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Rob L'Heureux
Personal blog · roblh.substack.com · on HN as rob_lhbusinesseconomicshardware
Rob L'Heureux writes Happy Future, a personal blog at roblh.substack.com about business, economics and hardware. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Failure Mode: Welchification”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter cites this Substack post by an American engineer on US difficulty manufacturing artillery shells. The post is about munitions production, and the comment only uses it as a source.
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.
A Substack by Rob L'Heureux (literally, The Happy in French) focused on how industry makes material progress happen across the worlds of bits and atoms.
Most-linked posts?
- Failure Mode: Welchification2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-19
- As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
What Hacker News says?
Actually, an American engineer notes, the US is actually "struggling" with manufacturing artillery shells for some strange reason. https://roblh.substack.com/p/as-much-as-you-ever-wanted-to-k...
Comment linking /p/as-much-as-you-ever-wanted-to-know
on “300k airplanes in five years”Submitted As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production as a story · 185 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Failure Mode: Welchification as a story · 6 points
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