[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to s...
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Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?
I am interested in genuinely interesting lists covering any and all
topics, be it post-quantum cryptography or vegan cooking. Please
include at least a brief description alongside your suggested
lists.
Author : jakobdabo
Score : 34 points
Date : 2022-10-02 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
| jen729w wrote:
| Sentiers.
|
| "Understand the world, imagine better futures
|
| Each issue features a carefully curated selection of articles
| with thoughtful commentary on technology, society, culture, and
| potential futures."
|
| https://sentiers.media/
| elpakal wrote:
| I like the Daily Dad - to the point, fun and helpful. I grew up
| without a father and every little bit helps with 2 young kids
| during these times.
| alexwasserman wrote:
| I use Feedly / NetNewsFire for feeds, rather than newsletters,
| but in reality they're the same, just different consumption
| methods. Just interesting to see NNW was in HN recently. These
| are the most interesting things I keep in Feedly.
|
| acoup.blog - A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - frequently
| linked to HN already. He's a great history writer, covering
| everything from Roman logistics, to analysis of current games and
| movies - eg. LotR battles.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC364qOwWXAzgRruHhhFMhVg - Croker
| vs Rover. A New Zealand guy restoring a 70s Land Rover. It's a
| Youtube channel, but both hilarious and informative. Infrequent
| too, so easy to cruise through at leisure.
|
| Atlas Obscura - https://www.atlasobscura.com/ - interesting
| history/geography mix.
|
| https://www.numberphile.com/ - Mathy easy-access but complex
| topics - mostly videos on Youtube. Very accessible, but
| interesting for a mostly non-math person to see real math at
| work.
|
| https://waynehale.wordpress.com/ - Wayne Hale - NASA flight
| controller. Interesting views and analysis of current space /
| incident management topics vs how it was done for the shuttle,
| along with some other commentary. Infrequent and interesting.
|
| https://computer.rip/ - Deeply geekly telco / 50s-70s computer
| history with some cold-war fun. Pretty in-depth, and a fun read.
|
| https://www.cringely.com/ - Cringley - weekly-monthly tech posts
| on bigger tech strategy with an Appleish focus. He's been around
| SV for years. Was early at Apple then made documentaries, was a
| journalist, and blogged for years,
|
| https://mondaynote.com/ - Jean-Louie Gassee's monday musings on
| tech, mostly Apple. Originally Apple, then founded Be, then
| chairman of Palm. Been around the block in tech.
|
| https://www.techdirt.com/ - legal analysis in a similar style to
| Matt Levine (who's also a must-read for finance). Funny and
| informative.
|
| https://usesthis.com/ - The setup - weekly post on someone's tech
| setup and tools they use. "Uses This is a collection of nerdy
| interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to
| get the job done."
|
| Matt Levine - Bloomberg Money Stuff - already mentioned, but here
| as a second vote for him. Hilarious financial industry
| commentary.
|
| https://monitoring.love/ - weekly tech newsletter with a focus on
| Monitoring/SRE type topics. Also a good Slack server if you like
| SRE/Monitoring stuff
|
| BOFH - https://www.theregister.com/Author/Simon-Travaglia - the
| original author's currently (and for the last 20 years or so),
| been on The Register. Not as good as it once was, but funny, and
| worth the weeklyish read.
| systemvoltage wrote:
| Excellent: https://stratechery.com/
| mfincham wrote:
| The classic metzdowd cryptography list is generally good reading:
| https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
|
| Another good fly-on-the-wall place to see what's going on in a
| specific tech niche is the dns-oarc operations list:
| https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
| MattPalmer1086 wrote:
| Seconded for Metzdowd, often very interesting.
| glawre wrote:
| Matt Levine's Money Stuff:
| https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
| nanomonkey wrote:
| The Orbital Index [https://orbitalindex.com] for space related
| stuff.
|
| The Prepared [https://theprepared.org/] for engineering
| discussions.
|
| The Convivial Society [https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com]
| for discussions about technology and societies intersections, and
| the good life, with a focus on the works of Ivan Illich.
| the_jesus_villa wrote:
| Full Point is fun and random: https://fullpoint.substack.com/
| SteveMorin wrote:
| https://productivegrowth.substack.com/
|
| For productivity, personal growth and process building. Basically
| all things to help make you 1% better every day and a few things
| about management
|
| https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/
|
| For all things product management
| dewey wrote:
| Are you asking about newsletters or mailing lists? It seems that
| most people are posting their favorite newsletters.
|
| Newsletter: 1 to many
|
| Mailing list: many to many
| jakobdabo wrote:
| I was asking about mailing lists, but even so, people who are
| posting interesting newsletters are also very welcome.
|
| BTW, thank you everyone who posted (or is going to post) an
| answer. There are many great suggestions!
| alexwasserman wrote:
| I know you asked specifically about mailing lists, then most
| answers, including mine below, are more newsletters, but if
| you want a mailing-list type feel, there are also Patreon,
| Reddit, individual blogs, and other communities that
| communicate in much the same way and have the same sort of
| interesting mailing-list feel, with similar volumes. Not sure
| how much you'd considered those, but a lot of the Reddits I'm
| in would have been mailing lists/usenet topics pre-Reddit,
|
| Even some public Slack and Discord servers have the same
| mailing-list feel. eg. I'm in the monitoring.love Slack with
| a monitoring/SRE focus, and the r9y.dev Discord which is
| Reliability/SRE/Monitoring focused, and both have the same
| mailing list type feel.
| abnercoimbre wrote:
| Consider the Handmade conference newsletter [0]. We're an
| indie conference focused on low-level programming (nuts and
| bolts kind of thing) and we occasionally send interesting
| emails on these topics. Of course we also announce ticket
| sales and all that, but sparingly :)
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| [0] https://handmade-seattle.com/newsletter
| ottimis wrote:
| https://magur.news/ - weekly links on noteworthy design, and
| development news and products
| mooreds wrote:
| Anything from the IETF is going to be educational for the
| relevant tech topic: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/
|
| I like Peter Zeihan's list for geopolitics:
| https://zeihan.com/newsletter/
|
| The Diff is good for a broad swathe of tech/finance topics:
| https://www.thediff.co/
|
| I enjoy Bits About Money, from Patio11:
| https://bam.kalzumeus.com/ (though the essays usually make their
| way to HN).
| bspear wrote:
| harel wrote:
| I'm quite enjoying 8Bit News, which deliver articles about...
| 8Bit retro computing: https://8bitnews.io
| cactuscooler wrote:
| I sub to a lot of web3 and crypto ones, but my favorites are:
|
| For DeFi + general crypto knowledge that's up to date:
| https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/
|
| For learning about blockchain tech and trends in web3:
| https://toolsforcrypto.substack.com/
| tracker2020 wrote:
| idrios wrote:
| ByteByteGo https://blog.bytebytego.com/
|
| A ton of explanations of various software design patterns,
| architectures, deep explanations of things a lot of developers
| will only understand at a higher level like HTTPS, proxies, SQL,
| how live streaming works, how credit card payments work. It's a
| fountain of knowledge.
| pamoroso wrote:
| Here's the list of the tech and creator newsletters I subscribe
| to, I recommend all of them (each entry has a short description):
| https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-favorite-tech-and-creato...
| dfc wrote:
| NANOG North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) a mailing
| list for discussion of large scale network operations. There are
| other regional lists that may be more appropriate for people
| (APOPS, AfNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, SAFNOG TZNOG, MENOG, BJNOG, SDNOG,
| CMNOG, LACNOG)
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| https://archive.nanog.org/list/archives
|
| TZdb -- Time Zone database list: "discusses proposals for updates
| to the Time Zone Database and associated code (Internet RFC
| 6557). Common topics include news of changes to daylight saving
| time rules or to time zone boundaries."
|
| It sounds kind of dry but it's an interesting combination of
| technical and social problem solving.
|
| https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz
| imakwana wrote:
| Gergely Orosz's Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter for all aspects
| related to Tech career: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/
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