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The Vault of the Future

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The Vault of the Future is a personal blog at skibinsky.com about startups and culture. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Gödel Incompleteness For Startups”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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15mentions?
10HN people?
2013–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Essays on startups, using ideas such as Gödel's incompleteness, plus pieces on the math of Gödel, Turing and Cantor and on geopolitics. HN readers link them as related reading.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Gödel Incompleteness For Startups
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-01-18
  2. “The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-26
  3. No Russian (2014)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's a 2022 The Atlantic article suggesting the same: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/putin-ukra... And a 2014 blog post also suggesting the same: https://skibinsky.com/no-russian/

    Comment linking /no-russian/

    on “Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4”
  2. Submitted Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math as a story · 132 points

    HN discussion
  3. This article took me to another from the same author ' http://skibinsky.com/godel-incompleteness-for-startups/#foot... and I found the below statement and laughed out aloud. Although in the context, this statement makes sense, in general, I trust books that don't belong to human-related matters (technical etc), because in human-related matters it is mostly one's opinion against others. "As soon as these popular book…

    Comment linking /godel-incompleteness-for-startups/

    on “Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math”
  4. Submitted No Russian as a story · 119 points

    HN discussion
  5. hispanic · 2013-05-07Recommends
    If you enjoyed this, you might want to read this article: Gödel Incompleteness For Startups http://skibinsky.com/godel-incompleteness-for-startups/ Equally thought-provoking with regard to startups and how to approach them.

    Comment linking /godel-incompleteness-for-startups/

    on “Peter Thiel - You are Not a Lottery Ticket [video]”
  6. Submitted Gödel Incompleteness for Startups (2013) as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Godel Incompleteness For Startups as a story · 49 points

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  8. Submitted “The Matrix Resurrections” is an excellent movie as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted No Russian, part 2 as a story · 22 points

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  10. Submitted No Russian (2014) as a story · 15 points

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  11. Submitted Gödel Incompleteness For Startups as a story · 13 points

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  12. Submitted Social Design of P90X as a story · 11 points

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  13. Submitted The New Matrix movie as the “culmination of modern hacker culture” as a story · 5 points

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  14. Submitted Gödel Incompleteness for Startups (2013) as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Godel Incompleteness for Startups as a story · 1 points

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