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Samo Burja
Personal blog · brief.bismarckanalysis.compoliticseconomics
Samo Burja writes Bismarck Brief, a personal blog at brief.bismarckanalysis.com about politics and economics. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Samo Burja's Bismarck Analysis briefs for analysis of companies, institutions and military affairs such as Russia. Commenters cite them for their interesting details and writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Intelligence-grade analysis of key industries, organizations, and live players.
Most-linked posts?
- Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-11-29
What Hacker News says?
I wish Anthropic luck. The company seems to be operating in a classic failure mode: being more concerned with its industry than its competitors and customers. See the first few points here: https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/27-insights-from-three-... Where I could be wrong is the CEO is technical, however most of what I hear from them is about industry and social impact instead of product.
Comment linking /p/27-insights-from-three-years-of-bismarck
on “The Anthropic Economic Index”Submitted Drone Adoption Favors Quantity over Quality in Warfare as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMy impression of Burja is that he’s better at the writing - there are always interesting details - than average but not generally a superior analyst. For example: https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/modern-russia-can-fight... has interesting and useful details but I think has been demonstrably and obviously short of similar analysis from experts in the field who are less certain but more reliable vis-a-vis outcomes.
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on “Why America can’t build”Submitted The Attempt to Reform Intel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carl Zeiss' Tradition of Knowledge in Optics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Long March into Space (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raytheon Is Now Run Under the Portfolio Theory of the Firm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chile Is a Politically Disunited Resource Exporter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mexico's Drug Cartels Are Not Competitors to the State as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steady but Niche Progress in 3D Printing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted China's Military Has Transformed Itself to Take Taiwan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft's Transformation into a Data Center Giant as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Geothermal Energy Turns Planets into Power Sources as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tradition of Knowledge Behind ASML as a story · 1 points
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