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Tony Maiorana
Personal blog · polymerist.substack.comeconomicssciencebusiness
Tony Maiorana writes The Polymerist, a personal blog at polymerist.substack.com about economics, science and business. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Burning Out”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Appears only as one bare link in a commenter's list of blogs recommended in a thread asking for better blogs to read. The comments say nothing about its writing or topics.
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.
Commercialization of chemicals and switching from oil and gas to sustainable feedstocks.
Most-linked posts?
- Burning Out2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-28
What Hacker News says?
https://acoup.blog https://www.construction-physics.com https://fs.blog https://metafilter.com https://polymerist.substack.com https://ribbonfarm.com https://science.org/blogs/pipeline https://what-if.xkcd.com
Comment linking /
on “Please help me find better blogs to read”Submitted Burning Out as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oil Companies Placing Big Bets on Pyrolysis Oil as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Compostable Plastics Compost? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing the Origins of Our Economy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When your job description cannot be “remote optional.” (The Polymerist) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Origins of Stuff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Standing on the Shoulders of Giants as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safer Lithium Ion Batteries with New Separators as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Burning Out as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Wind Turbines Sustainable Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old King Coal–The Polymerist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virus Killing Polymers as a story · 1 points
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