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Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by firecall »

dfgert wrote: post #38
nomilk wrote: post #35

Slightly contrarian perspective: I'm trying to read less temporal (things that matter now ) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content). This does result in missing ~important things occasionally (e.g. I still don't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI, and yes, I am curious), but that's a small price to pay for greater inte…

I am trying to do this as well, but being surrounded by news/social/stream outlets that just push unnecessary hype its hard to achieve this. Any recommendation on how to filter out the junk?

Read Books, is the answer I think.

The entire online news chain is polluted it seems to me.

If you have access to a decent Library, I believe the benefits to the individual by using it are:

1) economic, save you money 2) social, you interact with people 3) physical, you are moving around 4) mental health, you are using a different part of your brain and being proactive by planning to engage in new knowledge

Then hopefully you can feel positive, optimistic, and look forward to reading the books you just borrowed!

Then you reappear the cycle when you return them!

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by ethbr1 »

adrianN wrote: post #36
haolez wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about this. It seems that there is more demand for high level work than low level. But I hope you are right!

Low level pays pretty well.

Does it? Every time I check embedded salaries I'm shocked in a bad way.

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by rounakdatta »

exolymph wrote: post #30

https://www.thediff.co/ like Stratechery meets Money Stuff

This. Very high-quality writeups. Also, one should read Roots of Progress newsletters - I found the signal:noise ratio extremely high for these two newsletters.

The former is more CS x economy. The latter is more Science x history x economy.

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by nomilk »

dfgert wrote: post #38
nomilk wrote: post #35

Slightly contrarian perspective: I'm trying to read less temporal (things that matter now ) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content). This does result in missing ~important things occasionally (e.g. I still don't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI, and yes, I am curious), but that's a small price to pay for greater inte…

I am trying to do this as well, but being surrounded by news/social/stream outlets that just push unnecessary hype its hard to achieve this. Any recommendation on how to filter out the junk?

Some tips:

- If material is a few years old yet still very highly regarded, it's probably worthy.

- Prepare yourself some content in advance that's both interesting and useful so it's low-effort to switch if you find yourself reading or scrolling out of boredom. I have rails guides bookmarked for this purpose - 5 minutes waiting for an uber gains me some useful knowledge while alleviating boredom.

- Search wide, be selective. A few good reads is better than a lot of average/bad ones. Be prepared to skip chapters if it isn't delivering value after 2-3 chapters, and quit entirely if you can't find worthy content after reading a few chapters + table of contents and skimming a few more chapters. Give it a little longer if you're unfamiliar with the topic or style.

- A lot of 200+ page books could have instead been 10 page essays. Quickly move over unimportant sections if you get the impression they're filler. Same (or, more so) for other mediums too.

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by adrianN »

ethbr1 wrote: post #43
adrianN wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Low level pays pretty well.

Does it? Every time I check embedded salaries I'm shocked in a bad way.

Embedded is not the only low level work there is. Databases for example require a lot of low level knowledge, but the market big enough to pay well.

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by jack_riminton »

firecall wrote: post #41
dfgert wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am trying to do this as well, but being surrounded by news/social/stream outlets that just push unnecessary hype its hard to achieve this. Any recommendation on how to filter out the junk?

Read Books, is the answer I think. The entire online news chain is polluted it seems to me. If you have access to a decent Library, I believe the benefits to the individual by using it are: 1) economic, save you money 2) social, you interact with people 3) physical, you are moving around 4) mental health, you are using a different part of your brain and being proactive by planning to engage in new knowledge Then hope…

I really like this viewpoint. I can understand more now why elderly people use the library so much (beyond the obvious technical divide).

Re: Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

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Post by jwoq9118 »

aurelius wrote: post #14

None of them. Study Knuth. Study the Intel manuals. Study “The Art of Multiprocessor Programming”. Study compilers. Study TCP/IP. Study algorithms and data structures. Write lots of code for all of those things. Disregard the noise. Ban yourself from reading blogs and magazines and tech news. Focus on what is fundamental to the field. Look where nobody else is looking.

Guys like Sam Altman did exactly not this. They gained breadth in what was specifically relevant to the problem being solved.
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