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Xebia
Company blog · xebia.com/blogaiprogrammingsecurity
Xebia is the company blog at xebia.com, writing about ai, programming and security. Since 2018, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a counterpoint to the sunk cost fallacy. The post argues that the 'sunk cost fallacy fallacy' is a view that some behaviour called sunk cost fallacy can be justified once switching and other costs are counted.
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.
Xebia is a global, award-winning AI-first consulting, software engineering, and training company, turning AI strategy into real-world business transformation.
What Hacker News says?
See also; the sunk-cost-fallacy fallacy. Naaive accounting based only on financial costs, excluding switching costs, other complementary investments, psychological costs, unbooked benefits, etc., may justify at least dome behaviours typically branded as SCF. https://xebia.com/blog/sunk-cost-fallacy-fallacy/ https://modleft.blogspot.com/2005/09/sunk-cost-fallacy-falla... https://econundead.com/2015/09/20/the-sunk-cos…
Comment linking /blog/sunk-cost-fallacy-fallacy/
on “The sunk cost fallacy”Submitted EventStorming: Continuous discovery beyond software modelling as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (2006) as a story · 20 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Event Handling in AWS Using Terraform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualise Coupling Between Contexts in Big Picture EventStorming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Automation Testing Tools Series: Cypress vs. TestCafé as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Skeptic to AI Pragmatist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Trends in 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Prepared for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Exam as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CertShout: Leaking sensitive host information from certificates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build and secure containers to support your CI/CD pipeline as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crossing the bounded context, events-first, the REST is not needed as a story · 1 points
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