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Sven Schnieders
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Sven Schnieders writes Unfashionable, a personal blog at unfashionable.blog about science, philosophy and history. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter cites a post by this blog on Y Combinator and the AI bubble as support for a point about YC funding competing AI startups, including the PearAI forking incident.
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.
For some things Harvard suffices; this blog is for the rest – by Sven Schnieders
Most-linked posts?
- Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-30
What Hacker News says?
It's funny because it's causing a tragedy of the commons where there are so many AI startups that YC is funding companies that compete with each other. Case in point, the the PearAI incident a year ago where a YC company forked and rebranded an open source repo from another YC company against its license: https://unfashionable.blog/p/yc/ HN thread on the apology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41701265 Speakin…
Comment linking /p/yc/
on “How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator”Submitted Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth as a story · 546 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem is not plagiarism, but cargo cult science as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted Psychology, a Failed Discipline: Flawed Paradigms, Methodology, and Epistemology as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Used to Eat a Lot More Without Becoming Obese as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Skeptical Perspective on Quantum Computing (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Charter City Problem: Lessons from Próspera as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No, You Can't Model That as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Journalism is Broken, but so is Alternative Media as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Religion of Science and Its Consequences as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fake History and the Real Gandhi as a story · 1 points
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