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Matt Clancy
Personal blog · mattsclancy.substack.comeconomicsscience
Matt Clancy writes What's New Under the Sun, a personal blog at mattsclancy.substack.com about economics and science. Since 2020, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “How common is independent discovery?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matt Clancy's Substack for economics essays on innovation and venture finance, such as its posts on venture predation and how common independent discovery is. Only one commenter links it.
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.
What academia knows* about innovation.
Most-linked posts?
- How common is independent discovery?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-06
- Science Is Getting Harder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-01
- Do the same mechanisms that create complex life also create complex technology?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-10
What Hacker News says?
The counter argument is to examine how likely it is that someone actually would have created Amazon and not just a cruddy online Wal-Mart https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/how-common-is-independent... Looks pretty unlikely to me, personally, judging by the low stats on independent discovery
Comment linking /p/how-common-is-independent-discovery
on “Venture Predation: Using venture finance to price below costs”Submitted Science Is Getting Harder as a story · 187 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some of the forces blocking new ideas in science as a story · 170 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge as a story · 115 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do the same mechanisms that create complex life also create complex technology? as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Technological Progress Slowing? The Case of American Agriculture as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Innovation Gets (Mostly) Harder as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Decline in Writing About Progress as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How common is independent discovery? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching Innovative Entrepreneurship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science Is Getting Harder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replication is hard, even without publication bias as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Useful Are Learning Curves, Really? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An equation to determine when robots will take your job as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Innovators Who Immigrate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Breakthroughs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Innovation at the Office – What's New Under the Sun (Matt Clancy) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How common is independent discovery? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progress in Programming as Evolution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Work and the Future of Innovation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Knowledge and Innovation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How long does it take to go from science to technology? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimal Kickstarter – Buterin, Hitzig, and Weyl's proposal to fund public goods as a story · 1 points
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