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Pieter Garicano
Personal blog · siliconcontinent.comeconomicsbusiness
Pieter Garicano writes Silicon Continent, a personal blog at siliconcontinent.com about economics and business. Since 2024, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Failure Costs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Pieter Garicano's posts cover AI and European tech policy. The one comment only quotes a passage comparing Meta's AI spending with Germany's defence budget, in a discussion of a European AI model.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays about Europe, economics, innovation, and growth.
Most-linked posts?
- Failure Costs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-05
- European Stagnation Is Real2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-13
- How to Torch 220B Euros2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-14
- Is GDPR undermining innovation in Europe?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-13
What Hacker News says?
"Champions of a European AI model should ask themselves if a European effort would be more effective than Meta, which this year will spend more on chips ($125 billion) than Germany spends on defense ($114 billion) and offer salaries of over $100 million to attract the best researchers, and is still failing to catch up. Elon Musk tried and failed to build a good AI model." https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/nineteen-…
Comment linking /p/nineteen-thoughts-on-ai-and-europe?hide_intro_popup=true
on “GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands”Submitted How Brussels writes so many laws as a story · 60 points
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HN discussionSubmitted EU AI Act is much worse than you think as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from Ukraine as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Torch 220B Euros as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on AI and Europe as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of the Single Market as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Costs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You cannot align an organization one agent at a time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted European Stagnation Is Real as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The task is not the job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted European Stagnation Is Real as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted It is all about the superstars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Costs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GDPR Impact on Innovation in Europe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is GDPR undermining innovation in Europe? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to avoid being held up by the labs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Two Europes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What explains heterogeneity in AI adoption? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is the AI Act so hard to kill? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Europe's capital markets remain fragmented and inefficient as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted To Incinerate 220B Euros as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Costs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It is all about the superstars as a story · 1 points
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