Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing to?

A small shameless plug: for the past 5 years I’ve been working on a robotics newsletter that I hope some could find interesting: https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/

throwaw122y ago

off topic, how do you find time to follow and read all those newsletters?

I tried to follow couple of them, after a while it felt like everyday I am reading some newsletter. At this moment I completely stopped, because messed up my time management skills after having kids. Need to recover

pixelpoet2y ago

Easy, you answered your own question: just have no kids.

jbc12y ago

They all get filtered straight in to a folder. No notification when they arrive.

Then I just go through it every couple weeks either when im waiting around on my phone or when I find myself wasting time on reddit or hn but dont quite have it in my to jump back in to dev work just yet.

Between topics not being interesting to me, overlap in covered topics by each newsletter, and overlap with things I've already seen here; the vast majority of content that hits that folder doesn't ever actually get read. I'm yet to find any source of news, tech newsletter or otherwise, that warrants reading on a daily basis. Closest would be the weather.

_shadi2y ago

I add them to inoreader, whenever I'm on a bus, can't sleep or have 5-10 minutes of free time I open inoreader and read instead of mindless scrolling, some of the articles are out of date by the time I get to them, but all in all it is more satisfying way to kill free time instead of reading comments.

in addition to tech you can also add long form journalism from authors/magazines you trust, usually these things tend to be more analytical and not related to the current thing/hype.

aprdm2y ago

They stay in my inbox, whenever I have time I read one and archive.. I do not read them often.

I have also unsubscribed to a bunch as they have too much for me to casually consume. Pragmatic engineer one is great that it has a single topic and goes deep into it. Level up one is great as it has some great insight in the introduction and then it's more of a pointers to articles that I might click or not.

Axsuul2y ago

You can also convert them to RSS feeds and read them whenever.

0xEF2y ago

Honest question; do people actually go back and read the stuff the intended to read later? I have never been successful with that strategy, and have to bookmark folders to prove it.

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sunshinerag2y ago

The kids?

techsupporter2y ago

In case anyone is interested, we had a similar thread three weeks ago:

"Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356476

("Substacks" was quickly turned into synonym for "newsletter".)

decryption2y ago

I've been publishing The Sizzle - a general tech newsletter that comes out daily and has an Aussie take on the last 24 hours of news - for almost 8 years. 1,300 people pay me A$60/yr to read it. There's a 30 day free trial (no credit card needed, unsubscribe any time via a one click link in every email) at https://thesizzle.com.au

moebius2y ago

The Sizzle is great! Concise, smart, sweary. If you're after a brief Australian-based tech news daily summary, this is the one.

benno1282y ago

Big fan of the sizzle. Its nice to get a real persons quick short take of the tech news, rather than having to read every long winded press release rewritten as news - or worse - drinking from the firehose on twitter.

danielheath2y ago

Thanks! I find the summary helps me avoid mindlessly scrolling news sites (since I'm going to get the interesting bits sent to me anyways).

flir2y ago

https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ might be a useful adjunct to this post.

quercusa2y ago

https://postgresweekly.com/

johnchristopher2y ago

All of them and reading none. What I am subscribing to/buying is the idea that I'll read them.

tiffanyh2y ago

Highly recommend Benedict Evans.

https://www.ben-evans.com

I actually unsubscribed from Stratechery, and replaced it with Benefict Evans since I find it more insightful (and less wordy / more to the point).

imartin2k2y ago

Yep Ben Evans’ newsletter is great. If one only would want to subscribe to one single weekly newsletter about the tech industry, I’d recommend that one.

WithinReason2y ago

Graphics Programming Weekly:

https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-week...

eatonphil2y ago

Now that The Morning Paper is shut down :( the only technical newsletter I follow these days is Micah Lerner's Systems Papers.

https://newsletter.micahlerner.com/

https://blog.acolyer.org/

bitcoinmoney2y ago

Why did it shut down?

eatonphil2y ago

They explain in the most recent/top post on the site.

uneekname2y ago

This week in GNOME

https://thisweek.gnome.org/

codetrotter2y ago

“This week” train!

I’ll go next

This week in Rust

https://this-week-in-rust.org/

KANahas2y ago

The Embedded Muse (by Jack Ganssle), twice(ish) monthly updates on Embedded Electronics parts, tooling, firmware, etc. Almost every topic you’d be into if you were trying to make or join an electronics startup.

http://www.ganssle.com/tem-back.htm

dutchbrit2y ago

https://www.phpweekly.com/

dylanlacom2y ago

I’ve been enjoying the ByteByteGo newsletter. The content is often very abbreviated, but the breadth of topics touched on keeps it interesting. I always learn a little bit about something new.

https://blog.bytebytego.com/

jamestimmins2y ago

Haven't read the newsletter, but really enjoy the System Design Interview book by Alex, who writes ByteByteGo.

jerodsanto2y ago

If you haven't yet, please check out Changelog News which I ship out every Monday! It's a newsletter + podcast combo.

People seem to like it: https://changelog.com/news

dcminter2y ago

• https://this-week-in-rust.org/

• https://www.swedishtechweekly.com/

And then it's not exactly tech, but Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" :

• https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff

adubois12y ago

I can recommend:

https://blog.bytebytego.com/

https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/

https://www.oreilly.com/emails/newsletters/

https://ardalis.com/tips

andremendes2y ago

I like Hillel Wayne newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/

adamgordonbell2y ago

I've found a lot of great books via https://hackernewsbooks.com/

I'll also recommend my own monthly newsletter:

https://newsletter.corecursive.com/profile

My last piece was about my struggles to get coding tasks past that last 10% done. And how part of its being distracted by social media and part is that the stakes are low.

firebirdn992y ago

The Diff by Bryne Hobart https://www.thediff.co/ is a finance one I enjoyed in the past

smartties2y ago

Weekly graphics programming articles https://www.jendrikillner.com/#posts

Alifatisk2y ago

Ruby weekly https://discu.eu/weekly/ruby

greg.molnar https://greg.molnar.io/blog/

Lucian Ghinda (from ShortRuby) https://substack.com/profile/138511374-lucian-ghinda-from-sh...

gremlinsinc2y ago

Self plug, I run these two: https://curl.beehiiv.com | AI News https://aiworkflows.beehiiv.com | AI Automation Tips, specifically AI Automation Agencies.

I also subscribe to bensbites (AI), ai supremacy, laravel news, freek.dev, stratechery, and a few more A.I. ones and marketing automation ones.

dewey2y ago

- https://www.pgmustard.com/newsletter (For Postgres news)

abhi9u2y ago

I started one newsletter/blog couple of months back. I write blog style posts where I write detailed articles on technical topics for example explaining the AlphaDev results from DeepMind. And I also write a links digest style post every week as well where I share some interesting articles and resources every week.

https://codeconfessions.substack.com

teddyh2y ago

Risks Digest: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

pixelpoet2y ago

Chips and cheese (in depth hardware analysis)

Asianometry (just go subscribe, it's brilliant)

and as others mentioned, the graphics programming newsletter

paologiacometti2y ago

My 2 cents

Quanta Magazine maths and computer science https://www.quantamagazine.org/

Linas Beliūnas from Linas's Newsletter https://linas.substack.com/

snapzone2y ago

https://www.workwant.com/t/Resources https://www.workwant.com/t/tools

firebirdn992y ago

prev ask HN on blogs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

[edit: this didn't exactly answer the question, but related for seekers of technical blogs. Below however is my answer:

Ones I'm subscribed to are the "weekly" blogs of languages I use or am interested in such as -Javascript Weekly - https://javascriptweekly.com/ -Android Weekly - https://androidweekly.net/ -iOS Weekly - https://iosdevweekly.com/issues/617?#start -PHP Weekly - https://www.phpweekly.com/ -Pycoder's weekly - https://pycoders.com/

Some substacks (had more, though lots stopped their posts. I remb 2021 was an explosion of substacks.) -https://www.construction-physics.com/ - https://console.substack.com/ - https://www.chinatalk.media/ - https://micromobility.substack.com/ A couple others- https://alexandbooks.beehiiv.com/subscribe?ref=lvsmF8aNAF https://onepercentamonth.com/ ]

firebirdn992y ago

https://dm.hn, https://blogs.hn

shermix0112y ago

Off the mind, the newsletters I subscribe to: Console dev, Bytes, Changelog News, Hackernewsletter, Matt Rickard, Ben Evans, Stratechery, Unzip dev, Browsertech, Command Line, This Week at YC. All of this takes 2-3 hours reading weekly which I catchup on a Sunday night with no Read Laters.

mz002y ago

(Shameless plug) I recently started my own newsletter to help a non-technical audience understand the big picture trends driving AI and AGI: https://newsletter.envisioning.io

ezedv2y ago

I'm currently subscribed to a few tech newsletters that provide valuable insights and updates. Some of my favorites include TechCrunch, The Verge, and Wired. They cover a wide range of topics and keep me informed about the latest tech trends and news.

rchaudhary2y ago

Shameless plug

https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://www.programmerweekly.com/

orobinson2y ago

https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/

I’ve found this one very useful as a Data Engineer. Worth subscribing if you’re working in the data space.

slorber2y ago

React dev?

Try https://ThisWeekInReact.com (disclaimer, I'm the author)

I also enjoy Bytes, JavaScriptWeekly, NextJS Weekly, ESNext News, Web Weekly and many others

baxtr2y ago

The questions is: what are you looking for?

- General tech news?

- Career tips/tricks for devs?

- Deep dives on functional topics?

Alifatisk2y ago

I am looking for eveything regarding Ruby

praveen99202y ago

Not a news letter but I checkout technology radar by Thoughtworks

https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/radar

Paul-Craft2y ago

Since everything I subscribe to has already been named, I'll ask a question: anyone got any blogs/newsletters/etc. geared toward LISPy topics that they can recommend?

cpach2y ago

Cryptography Dispatches by Filippo Valsorda.

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/

mrlagmer2y ago

The best Aussie one is https://thesizzle.com.au/

Best paid newsletter to keep on top of tech news.

decryption2y ago

Thanks for the mention!

anonu2y ago

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/

Axsuul2y ago

Anyone have one for latest tips/tricks with ChatGPT?

iamflimflam12y ago

https://makernews.substack.com/

disclaimer - I help to edit this.

pineconewarrior2y ago

https://sidebar.io/

Mostly for front-end web but its quite useful.

ochronus2y ago

https://newsletter.leadership.garden

nnain2y ago

Django News https://django-news.com/

abahlo2y ago

Shameless plug: https://arne.me/weekly

valevk2y ago

https://www.datadrivenvc.io/

jc_8112y ago

https://www.runtime.news/

ricklamers2y ago

https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/

https://www.latent.space/

https://tldr.tech/

https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://codingwithintelligence.com/ (my own ^^)

jrvarela562y ago

https://sqlfordevs.com/

aprdm2y ago

pragmatic engineer and levelup from Pat are the ones I read the most. The first one I'm not paying for, as I don't have the bandwidth to consume more than the free edition as it stands. I probably read one article per month from both of them, I prefer Pat's and maybe is a bit more unknown.

peterstensmyr2y ago

Just brandur’s one. It’s good. Not very frequent. brandur.org somewhere.

mdwalters2y ago

mainly hacker newsletter and morning brew, if that counts

mindwork2y ago

- https://golangweekly.com/

- https://blog.bytebytego.com/

- Inside Tech

- TLDR Web Dev

A mix of news and tech articles

p0d2y ago

Rest of the World

epirogov2y ago

scmp,forbes

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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no_wizard2y ago

Huge fan of Pragmatic Engineer as well.

I also subscribe to:

- Hardcore Software[0]

- ByeByteGo[1]

- JavaScript Weekly[2]

- Bytes[3]

[0]: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/

[1]: https://blog.bytebytego.com/

[2]: https://javascriptweekly.com/

[3]: https://bytes.dev/

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msadowski2y ago

A small shameless plug: for the past 5 years I’ve been working on a robotics newsletter that I hope some could find interesting: https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/

throwaw122y ago

off topic, how do you find time to follow and read all those newsletters?

pixelpoet2y ago

Easy, you answered your own question: just have no kids.

jbc12y ago

They all get filtered straight in to a folder. No notification when they arrive.

_shadi2y ago

in addition to tech you can also add long form journalism from authors/magazines you trust, usually these things tend to be more analytical and not related to the current thing/hype.

aprdm2y ago

They stay in my inbox, whenever I have time I read one and archive.. I do not read them often.

Axsuul2y ago

You can also convert them to RSS feeds and read them whenever.

0xEF2y ago

Honest question; do people actually go back and read the stuff the intended to read later? I have never been successful with that strategy, and have to bookmark folders to prove it.

2 more replies

sunshinerag2y ago

The kids?

techsupporter2y ago

In case anyone is interested, we had a similar thread three weeks ago:

"Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356476

("Substacks" was quickly turned into synonym for "newsletter".)

decryption2y ago

moebius2y ago

The Sizzle is great! Concise, smart, sweary. If you're after a brief Australian-based tech news daily summary, this is the one.

benno1282y ago

danielheath2y ago

Thanks! I find the summary helps me avoid mindlessly scrolling news sites (since I'm going to get the interesting bits sent to me anyways).

flir2y ago

https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ might be a useful adjunct to this post.

quercusa2y ago

https://postgresweekly.com/

johnchristopher2y ago

All of them and reading none. What I am subscribing to/buying is the idea that I'll read them.

tiffanyh2y ago

Highly recommend Benedict Evans.

https://www.ben-evans.com

I actually unsubscribed from Stratechery, and replaced it with Benefict Evans since I find it more insightful (and less wordy / more to the point).

imartin2k2y ago

Yep Ben Evans’ newsletter is great. If one only would want to subscribe to one single weekly newsletter about the tech industry, I’d recommend that one.

WithinReason2y ago

Graphics Programming Weekly:

https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-week...

eatonphil2y ago

Now that The Morning Paper is shut down :( the only technical newsletter I follow these days is Micah Lerner's Systems Papers.

https://newsletter.micahlerner.com/

https://blog.acolyer.org/

bitcoinmoney2y ago

Why did it shut down?

eatonphil2y ago

They explain in the most recent/top post on the site.

uneekname2y ago

This week in GNOME

https://thisweek.gnome.org/

codetrotter2y ago

“This week” train!

I’ll go next

This week in Rust

https://this-week-in-rust.org/

KANahas2y ago

http://www.ganssle.com/tem-back.htm

dutchbrit2y ago

https://www.phpweekly.com/

dylanlacom2y ago

I’ve been enjoying the ByteByteGo newsletter. The content is often very abbreviated, but the breadth of topics touched on keeps it interesting. I always learn a little bit about something new.

https://blog.bytebytego.com/

jamestimmins2y ago

Haven't read the newsletter, but really enjoy the System Design Interview book by Alex, who writes ByteByteGo.

jerodsanto2y ago

If you haven't yet, please check out Changelog News which I ship out every Monday! It's a newsletter + podcast combo.

People seem to like it: https://changelog.com/news

dcminter2y ago

• https://this-week-in-rust.org/

• https://www.swedishtechweekly.com/

And then it's not exactly tech, but Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" :

• https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff

adubois12y ago

I can recommend:

https://blog.bytebytego.com/

https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/

https://www.oreilly.com/emails/newsletters/

https://ardalis.com/tips

andremendes2y ago

I like Hillel Wayne newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/

adamgordonbell2y ago

I've found a lot of great books via https://hackernewsbooks.com/

I'll also recommend my own monthly newsletter:

https://newsletter.corecursive.com/profile

My last piece was about my struggles to get coding tasks past that last 10% done. And how part of its being distracted by social media and part is that the stakes are low.

firebirdn992y ago

The Diff by Bryne Hobart https://www.thediff.co/ is a finance one I enjoyed in the past

smartties2y ago

Weekly graphics programming articles https://www.jendrikillner.com/#posts

Alifatisk2y ago

Ruby weekly https://discu.eu/weekly/ruby

greg.molnar https://greg.molnar.io/blog/

Lucian Ghinda (from ShortRuby) https://substack.com/profile/138511374-lucian-ghinda-from-sh...

gremlinsinc2y ago

Self plug, I run these two: https://curl.beehiiv.com | AI News https://aiworkflows.beehiiv.com | AI Automation Tips, specifically AI Automation Agencies.

I also subscribe to bensbites (AI), ai supremacy, laravel news, freek.dev, stratechery, and a few more A.I. ones and marketing automation ones.

dewey2y ago

- https://www.pgmustard.com/newsletter (For Postgres news)

abhi9u2y ago

https://codeconfessions.substack.com

teddyh2y ago

Risks Digest: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

pixelpoet2y ago

Chips and cheese (in depth hardware analysis)

Asianometry (just go subscribe, it's brilliant)

and as others mentioned, the graphics programming newsletter

paologiacometti2y ago

My 2 cents

Quanta Magazine maths and computer science https://www.quantamagazine.org/

Linas Beliūnas from Linas's Newsletter https://linas.substack.com/

snapzone2y ago

https://www.workwant.com/t/Resources https://www.workwant.com/t/tools

firebirdn992y ago

prev ask HN on blogs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

[edit: this didn't exactly answer the question, but related for seekers of technical blogs. Below however is my answer:

firebirdn992y ago

https://dm.hn, https://blogs.hn

shermix0112y ago

mz002y ago

(Shameless plug) I recently started my own newsletter to help a non-technical audience understand the big picture trends driving AI and AGI: https://newsletter.envisioning.io

ezedv2y ago

rchaudhary2y ago

Shameless plug

https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://www.programmerweekly.com/

orobinson2y ago

https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/

I’ve found this one very useful as a Data Engineer. Worth subscribing if you’re working in the data space.

slorber2y ago

React dev?

Try https://ThisWeekInReact.com (disclaimer, I'm the author)

I also enjoy Bytes, JavaScriptWeekly, NextJS Weekly, ESNext News, Web Weekly and many others

baxtr2y ago

The questions is: what are you looking for?

- General tech news?

- Career tips/tricks for devs?

- Deep dives on functional topics?

Alifatisk2y ago

I am looking for eveything regarding Ruby

praveen99202y ago

Not a news letter but I checkout technology radar by Thoughtworks

https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/radar

Paul-Craft2y ago

Since everything I subscribe to has already been named, I'll ask a question: anyone got any blogs/newsletters/etc. geared toward LISPy topics that they can recommend?

cpach2y ago

Cryptography Dispatches by Filippo Valsorda.

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/

mrlagmer2y ago

The best Aussie one is https://thesizzle.com.au/

Best paid newsletter to keep on top of tech news.

decryption2y ago

Thanks for the mention!

anonu2y ago

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/

Axsuul2y ago

Anyone have one for latest tips/tricks with ChatGPT?