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Rory Cellan-Jones
Personal blog · rorycellanjones.substack.comculturehardware
Rory Cellan-Jones writes Rory’s Always On Newsletter, a personal blog at rorycellanjones.substack.com about culture and hardware. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Substack of Rory Cellan-Jones, a former BBC technology correspondent, covering tech news such as bitcoin and digital forgeries, and reporting on innovation in treating Parkinson's.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A tech notebook with a focus on health - and occasional glimpses of a dog called #sophiefromromania.
What Hacker News says?
> I hope at some point AI will replace most diagnostics and doctors that are not up to date. That's a valid hope, but not a very realistic one just yet. The error rates are just too high. Medicine is messy and complex. Yes, doctors get it wrong every now and then. But AI gets it wrong far more frequently, still. It can be used as a tool in the arsenal of the medical professional, but we are very far away from self-s…
Comment linking /p/wearenotwaiting-the-parents-who-hacked
on “Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app”Submitted My role in a courtroom drama over the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe weird thing is being bad at it hasn't stopped him. (That and there's some billionaire behind the whole thing, which probably helps.) This article was interesting: https://rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-bitcoin
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on “Digital forgeries are hard”Submitted Why the iPhone Won [video] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI’d recommend Rory Cellan Jones on Substack [1]. He was the technology correspondent for the BBC until a few years ago - and is now retired partly because of the onset of Parkinson’s. As a result he’s devoted much of his retirement to reporting on innovation in treating and managing Parkinson’s. [1] https://rorycellanjones.substack.com
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on “Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces Breakthrough for Parkinson's Biomarker”