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Simon Hackett
Personal blog · simonhackett.comeconomicssystems
Simon Hackett's personal blog at simonhackett.com covers economics and systems. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Simon Hackett (MD of Internode) talks about Australia's NBN Costs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-17, 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 Simon Hackett's posts on Australian broadband policy, including NBN pricing and network design, and on home battery hardware such as the Redflow Gen3 unit.
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.
Thoughts from the field
Most-linked posts?
- Simon Hackett (MD of Internode) talks about Australia's NBN Costs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-18
What Hacker News says?
God no! That is not how Labor's NBN works, nor how it is priced. Simon Hackett, the founder and former owner of Internode did a very good job of explaining by NBN Co.'s pricing model is retarded and why the network build is dumb [1]. In brief, the wholesale pricing model precludes new ISPs entering the market, and Labor's NBN is not dark fibre to the premises, again see [1], along with Simon's other talks on the sub…
Comment linking /2013/07/17/nbn-fibre-on-a-copper-budget/
on “Level3 is without peer, now what to do?”Submitted Simon Hackett (MD of Internode) talks about Australia's NBN Costs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was skeptical, the site seemed to only show renders, nothing practical. It looks real though: https://simonhackett.com/2021/05/23/redflow-gen3-zbm/ Datasheet: https://redflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/RDF1199-Redfl... Nothing on price
Comment linking /2021/05/23/redflow-gen3-zbm/
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