Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

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Post by rndmize » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

https://www.currentaffairs.org/

I didn't realize how many years I'd been looking for a serious, entertaining, well-written leftist perspective on news and the world until I ran across this magazine.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

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Post by jaryd » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

new york review of books (https://www.nyrb.com/)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

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Post by benatkin » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

3pt14159 wrote: post #10

I like http://slatestarcodex.com/ a kinda pessimistic leftist who sometimes calls himself a libertarian, but wrote the best takedown of libertarianism I've ever read: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ It's what finally pushed me out of libertarianism after it was straining under my increasingly long list of qualifiers. He has a bunch of other great articles too ranging from ADHD to bayesian…

There's a podcast version of it. I find that it's a good way to consume it. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jeremiah-2/slate-star-codex

Also it's worth looking for in person Less Wrong & SSC meetups.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

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Post by czers » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 8:09 PM UTC

https://www.damninteresting.com - "A collection of fascinating true stories from history, science, and psychology. In text and podcast form."

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

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Post by jweather » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 8:14 PM UTC

The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ Starts out focused on text-based games, but branches out to a history of computing in general. My favorite thing is that Kindle-formatted archives are available.