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Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

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Re: Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

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Money Stuff by Matt Levine. Highlight of my morning for over a year now. It's targeted at the finance industry but it's accessible to outsiders and has taught me a lot about how the economy actually works. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff

I agree! It is really entertaining and resourceful. Read it daily

Re: Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

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The Browser! https://thebrowser.com. I frequently see its recommendations percolating through to the front page of HN. 5 hand-picked articles a day drawn from every corner of the internet, covering philosophy, literature, technology and other things, linked, pithily summarised and available as email newsletter, RSS feed, or full-text Instapaper/Pocket auto-push.

Paid service ($34/year), but a month's free trial is available: https://thebrowser.com/try-the-browser

Disclaimer: I am associated with The Browser, but my affection for it transcends my professional interest :)

Re: Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

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post #93
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I used to consume most of my stuff through RSS but RSS seems largely dead unfortunately. Why do you say this? I start my day with my RSS reader and the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.

> the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN. I am not sure what you mean by "really" but there is https://news.ycombinator.com/rss However, its quite rudimentary (maybe that's what you're getting at?)

Yeah, the structure of the site isn't really conducive to RSS, while a site like the NYT or a friend's blog, with regular structured posts, is.

Re: Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

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post #5

A mix of everything - HN Digest - http://hndigest.com/ - Hacker News Books - http://hackernewsbooks.com/ - Julie Zhuo's The Looking Glass - http://www.juliezhuo.com/design/mailinglist.html - a16z monthly newsletter - http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=35c671b34bb40414916... - Pointer.io - http://www.pointer.io - Changelog Weekly - https://changelog.com/weekly - Dan Bader's python tricks - https://dbader.org/ -…

Hey, Dan Bader here. I just wanted to say thanks for including my Python Tricks (https://dbader.org/python-tricks) series in your list, that's awesome :-)

Re: Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

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post #59
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to consume most of my stuff through RSS but RSS seems largely dead unfortunately. It provides me with a nice balance between tracking (lots of) things but being able to pull that in when needed and keep it separate from other mediums like email. Subscribing to mailing lists usually ends up to me adding filters that move them to a different folder that I check less. So for me, I subscribe to 3 or so newsletters…

> I used to consume most of my stuff through RSS but RSS seems largely dead unfortunately. Why do you say this? I start my day with my RSS reader and the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.

> Why do you say this?

Because that has been my experience?

> I start my day with my RSS reader and the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.

Awesome, happy for you. I wish that was the case here. For most of my news sources (which aren't tech) no RSS feed exists. Same for a number of newsletters I'm interested in. They exist in plain HTML format but there's no RSS feed to speak of, not even of the archive.

However, I've recently ran into RSS-Bridge[1] which I'm hoping means that I'll be able to generate RSS feeds out of some stuff and get back to consuming most of my information that way.

[1]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

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