Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?

Post by goolulusaurs » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 5:42 AM UTC

msutherl wrote: post #67

goolulusaurs wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ribbonfarm is truly top-notch, one of my absolute favorites as well. I also like http://lesswrong.com/ but I think its pretty well known.

While I've found some nice ideas on Less Wrong, articles like this recent one: http://lesswrong.com/lw/frp/train_philosophers_with_pearl_an... go to show the tunnel vision of the "Rationalists" that haunt that part of the internet. I think of Venkat Rao as a combination of that sort of scientific rationalism with the sort of old-school intellectualism that can only come from reading an epic quantity of literature and…

Post by yaphets_pis » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 6:31 AM UTC

Post by allolimo09 » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 7:30 AM UTC

Post by batgaijin » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 9:05 AM UTC

larsberg wrote: post #7

Probably the most unknown area I read and/or hear about today are private G+ circles. For example, much pre-publication PL/compilers work is mentioned in "limited" posts. I've heard similar things are happening in ML areas, though I have no personal insight into them.

Post by draegtun » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 11:04 AM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #35

I find Planet blog aggregators a useful and surprisingly unknown resource. Great way to get a view into the blogs of a whole project community without having to follow a pile of them individually; I recommend following the Planet for any project you regularly use or have a strong interest in. I personally follow these planets regularly (via a bookmark folder that I open into tabs): Planet Debian: http://planet.debian…