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Nick Rogers
Personal blog · deadneurons.substack.comaieconomics
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.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
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.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Quick reads on Tech, Econ & AI, by Nick Rogers.
Most-linked posts?
- The Quiet Unwinding of Microsoft and OpenAI2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-09
- The Duelling Rhetoric at the AI Frontier2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-24
- PHP2Shell Explained: PHP2Shell Was in the Training Data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-21
- Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-20
What Hacker News says?
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]”Submitted Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington as a story · 186 points
HN discussion> 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”Submitted PHP2Shell Explained: PHP2Shell Was in the Training Data as a story · 9 points
HN discussionTristan 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”Submitted The Quiet Unwinding of Microsoft and OpenAI as a story · 6 points
HN discussion- because of this https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling...
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on “Why are AI leaders calling for a slow down? [audio]”Submitted What if AI is both good and not that disruptive? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Is No Evidence of Aggregate AI Job Loss as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Time We Talked About AI and Software Security as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Most Valuable Things You Know Are Things You Cannot Say as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Open Letter to Mr Zuckerberg as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Context Management: Why the Model Should Manage Its Own Context as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Housing: The Greatest Policy Failure in the Western World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Not Going to Kill Software Engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Intelligence Crisis Scenario Is Wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Category Theory, AI and Jobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI May Bring Unprecedented Employee Surveillance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Next Great Platform Shift: Personal Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Anthropic the New Netscape? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Has Never Been Capital Light as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Integrated Copilots Suck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where AI Will and Won't Replace Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Rotation from Bits to Atoms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Companies should ship CLIs, not MCPs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Are a Business with Only One Client as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyone is wrong about AI and Software Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Anthropic's Cowork Actually Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AGI Is Here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking, Fast and Wrong as a story · 1 points
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