Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?

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Post by azhenley » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC

Many of my favorite bloggers have stopped writing (or have drastically shifted topics). What are your favorite blogs?

I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects or super niche factoids.

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Post by idontwantthis » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:43 AM UTC

acoup.blog is the only blog I check individually.

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#3

Post by jihadjihad » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC

https://www.johndcook.com/blog

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Post by verdverm » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:46 AM UTC

https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/

technically a podcast, occasionally about Ai, learning a lot about economics and history

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Post by matheusmoreira » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

My favorites are:

http://wingolog.org/

https://www.journal.stuffwithstuff.com/

https://ciechanow.ski/

https://ellesho.me/

> I miss the 2009 era of blogging about personal projects

I've been doing that. Not sure if I've made it into anyone's favorites yet.

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/

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Post by bluefirebrand » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:48 AM UTC

My favorite blog for a long time was Shamus Young over at https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale

He passed away a couple of years ago unfortunately but there's a lot of stuff there that is pretty interesting. He has some awesome stuff about procedural generation

It's really more of an entertainment blog than an information one but there's still some really interesting stuff there.

Rest in Peace Shamus. You made a huge impact on a younger me

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

idontwantthis wrote: post #2

acoup.blog is the only blog I check individually.

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Post by fraXis » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

Not a blog, but a podcast, but I love "The AI Daily Brief," and I listen to it daily because it keeps me up to date on almost everything happening in the AI universe.

https://aidailybrief.ai/

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Post by _caw » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

Inigo Quilez's (of demoscene fame, highly talented graphics engineer) blog is one of my favorites: https://iquilezles.org/blog/

It's a time capsule from that era.

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#10

Post by geekman7473 » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC

Raymond Chen often makes it to the front page here, but in case you haven't seen it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

This is my favorite from him: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=10...