Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by biztos » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

Marginal Revolution is nominally about economics, and it's not entirely not about AI, but AI is a fairly small part of what they cover:

https://marginalrevolution.com/

I follow a fair number of people who would, back in the day, have been classic bloggers, but are now doing Substack, and rarely even mention AI. Here's one I like enough that I actually pay for it:

https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/

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

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Post by jazzpush2 » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

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

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Post by biztos » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

idontwantthis wrote: post #2

acoup.blog is the only blog I check individually.

That's a great blog/website! I always forget where it is because of the weird domain, but now I'm adding it to my RSS aggregator.

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

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Post by fooqux » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

This is probably a bit niche, but this guy writes about developing and using Darktable and I wish I had a fifth of his knowledge.

https://avidandrew.com/

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

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Post by calvinmorrison » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

bicepjai wrote: post #17

Cider9986 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Hahaha. Attention span is in characters now. It’s just funny, thanks for sharing.

hey buddy we call them tokens here

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

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Post by kiddico » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

fooqux wrote: post #24

This is probably a bit niche, but this guy writes about developing and using Darktable and I wish I had a fifth of his knowledge. https://avidandrew.com/

Very cool, thank you for sharing!

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

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Post by speak_plainly » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

Thanks for all the links, I love feeding my RSS reader.

I really like this: http://blog.beforemario.com updates are rare these days, but they cover Nintendo corporate history and products before the company got into video games.

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

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Post by rochansinha » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 1:36 AM UTC

https://ciechanow.ski/ - The coolest blog on how things work but hasn’t seen any activity in a while.

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

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Post by run2arun » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 2:07 AM UTC

Arts & Letters Daily - https://www.aldaily.com/. Not a blog though. Might have AI-related articles but covered from a non-tech angle.

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

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Post by subset » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 2:55 AM UTC

Iago Leal's blog: https://iagoleal.com/

Some incredibly interesting perspectives on maths and computing