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

That would be :https://blog.acolyer.org.

> an interesting/influential/important paper from the world of CS every weekday morning, as selected by Adrian Colyer

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. If I find myself not reading one weekly or monthly when it comes, I unsubscribe since it's not something I'm currently interested in. This avoids me ignoring mailing lists or newsletters in general so those that I do read actually add value. HN I check on a daily basis, it's a tab in my browser. But that's about it.

For every open source project that you are reliant on, there are probably two mailing lists: one for the developers, and one for the users.

Take a look at both of them; they might be exactly what you need to stay up to date.

For most major non-open-source software projects, there is an unofficial users' mailing list. This is usually much more useful than the official support forum. Try finding it.

As a python dev I read : http://pycoders.com/

Javascriptweekly.com and its associated newsletters. They have iOS, React, Databases, Golang, Frontend (HTML/CSS), Node, Ruby, and Devops newsletters. At the footer of each version of their newsletters are links to all of the others. Minimal ads, very simple design, over a dozen links, and job postings in each one.

I tend to let my eyes slip over posts on here and Reddit concerning the topics I follow because they invariably end up in those newsletters. I got back and search them on here later if I feel like I need the Hacker News comments for further discussion.