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Sam Harris
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Sam Harris's personal blog at samharris.substack.com covers politics and philosophy. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Trouble with Elon”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Sam Harris's Substack posts, linked in HN threads about Elon Musk and in a quoted line on Democrats and trans issues. Cited as sources, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.
Most-linked posts?
- The Trouble with Elon5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-01-15
What Hacker News says?
Extremist positions on trans issues. To quote Sam Harris: "Congratulations, Democrats. You have found the most annoying thing in the fucking galaxy and hung it around your necks."[1] [1] https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-reckoning
Comment linking /p/the-reckoning
on “I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks”Submitted The Trouble with Elon as a story · 89 points
HN discussionYou can list lots of people who haven't suffered his wrath. But that's not evidence, that's lack of evidence. I can provide you with someone who does have his phone number and does know him and says something quite different[1]. There's a litany of examples of Musk deliberately endangering people he's decided to go to war with - whether that's spurious accusations of pedophilia or forcing a former employee to go int…
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on “Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"”Submitted Islam, Israel, and the Tragedy of Gaza as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSpeaking of COVID. There is a weird story about Musk betting $1 million dollars on low death cases of COVID against his former friend Sam Harris. After Elon was spectacularly wrong he just canceled the friendship. Also forgot to pay the $1 million dollars. https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon
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on “Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble”Submitted We Are Losing the Information War with Ourselves as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSam Harris has shared some similar thoughts about Musk: https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon And here's an account of a woman who visited Auschwitz with him: > I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, wa…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted Sam Harris: The Trouble with Elon as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Survive AI? A Conversation with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moral Confusion About the War in Iran as a story · 1 points
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