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Jamesin Seidel writes Jamesin’s Substack, a personal blog at jamesin.substack.com about startups, business and ai. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2025

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this Substack essay titled 'My AI skeptic friends are all nuts'. One commenter answers the skeptics' question about missing AI startups by citing YC batch statistics on AI share.

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.

My personal Substack.

What Hacker News says?

  1. "Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups, products or features?" You're posting this question on a forum hosted by YC. Here's a story from March 2024: "YC’s latest W24 batch includes 240 companies. A significant portion of the companies have some AI component, with 63% tagged as “Artificial Intelligence” — a notable increase from 51% in the preceding S23 batch and 29% before that.". https://jamesin.substac…

    Comment linking /p/analysis-of-ycs-latest-w24-batch

    on “My AI skeptic friends are all nuts”
  2. Submitted What's working for YC companies since the AI boom as a story · 140 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Another Instinct Article as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Chapter One – General Partner as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Analysis of YC's Latest S24 Batch as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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