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Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein writes Crazy Stupid Tech, a personal blog at crazystupidtech.com about startups, ai and business. Since 2024, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Will AI Eat the Browser?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.

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37mentions?
19HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

A newsletter by Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein. HN commenters link Malik's piece on China's EV boom and its effect on Tesla and global EV markets.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Crazy Stupid Tech is a weekly newsletter about innovation and new technologies by longtime tech journalists Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein. Together we have followed Silicon Valley’s innovation engine for decades. We've seen a lot. But one observation stands out: The best ideas - the ones that launch

Most-linked posts?

  1. Will AI Eat the Browser?
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-12-08
  2. China's EV Boom Is Bad for U.S..Tech
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-18
  3. Bill Gross wants to save media with AI
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
  4. Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-09
  5. The Why of Crazy Stupid Tech
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-04
  6. Behold, an AI startup with a real business
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-07
  7. Future of Internet in the Age of AI
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-19
  8. Cloudflare's CEO wants to save the web from AI's oligarchs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. criddell · 2025-03-19Recommends
    Om Malik recently wrote what I though was a pretty insightful piece on what's going on in EVs and China: https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/chinas-ev-boom-is-bad-fo...

    Comment linking /archive/chinas-ev-boom-is-bad-for-ustech/

    on “Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets”
  2. Submitted iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype as a story · 259 points

    HN discussion
  3. His latest thing was https://crazystupidtech.com/ - a joint newsletter with Fred Vogelstein.

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    on “Om Malik, 1966-2026”
  4. Submitted Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different? as a story · 161 points

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  5. Submitted With AI, the future of augmented reality is in your ears as a story · 30 points

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  6. Submitted Bluesky isn't just another Twitter/X competitor. It fixes social media as a story · 22 points

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  7. Submitted China's EV Boom Is Bad for U.S..Tech as a story · 13 points

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  8. Submitted Cloudflare's CEO wants to save the web from AI's oligarchs as a story · 9 points

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  9. Submitted Om Malik – China's EV Boom Is Bad for U.S..Tech as a story · 5 points

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  10. Submitted A biology lab without test tubes? Sooner than you think, says Arc's Patrick Hsu as a story · 5 points

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  11. Submitted Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter as a story · 4 points

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  12. Submitted Will AI Eat the Browser? as a story · 4 points

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  13. Submitted At 20, Techmeme news aggregator has never been hotter as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Meet Visual AI's Unlikely Winner as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted What DeepSeek Means for Everyone as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted The Why of Crazy Stupid Tech as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted The Why of Crazy Stupid Tech as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted Behold, an AI startup with a real business as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Cloudflare's CEO wants to save the web from AI's oligarchs. His plan isn't crazy as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted China's EV Boom as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Will A.I. Eat the Browser? as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Will AI Eat the Browser? as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Future of Internet in the Age of AI as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted An argument with Om about Wired spawned this newsletter. RIP brother as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Behold, an AI startup with a real business as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Jensen's Trillion-Dollar Token Factory as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Om Malik – What DeepSeek Means for Everyone as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Why the AI revolution needs tollbooths as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted AI Age Brings the Biggest Acquhire as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Can AI shrink the billions we spend developing drugs? BioPhy says it knows how as a story · 1 points

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