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Nick Rogers writes Dead Neurons, a personal blog at deadneurons.substack.com about ai and economics. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “The Quiet Unwinding of Microsoft and OpenAI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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Why HN links it

Linked by HN readers as commentary on the business motives behind AI labs, such as OpenAI's IPO, AGI certification and Microsoft lock-in. Also cited for a PHP vulnerability timeline.

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Quick reads on Tech, Econ & AI, by Nick Rogers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Quiet Unwinding of Microsoft and OpenAI
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-09
  2. The Duelling Rhetoric at the AI Frontier
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-24
  3. PHP2Shell Explained: PHP2Shell Was in the Training Data
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-21
  4. Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. So what might have been the incentive for OpenAI to do all this shenanigans? It might have to do with the upcoming IPO and getting its models certified for AGI and getting out of lockin with Microsoft - https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/the-quiet-unwinding-of-mi... When it comes to corporations/companies, always follow the money.

    Comment linking /p/the-quiet-unwinding-of-microsoft

    on “Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]”
  2. Submitted Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington as a story · 186 points

    HN discussion
  3. > 1 August 2026: 2 days after OpenAI invites Calif to join its “Patch the Planet” initiative, Ryan Austin finds the RCE paths, tweets a cryptographic hash on 5 August, and submits the bug and working RCE proof-of-concept to PHP between 11 August and 14 August. https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/php2shell-explained-php2s...

    Comment linking /p/php2shell-explained-php2shell-was

    on “Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities”
  4. Submitted PHP2Shell Explained: PHP2Shell Was in the Training Data as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Tristan Buckmaster, the mathematician at the center of it ( https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/ ) put out a public statement that everybody should read (pdf) - https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf So what might have been the incentive for OpenAI to do all this shenanigans? It might have to do with getting its models certified for AGI and getting out of lockin with Microsoft - https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/t…

    Comment linking /p/the-quiet-unwinding-of-microsoft

    on “OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out”
  6. Submitted The Quiet Unwinding of Microsoft and OpenAI as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. - because of this https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling...

    Comment linking /p/frontier-labs-are-selling-garbage

    on “Why are AI leaders calling for a slow down? [audio]”
  8. Submitted What if AI is both good and not that disruptive? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted There Is No Evidence of Aggregate AI Job Loss as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted It's Time We Talked About AI and Software Security as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why the Most Valuable Things You Know Are Things You Cannot Say as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted An Open Letter to Mr Zuckerberg as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Agentic Context Management: Why the Model Should Manage Its Own Context as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Housing: The Greatest Policy Failure in the Western World as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted AI Is Not Going to Kill Software Engineering as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Why the Intelligence Crisis Scenario Is Wrong as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Category Theory, AI and Jobs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted AI May Bring Unprecedented Employee Surveillance as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The Next Great Platform Shift: Personal Agents as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Is Anthropic the New Netscape? as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Software Has Never Been Capital Light as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Why Integrated Copilots Suck as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Where AI Will and Won't Replace Us as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted The Great Rotation from Bits to Atoms as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Companies should ship CLIs, not MCPs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted You Are a Business with Only One Client as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Everyone is wrong about AI and Software Engineering as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted How Anthropic's Cowork Actually Works as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted AGI Is Here as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Thinking, Fast and Wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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