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Niccolo Soldo
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Niccolo Soldo writes Fisted by Foucault, a personal blog at niccolo.substack.com about politics and philosophy. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Niccolo Soldo's Substack for its interview series (with Glenn Greenwald, Marc Andreessen and Scott Lowe) and its commentary on Russia and Ukraine. Most comments cite or link the posts rather than judge them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
You'll never think of Foucault the same way again.
Most-linked posts?
- The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-31
- /p/the-kinshasa-interviews-glenn-greenwald2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-07
What Hacker News says?
From greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukrain... And slightly more edgy: https://niccolo.substack.com/p/fuck-it-russias-final-break-w...
Comment linking /p/fuck-it-russias-final-break-with?utm_source=url
on “Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president”Submitted The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen as a story · 100 points
HN discussionHow the f can they provide better information on the pandemic unless you have actual virologists and public health experts actually working on it there? That's a good question. I don't really know what kind of failure causes mainstream sources to be this bad. Here's Scott with his guess which is... I wanted to say just as good as mine but probably much better! https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-trag…
Comment linking /p/the-kinshasa-interviews-glenn-greenwald
on “Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web”Submitted Unrepentant Baguette Merchant as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI completely agree with your premise. It is unprincipled that you can make fun of some races, disabilities, and traits but not others. But I completely disagree with your conclusion. The debate was much healthier with fewer limitations. The limits didn't make it more nuanced and interesting, quite the opposite. Instead of making a point, people just squabble over who offended whom. Unbelievably boring. Since this is…
Comment linking /p/the-kinshasa-interviews-glenn-greenwald
on “Congress demands tech CEOs censor the internet even more aggressively”Submitted No, the USA Is Not Headed Towards Civil War as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe interviewer has an interesting interview with Glenn Greenwald as well: https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-kinshasa-interviews-glenn...
Comment linking /p/the-kinshasa-interviews-glenn-greenwald
on “The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen”Submitted “F*** It ” Russia's Final Break with the West as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNot my field at all but I read this piece and an interview with him [0]. I don't know, this guy comes across as an arrogant asshole to me. I struggled to finish the interview. [0] https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-troms-interviews-scott-lo...
Comment linking /p/the-troms-interviews-scott-locklin
on “Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry (2010)”Submitted Alex Kaschuta: Dracula's Masseuse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPossibly related: Marc Andreessen is referred to as "the world's most successful individual who has not done LSD with both Grimes and Azealia Banks." https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc...
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on “The US military is starting to get interested in Starship”Submitted The Zürich Interviews – Darren J. Beattie (Trump Admin Official) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat fragment of the article is not blaming AI for that. It is criticising Marc Andreesen's literal response in this 2021 interview: https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc...
Comment linking /p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc-andreessen
on “You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them”
