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Shanaka Anslem Perera
Personal blog · shanakaanslemperera.substack.comeconomicsaipolitics
Shanaka Anslem Perera's personal blog at shanakaanslemperera.substack.com covers economics, ai and politics. Since 2025, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Inverted Panopticon: China Weaponized the West's Own Wiretap Infrastructure”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on a US F-15E shootdown over Iran, where the comment cites it alongside a point about defence spending. The comment says nothing about the writing itself.
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.
Author of The Ascent Begins | Independent Analyst | The forces shaping money, geopolitics, AI, science, and sovereignty don’t move in silos. They move in symphony. I try to understand the reality a bit better. Click to read Shanaka Anslem Perera, a Substack with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- The Inverted Panopticon: China Weaponized the West's Own Wiretap Infrastructure4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
- The Nitrogen Trap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-16
What Hacker News says?
> Government obviously pretty silent on all these failures and media doesn't want to dig and ask hard questions Some analysts are sure drumming up the severity [0]. In the fog of war, it is hard to tell what's exaggerated and what's not. The proposal by the current US Admin to increase defence spending by 40% to $1.5t is not a welcome sign for those opposed to heavy spending, for any number of reasons. [0] https://s…
Comment linking /p/the-last-molecule-standing
on “US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran releases wreckage images”Submitted Five Years of Structural Deficit Broke the Silver Market as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Reveals the Fatal Architecture of AI Economics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Nitrogen Trap as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the Strait of Hormuz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inverted Panopticon: China Weaponized the West's Own Wiretap Infrastructure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sleep-Age Paradox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structural Collapse: How Google's Integrated Stack Is Dismantling OpenAI Thesis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Nitrogen Trap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted China Read the West's Wiretaps for Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inverted Panopticon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inverted Panopticon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Butterfly That Swallowed the Dragon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Structural Limits of Global Central Banking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Russia's Hydrocarbon Revenue Crisis and the Mathematics of State Exhaustion as a story · 1 points
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