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Tina He
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Tina He writes Fakepixels, a personal blog at fakepixels.substack.com about ai, philosophy and economics. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Context is all you need”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked Tina He post is about the "building" spectacle in tech and how venture capital in China interacts with the state, including its bubbles and big, visible physical projects.
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.
Fakepixels is a newsletter that explores alternative perspectives of understanding frontier technology, markets, and our own minds.
Most-linked posts?
- Context is all you need3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-01
- Pre, Mid, Post-Training Way of Life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-26
- Embedded Education2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-28
- Twenty-five percent without thinking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-25
- The Spectacle of "Building"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-07
- Jevons Paradox: A Personal Perspective2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-28
What Hacker News says?
That's fascinating. It's a view of venture capital within China's system. It still has bubbles, but different types of bubbles. The interaction between the state and VCs is totally different than in the US. There's the old centrally planned economy preference for big projects with high visibility in the physical world. Somehow, this seems to have met up with venture capital and financial bubbles to produce the "buil…
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