I find them either on https://longreads.com/ or in a couple of indie magazines I follow (like for example this one: https://logicmag.io/)
Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
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Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#102Books Seriously. Books are the ultimate long-form content; their authors typically spend years researching and writing them, and you can sample many reviews before committing to read one.
How do you avoid the problem of low signal to noise ratio? Some books in the popular business press can be reduced to several pages, with the core idea, rationale, and examples. Yet they all end up being longer than needed with tons of exposition.
Get it from a pirate site (l--g--, zlib----), survey the sections, and skim a few pages. That'll let you know if it's 90% filler or 90% useful content for you.
One person's useful content is another person's filler. It depends on how familiar or agreeable you already are with the material or advice in the book, and how difficult a read you're willing to tolerate.
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#103In the past few months I spent a lot of time consuming content from these two sources:
- https://fasterthanli.me, already quite popular on HN. Amos articles are often really long and have lot of details, they read like adventures and I love that.
- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing, Old New Thing by Raymond Chen at Microsoft. He’s writing articles since ~20 years and has a lot of really cool anecdotes regarding low level Windows stuff.
I stopped trying to find platforms with long form content, personal blogs is the only thing that works for me (and HN, but that’s an addiction more than anything else :p).
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#104I really prefer interesting blog posts. While I use HN and Twitter and such often to find interesting links, if I find one, and it's part of a blog, I usually take the opportunity to pull it's feed into my RSS reader, since other content on the same site is likely of similar quality.
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#105Books Seriously. Books are the ultimate long-form content; their authors typically spend years researching and writing them, and you can sample many reviews before committing to read one.
How do you avoid the problem of low signal to noise ratio? Some books in the popular business press can be reduced to several pages, with the core idea, rationale, and examples. Yet they all end up being longer than needed with tons of exposition.
Read old books that have stood the test of time.
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#106Books Seriously. Books are the ultimate long-form content; their authors typically spend years researching and writing them, and you can sample many reviews before committing to read one.
How do you avoid the problem of low signal to noise ratio? Some books in the popular business press can be reduced to several pages, with the core idea, rationale, and examples. Yet they all end up being longer than needed with tons of exposition.
I wonder why publishers seem to lean towards 500-pages books. Very complex ideas have been expressed in 10-page articles, spreading probably much smaller amount of information across hundreds of pages does not help.
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for posting this! Seems super dope with a large backlog of articles to dive into!
Same guy (Scott Siskin) wrote slatestarcodex.com, which covers over a hundred writeups of a similar quality, going back to 2013. Lots of great stuff. I recommend checkimg the top posts on that blog, its the best content on the internet imo. I've read almost all of it. He changed to Astralcodexten after the New York Times threatened to Doxx him (for "policy" reasons), which basically upended his entire life, since he…
I didn't know his name until you wrote it here (I specifically abstained from looking it up), so to me you're the part of that NYT doxxing crowd who "upended his entire life".
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#108It's a bit niche but for reading about military history I've really been enjoying https://acoup.blog.
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#109London Review of Books. It’s a print magazine mirrored on its website, but do yourself a favor and leave your phone beyond reach while trying to read long-form. The internet has ruined us all.
LRB is great. I've subscribed for years.
It's more than book reviews, also social and political commentary.
And often the book reviews will be nominally about 3-4 related books, and give really interesting in-depth takes on historical events, social movements, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you avoid the problem of low signal to noise ratio? Some books in the popular business press can be reduced to several pages, with the core idea, rationale, and examples. Yet they all end up being longer than needed with tons of exposition.
Read old books that have stood the test of time.
Agreed, I try to read books that are at least 10 years old.