Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by johannesha » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:03 PM UTC

My favourite ones (mainly tech or bio related):

- https://www.gwern.net/index

- https://guzey.com/

- https://nintil.com/

- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

- https://waitbutwhy.com/

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by alpaca128 » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:08 PM UTC

ark__n wrote: post #117

Aside: how do you go about writing these blogs? As a new grad in CompSci, looking at all of the great details these blogs touch upon, is overwhelming

I guess people mainly write what they're passionate about, and for the same reason they know a lot about those topics because they already spent a lot of time thinking about it.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by davidkunz » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

dividuum wrote: post #140

davidkunz wrote: post #53

https://blog.fefe.de/ (in German, about software security, politics etc.) I like the design a lot.

Can confirm. It's basically what https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ suggest and actually provides entertaining content/rants.

Exactly. People usually try to optimize for "first impressions". However, if you visit a site regularly, you're _only_ interested in the content, everything else is unnecessary, bloated noise.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by Slitted » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

cavalcade119 wrote: post #137

Self-promotion: I run Thinking About Things [0], a simple newsletter that is a single link every other day to something interesting. Many subscribers have told me they've learned about a diversity of new blogs through the newsletter. You can see some sample articles at [1]. [0] thinking-about-things.com [1] mix.com/thinkingaboutthings

Is there an RSS feed somewhere, or possible down the line? My whole day is drenched with emails so I try to stay away from them whenever else possible.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by ketanmaheshwari » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

Such a great collection!

I like https://begriffs.com

Does anyone know any tool that will mass bookmark links on a page?

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by breck » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

Some good ones:

http://avc.com/

http://paulgraham.com/

http://www.moserware.com/

https://believermag.com/

https://blogmaverick.com/

https://fs.blog/

https://juliagalef.com/

https://marginalrevolution.com/

https://nav.al/

https://sive.rs/

https://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/

https://vitalik.ca/

https://waitbutwhy.com/

https://www.lrb.co.uk/

https://www.metafilter.com/

https://xkcd.com/

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by x14km2d » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

Dave Winer - http://scripting.com/

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by CA0DA » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:20 PM UTC

Tangent: Use an RSS reader to subscribe to these to support RSS! I have been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader... recently and enjoying it

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by juramento » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:21 PM UTC

https://www.evanmiller.org

Discusses:

- Programming - Applied Math

And some random stuff like: Evaluating splatoon's ranking system: https://www.evanmiller.org/evaluating-splatoons-ranking-syst...

Really recommend it ;)

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

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Post by skywal_l » Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:22 PM UTC

torh wrote: post #58

Fabien https://fabiensanglard.net/ is a must on this list, IMO. I really enjoy his code reviews. I can also recommend the books he have made so far on Wolfenstien 3D and Doom.

I also like the minimalist style of his site.