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Jasmine Sun
Personal blog · jasmi.newsaiculturestartups
Jasmine Sun writes @jasmine’s substack, a personal blog at jasmi.news about ai, culture and startups. Since 2025, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “No Data Centers in My Backyard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jasmine Sun's Substack for reporting on local opposition to data centers, drawn from a tour of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is cited to explain why residents push back on data center builds.
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.
an anthropology of disruption 📍 essays on AI and Silicon Valley culture.
Most-linked posts?
- No Data Centers in My Backyard5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-08-03
- America Against China Against America3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-08-29
- AI friends too cheap to meter3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-10
- My Claude Code Psychosis – By Jasmine Sun3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-25
- Notes on AI, Labor, and China2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-20
What Hacker News says?
This Substack post by a journalist touring through Wisconsin and Michigan has been pretty interesting, at least for getting a new perspective on why there's some local opposition to data centers: https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard
Comment linking /p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard
on “The war on data centres is a bit fake”Submitted America Against China Against America as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSV has done enough to influence Americans to hate them without the help of foreign enemies. https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgvTlt1VB8
Comment linking /p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard
on “Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built”Submitted The old world is dying as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted America Against China Against America as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted America Against China Against America as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted America Against China Against America as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on AI and Writing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fit to Rule as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI friends too cheap to meter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Interview with Fred Turner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Data Centers in My Backyard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No data centers in my backyard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on AI, Labor, and China as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why LLMs Are Bad Writers but Good Editors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code Psychosis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Claude Code Psychosis – By Jasmine Sun as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Friends Too Cheap to Meter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Friends Too Cheap to Meter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you high-agency or an NPC? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No data centers in my backyard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on AI, Labor, and China as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI vs. The Pentagon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code Psychosis as a story · 1 points
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