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M. F. Robbins
Personal blog · martinrobbins.substack.comcultureeconomicspolitics
M. F. Robbins writes The Value of Nothing, a personal blog at martinrobbins.substack.com about culture, economics and politics. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only a bare link to a post titled 'I visited the infamous...', shared in a thread about a city-building game the city would prefer you didn't play. The comment says nothing about 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.
The rise and fall of culture and institutions. Click to read The Value of Nothing, by M. F. Robbins,
What Hacker News says?
https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/i-visited-the-infamous-...
Comment linking /p/i-visited-the-infamous-hs2-bat-tunnel
on “A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't”Submitted Why does Britain feel so poor? as a story · 186 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Apocalypse Is Boring Now as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why HS2 cost so much as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I visited the infamous HS2 'Bat Tunnel' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plato vs. Grok as a story · 1 points
HN discussion