater, Google[x], startup founder. Read by top engineers, fund managers, and policymakers.
Most-linked posts?
- Knowledge Agents: Beat Frontier Models with Better Structure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-22
- CUDA Is Still a Giant Moat for Nvidia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-23
What Hacker News says?
"it seems" combined with "I'm learning" was meant to convey ignorance not arrogance. I think I'm just being misread and that's probably my fault. It wouldn't be the first time - so I'm sorry if you found it off-putting My day job is optimization for logistics and multi-agent systems on edge deployments. We vary between heterogenous compute environment on-platform and occasional connections to cloud-like servers, but…
Comment linking /p/cuda-is-still-a-giant-moat-for-nvidia
on “ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F#”Submitted CUDA Is Still a Giant Moat for Nvidia as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Is AI Bad at Writing? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the Right Balance in Regulating AI? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI's Plummeting Prices Are a Software Story, Not a Hardware One as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most AI startups are doomed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowledge Agents: Beat Frontier Models with Better Structure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowledge Agents: Beat Frontier Models with Better Structure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted World Models Can Change Everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Gains Starting to Show in the Real Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who's Winning the AI War? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compute Is Overrated as AI's Bottleneck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fall of Data Moats as a story · 1 points
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