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Peter Diamandis
Personal blog · diamandis.com/blogsciencestartups
Peter Diamandis's personal blog at diamandis.com covers science and startups. Since 2014, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “A false sense of security”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Diamandis's blog for posts on exponential technology, abundance, and energy and hardware trends, and point to his book Abundance as the fuller statement of that argument.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Founder of XPRIZE and pioneer in exponential technologies. Building a world of Abundance through innovation, longevity, and breakthrough ventures.
Most-linked posts?
- A false sense of security3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-14
- /abundance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-10
- Upside of Teslas Autopilot – Peter Diamandis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-10
What Hacker News says?
Good luck building a phone outside of China. https://www.diamandis.com/blog/shenzhen-global-hardware-capi... Huawei had basically cornered the 5G technology, getting all competitors out of the market, but then Trump ended it. China is buying strategically important technology companies from around the globe, like Kuka for example, and then moves the knowledge into their country. If this trend continues, eventually w…
Comment linking /blog/shenzhen-global-hardware-capital
on “Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping”Submitted A false sense of security as a story · 72 points
HN discussionI believe this kind of technological breakthrough is the main point of Diamandis' book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think . That would be a liberating event -- the key would be then getting the energy technology to societies in need - mainly a technological leap frogging, like mobile phones in developing nations did. > https://www.diamandis.com/abundance
Comment linking /abundance
on “Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study”Submitted Upside of Tesla's Autopilot as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRelated: Problems are Goldmines by Peter H. Diamandis > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
Comment linking /blog/problems-are-goldmines
on “How to Get Startup Ideas”Submitted A False Sense of Security as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> wouldn't mind working hard to start something new from scratch. Look for Problems to Solve. Problems are Goldmines. > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
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on “Ask HN: Affordable, online university for getting a degree to quit programming?”Submitted Metatrends Shaping the Next Decade as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> The book Factfulness makes a pretty good case that people generally think the world is falling apart but that objectively the world is currently in better shape than any other period of history. The book, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler also makes the same point about how focusing on the negative can obscure the good that is happening in the world. https://www.di…
Comment linking /blog/the-world-is-still-better-than-you-think
on “Mean World Syndrome”Submitted Global Population Is Declining and That’s Okay as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWow, this guy has a whole conglomerate of hype companies.[1] Things he was hyping in 2012: - Dean Kamen’s "Slingshot," a technology which can transform polluted water, salt water or even raw sewage into incredibly high-quality drinking water for less than one cent a liter. Units actually cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at first. They became somewhat cheaper, but never cost-effective. Coca-Cola bought about 150…
Comment linking /abundance
on “Metatrends shaping the next decade”Submitted Upside of Teslas Autopilot – Peter Diamandis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShould it? I've always wondered if or how causative these two charts are: https://www.diamandis.com/hubfs/Diamandis_March_2017-Theme/I... https://conscienhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2018-O...
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on “How the U.S. government could lower food prices”Submitted Future of Higher Education: Apprenticeships vs. Business School as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOriginal blog post: https://www.diamandis.com/blog/false-sense-security Notable bit: > We had a group of 35 expert AV/Production team that were isolated in one corner of the office running the live Broadcast. 100% of that team wore masks throughout the production. There were NO COVID Cases amongst this group. Bottom line again: Masks Work.
Comment linking /blog/false-sense-security
on “Peter Diamandis started a Covid vaccine company and hosted a superspreader event”Submitted Abundance Insider as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: Problems are Goldmines - Peter H. Diamandis > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
Comment linking /blog/problems-are-goldmines
on “Ask HN: Startup Ideas”Submitted Future of Nuclear Energy as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> when I think about what my next career move should be, none of the opportunities around me excite me. Look for problems to solve; problems are Goldmines. On this subject, Peter Diamandis is brilliant > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
Comment linking /blog/problems-are-goldmines
on “Ask HN: What are some opportunities that will cause a step change in my career?”Submitted No Human Coders in 5 Years? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLink above leads to the homepage. This is the actual one: http://www.diamandis.com/blog/upside-of-teslas-autopilot
Comment linking /blog/upside-of-teslas-autopilot
on “Upside of Tesla's Autopilot”Submitted Peter Diamandis: Stem Cell Revolution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSynthetic Biology - DNA is essentially software. Incidentally, recommend reading BOLD by Peter Diamanis - he's unusually good at capturing the latest trends in exponential technology > http://www.diamandis.com/bold
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on “Ask HN: What is now?”Related: Peter Diamandis - Problems Are Goldmines > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
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on “What problem are you trying to solve?”Related to the topic of business ideas, Problems are Goldmines - Peter Diamandis > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
Comment linking /blog/problems-are-goldmines
on “Top Small Business Ideas for Your Startup”Peter Diamandis has a similiar view to Paul Graham- Problems are Goldmines. Terrific food for thought > https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
Comment linking /blog/problems-are-goldmines
on “Ask HN: Getting Startup Ideas”It’s a massive opportunity for humanity, not a threat. On this subject, Peter Diamandis is brilliant > http://www.diamandis.com/blog/ai-bring-it-on
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on “Ask HN: I have 1 hour to introduce AI to high schoolers”> “This means a future of abundance. A future where there is no poverty, where people can have whatever they want in terms of goods and services.” – Elon Musk > “I think we see a path now where the world gets much more abundant and much better every year.” – Sam Altman https://www.diamandis.com/blog/elon-sam-abundance
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on “Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI”A group of concerned scientists warned of “imminent large-scale technological unemployment”? They described a “cybernation revolution,”-- in 1964. On this subject Peter Diamindis is brilliant> http://www.diamandis.com/blog/is-tech-unemployment-good-or-b...
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on “Ask HN: Anyone had experience when industries automated the jobs? Advice to us?”If the concept of exponentially growing technologies intrigues you, I can recommend Peter Diamandis' book Abundance [1]. [1] http://www.diamandis.com/abundance/
Comment linking /abundance/
on “The World in 2050 [video]”
