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Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
Currently read the mainstream things: Stratechery, Wired, Verge, Arstechnica, etc. but looking to diversify my sources in 2024. Any recommendations?
- idlephysicist 3y agoI'm always amazed by the information that can be had in the comments section on this site.
- SushiHippie 3y agoAgreed, many HN posts discussing articles/posts from the aforementioned sites have comments that give more insight than TFA and maybe even corrections. Which you would not get by reading the articles/posts alone.
- idlephysicist 3y agoI frequently find myself spending as much or more time reading the HN comment section than reading the submitted article/link itself.
- paulcole 3y agoAgreed. I put all my effort into commenting and simply don’t read any of the articles/links themselves.
- walterbell 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
- thefourthchime 3y agoThis is great, thank you
- mooreds 3y agoThanks for sharing these links!
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- ClimaxGravely 3y agoI've recently started reading bluesnews again after a 15+ year hiatus. I love how the site seems to be more or less exactly the same. Runs great on all my devices (crazy I have to point that out in modern times). For those that don't know it's primarily a game news site but has some daily rundowns of some various tech news stories so I think it fits the criteria.
- davidchua 3y agoI second bluesnews. It reminds me of a bygone era when news aggregators like bluesnews were all curated by a person/small team and while the content is not exhaustive, it is actually enough.
- dev_0 3y agoCommunications of ACM
- owlninja 3y agoI would love any recommendations for physical magazines. I know they are mostly ads and yada yada, but I like to sit down with an actual magazine for some reason.
- walterbell 3y agoCould old computer magazines be printed on demand? https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE https://archive.org/details/BYTE-MAGAZINE-COMPLETE
- julianeon 3y ago2600. It's worth a subscription for at least one year.
- houseatrielah 3y agoThey still sell them at my local Barnes & Noble
- Joe_early_MD 3y agoyes
- kjellsbells 3y agoI strongly recommend Foreign Affairs magazine (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/). It's full of essays from the serious policy and academic establishment. You might disagree with them heartily, but they are well reasoned and don't hew to any particular political viewpoint (or rather, the magazine has contributions from all sides). About $60 USD per year for six issues plus an app, downloadable articles and audio, and website.
- zacwest 3y ago"Communications of the ACM" (https://cacm.acm.org/ https://cacm.acm.org/) is a great source for a variety of topics. It recently went digital-only and is included in an ACM membership.
- walterbell 3y agohttps://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess > ACM will become fully Open Access by the end of 2025, but we have already begun that process in phases and large parts of the ACM Digital Library are already Open Access today, including the first 50 years of ACM's archive - all articles published between 1951 and 2000 have been placed in front of the ACM Digital Library subscription paywall.
- brushfoot 3y agoIn addition to the answers here, I'd recommend checking with your local library. I recently found out that mine has a subscription to Udemy. They have tech magazines as well. A great resource that can fly under the radar sometimes.
- frankdenbow 3y agoI've been putting out videos from (mostly) bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are outside of the normal tech news cycle in a youtube channel called INFLECTION Community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsO80DSMypJSSDcgdDywgdQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsO80DSMypJSSDcgdDywgdQ
- Brajeshwar 3y agoThis is interesting. Subscribed to the Youtube Channel and also to the Newsletter. Best of luck.
- frankdenbow 3y agoAwesome! Appreciate that. The Teespring story is a good episode of the new podcast coming out in February: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTPTBDQGPSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTPTBDQGPSQ
- jdve 3y agoAsterisk Magazine is refreshing. The physical copies are high quality without any ads. https://asteriskmag.com/ https://asteriskmag.com/
- aurelius 3y agoNone of them. Study Knuth. Study the Intel manuals. Study “The Art of Multiprocessor Programming”. Study compilers. Study TCP/IP. Study algorithms and data structures. Write lots of code for all of those things. Disregard the noise. Ban yourself from reading blogs and magazines and tech news. Focus on what is fundamental to the field. Look where nobody else is looking.
- jwoq9118 3y agoGuys like Sam Altman did exactly not this. They gained breadth in what was specifically relevant to the problem being solved.
- coolandsmartrr 3y ago> Study the Intel manuals. Which Intel manuals in particular? How much relevance remains in Intel's content given the popularity of ARM nowadays?
- rerdavies 3y agoIntel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-sdm.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... Before the internet, Intel used to distribute these manuals in hard-copy for free. One just had to drop by your local Intel sales office to pick up a copy. A good solid foot of shelf-space. These manuals used to be so much easier to read back in the 486/Pentium era. One could almost build a complete mental model of how a 486 worked, and how to manually optimize code to best effect by avoiding processor stalls. Since then, intel processors have accumulated an extraordinary amount of cruft, so it becomes much harder to develop a complete mental model. Compilers have also gotten a lot more clever as well, in order to deal with the added complexity of SIMD instruction sets. For those of us who started with the 8086 Architecture manuals, each generation of processors added additional features which one learned by occasionally revisiting the architecture manuals for new processors. Coming to the Architecture manuals without having the foundation of previous Architecture manuals as a basis must be a daunting task. But I'm sure there's rich material there anyway.
- uptown 3y agoI don’t read it often but when I do, I usually enjoy “MIT Technology Review”.
- jesse__ 3y agoI've found a small number of indie game devlogs to be inspiring in seeing the amount of shit 1 guy can get done
- bttf 3y agoThat sounds awesome. On TIGSource by chance? Care to share any?
- ecliptik 3y agoThe Playdate Dev Forums have some good dev logs [1]. I've been going through the one for Resonant Tale [2] and it's fantastic. 1. https://devforum.play.date/tag/devlog https://devforum.play.date/tag/devlog 2. https://devforum.play.date/t/orkns-pulp-prototypes/4146 https://devforum.play.date/t/orkns-pulp-prototypes/4146
- SSLy 3y agolookk up factorio dev blog
- nop_slide 3y agoPlayer Piano - Kurt Vonnegut Very relevant on this AI age
- wizzerking 3y agoI prefer the moon is a harsh mistress by Heinlein More benevolent AI, less monster AI
- jcrubino 3y agoPaged Out! Institute https://pagedout.institute/ https://pagedout.institute/ # What is Paged Out!? Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics. It's made by the community for the community. And it's not-for-profit (though in time, we hope it will be self-sustained) - this means that the issues will always be free to download, share, and print. > Reminiscent of the vintage original Freaker/Hacker Publications, though clearly devoted to one page technical articles.
- sdsd 3y agoThis is so cool. I wish I could read this right now but it's late so I'll have to dream about it. Happy new year btw, thanks for posting this!
- bolobo 3y agoThat’s a real little gem! I never heard of it before but I love the format and the content, thank you! Any other *zine suggestions ?
- eterps 3y agoNice! I think it deserves a post on its own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830777
- slipperlobster 3y agoWow, this is super cool. Thank you! I love the straight-to-the-point nature of the articles, constraining them to a single page.
- exolymph 3y agohttps://www.thediff.co/ https://www.thediff.co/ like Stratechery meets Money Stuff
- screye 3y agoLike calling a physicist : "Neumann meets Einstein" > Stratechery meets Money Stuff Couldn't imagine more glowing praise for a newsletter. Bookmarked.
- rounakdatta 3y agoThis. Very high-quality writeups. Also, one should read Roots of Progress newsletters - I found the signal:noise ratio extremely high for these two newsletters. The former is more CS x economy. The latter is more Science x history x economy.
- mooreds 3y agoLove this newsletter.
- shicholas 3y agoThis guy is awesome - https://www.twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen https://www.twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen
- nomilk 3y agoSlightly contrarian perspective: I'm trying to read less temporal (things that matter now) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content). This does result in missing ~important things occasionally (e.g. I still don't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI, and yes, I am curious), but that's a small price to pay for greater intellectual sanctity and an increased attention budget to distribute across important tasks or funnel into something hyper focussed.
- tmaly 3y agoMy gut tells me this would also work for news. A lot of evidence to support the opposite of what was reported tends to appear 1-2 years later but that never gets reported on as much as the original story.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoI strongly recommend slogging through both the old and new testaments in that case. Bang for buck, you're not going to find a better lens on western paradigmatics
- dfgert 3y agoI am trying to do this as well, but being surrounded by news/social/stream outlets that just push unnecessary hype its hard to achieve this. Any recommendation on how to filter out the junk?
- firecall 3y agoRead Books, is the answer I think. The entire online news chain is polluted it seems to me. If you have access to a decent Library, I believe the benefits to the individual by using it are: 1) economic, save you money 2) social, you interact with people 3) physical, you are moving around 4) mental health, you are using a different part of your brain and being proactive by planning to engage in new knowledge Then hopefully you can feel positive, optimistic, and look forward to reading the books you just borrowed! Then you reappear the cycle when you return them!
- cushpush 3y agoNextApex -- my eclectic digest (nextapex.co) with a newsletter at nextapex.beehiiv.com -- basically covering science, tech, ai breakthrus in a 3-min rundown. Made a dynamic link sharing site that operates like HN to go along with it and make collation easier.
- asylteltine 3y agoHacker News at most. Otherwise nothing. Improve your skills directly
- ashwinne 3y agohttps://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/
- bluehat974 3y agoI would say Hugging Face Daily curated papers on Machine Learning to follow the trend https://huggingface.co/papers https://huggingface.co/papers
- StepBroBD 3y agoFreethink [0] has some interesting write-ups, their videos are pretty fun to watch too. [0] https://www.freethink.com https://www.freethink.com
- petabyt 3y agoI want to read a ton of stuff on physics and science. The past few weeks I've read about thermodynamics, next I want to read about quantum physics, optics, then math. Any recommendations for a beginner?
- wizzerking 3y agoVarious book sites come to mind that include science as well as programming internet computing rather than get in trouble to advertising their URI, just find a book for sale you want, and google the ISBN-10 ISBN-13 with other criteria like filetype:pdf and use the tools to limit your search to the last year, month etc This website only has free/creative commons and/or older books https://freecomputerbooks.com/ https://freecomputerbooks.com/ This website I use for tech and bio is creative commons https://www.intechopen.com/ https://www.intechopen.com/ And of course for the bleeding edge with or without code all the arxiv pre-print sites.
- ivanmontillam 3y agoI find Dave Plummer's YouTube channel very fascinating ("Dave's Garage"). He explores old day's tech with insider stories, at least if you childhood was Windows-based like me.
- irvingprime 3y agoI apologize for this blatant self promotion but if you want to hear about science and tech news with a strong dose of humor, check out. https://technoscreed.substack.com https://technoscreed.substack.com You might learn something. If you don't laugh, you might be too serious. See a professional.