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Ryan McBeth
Personal blog · ryanmcbeth.substack.compoliticssecurity
Ryan McBeth's personal blog at ryanmcbeth.substack.com covers politics and security. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “America Loses the Next War (Won't Be a Cyber War, It Will Be a DevOps War)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts are about the decline of authenticity in an attention economy. The only comment shown discusses what authenticity means and whether people are ever genuine in public, without judging the writing.
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.
Intelligence Analysis and Author Updates.
Most-linked posts?
- America Loses the Next War (Won't Be a Cyber War, It Will Be a DevOps War)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-12
What Hacker News says?
Maybe this is my own neurospice speaking but...What even is authenticity? Do we even see authenticity in public? Any awareness that we are being observed introduces some amount of Hawthorne effect. Probably the most genuine folks are the introverts and socially averse. Regional burns are espoused to celebrate "radical self-expression" , and unlike the Big Burn, their smaller size seems to promote authenticity to a g…
Comment linking /
on “The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy”Submitted Decoding NATO Military Symbology: The Universal Language of Defense as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted America Loses the Next War (Won't Be a Cyber War, It Will Be a DevOps War) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing Deceptive Imagery from an Explosion in Konstantinovka as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How America Loses the Next War as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
