Adrian Elkus
aelkus.github.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Adrian Elkus writes essays on strategy, technology, and social science, covering topics like crisis narratives, solutionism, and military thinking.
What HN saysHN commenters mention it mainly for its site design, which one person liked enough to look up the design sources; it also appears in a list of recommended blogs.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The “Omni-Crisis”3 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 2OK Doomer2 people · 327 points · first shared 2020 · 233 comments on HN
- 3The Hierarchy of Cringe2 people · 206 points · first shared 2019 · 92 comments on HN
- 4Three Cheers for Solutionism?2 people · 45 points · first shared 2020 · 33 comments on HN
- 5The Fish Rots from the Head2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6Lift Up the Receiver, I'LL Make You a Believer2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 7Military strategy, computational intelligence, and social science2 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8The Manhattan Project Fallacy1 people · 159 points · first shared 2016 · 119 comments on HN
- 9Twitter Drops the Big One1 people · 37 points · first shared 2020 · 20 comments on HN
- 10Save Room Loop Part I – Recovering Save Rooms1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 11The Linux Adventure1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
- 12The Hierarchy of Cringe1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 13Ten Angry Robots, or Moderation and Its Discontents1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Entering Pandemonium1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Coronavirus: It Only Wants Targets1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
DyslexicAtheist · 2020-02-08
I really love Jesse Frazelle's[1] blog. She posts things about low-level (firmware/open-hardware/system) security. Her work is already well known here on HN[2].
A few more of my fav:
The grugq (NatSec, Tradecraft, OpSec): https://gru.gq/
Pinboard (aka Maciej Cegłowski): https://idlewords.com/
Adam Aelkus: https://aelkus.github.io/
Bert Hubert: https://berthub.eu/
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[1] https://blog.jessfraz.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jessfraz.com
dashwav · 2019-11-20
Man I absolutely love this theme he is using. Took a while to find the post but here is the info on the current design. https://aelkus.github.io/site/2019/09/10/design-sources
Honestly the design is so nice it makes me want to get around to finishing setting up a blog