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Rhishi Pethe
Personal blog · sftw.substack.comscienceeconomicsbusiness
Rhishi Pethe writes Software is Feeding the World, a personal blog at sftw.substack.com about science, economics and business. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The second most photographed fruit in the world”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack post on the engineering and economics of blueberries. One commenter describes it as a really interesting writeup and recommends it.
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.
Rational Techno-Optimism for Agriculture and Food.
Most-linked posts?
- The second most photographed fruit in the world2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-22
- Chasing Counter Seasonality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Read a really interesting writeup on blueberry engineering and economics a while ago. Worth checking out. https://sftw.substack.com/p/chasing-counter-seasonality
Comment linking /p/chasing-counter-seasonality
on “Behold the pawpaw”Submitted Cherry Processing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The second most photographed fruit in the world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avocados Stopped Being Seasonal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case of missing American mushrooms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chasing Counter Seasonality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Harvesting of Lettuce as a story · 1 points
HN discussion