I subscribe to a variety of information feeds through email mailing list subscription. There's at least one mailing list that seems to get my attention on a regular basis, namely that produced by KurzweilAI: http://www.kurzweilai.net
The mailing list seems to touch on cutting edge news across AI research and business.
What do you subscribe to that you think others would benefit by if they were to as well?
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(If you're an old subscriber, you'll be moved to the new version in the upcoming days/weeks. Don't fret, if you don't like the look of the new version you can still select the old-style look).
Matching keywords in title/url/text or url body, e.g. match the content of the url.
Bonus points for being to use regex and select which fields you'd like to match against.
As in spider and keep a local copy of the submitted article for search purposes? That would be pretty slick (although restricting it to submissions that get more than 10-20 votes or 2-3 comments might make it more manageable).
Hey, Dan Bader here. I just wanted to say thanks for including my Python Tricks (https://dbader.org/python-tricks) series in your list, that's awesome :-)
Money Stuff by Matt Levine. Highlight of my morning for over a year now. It's targeted at the finance industry but it's accessible to outsiders and has taught me a lot about how the economy actually works.
Tedium - http://tedium.co
Deep dive on obscure subjects twice a week.
Recomendo - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/Recomendo
Quick little tips for tools (software and others) that you'll find useful in many ways. From Kevin Kelly of Wired.
There's occasionally a little overlap between these, but I mostly find that they cover different ground. SRE Weekly in particular has good coverage of outages and incident reports that I find interesting.
Peter Cooper's weekly digests https://cooperpress.com/publications/ are good for links you might have missed during the week.
Topics include Ruby, Node, React, Go and more.
Flowing Data http://flowingdata.com/
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.
A bit to the side: I don't subscribe to any lists at the moment. Should I start? Is it better than just checking the sites I care about once in a while? How do you personally use it?
I used to consume most of my stuff through RSS but RSS seems largely dead unfortunately. It provides me with a nice balance between tracking (lots of) things but being able to pull that in when needed and keep it separate from other mediums like email. Subscribing to mailing lists usually ends up to me adding filters that move them to a different folder that I check less.
So for me, I subscribe to 3 or so newsletters. If I find myself not reading one weekly or monthly when it comes, I unsubscribe since it's not something I'm currently interested in. This avoids me ignoring mailing lists or newsletters in general so those that I do read actually add value. HN I check on a daily basis, it's a tab in my browser. But that's about it.
> I start my day with my RSS reader and the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.
Awesome, happy for you. I wish that was the case here. For most of my news sources (which aren't tech) no RSS feed exists. Same for a number of newsletters I'm interested in. They exist in plain HTML format but there's no RSS feed to speak of, not even of the archive.
However, I've recently ran into RSS-Bridge[1] which I'm hoping means that I'll be able to generate RSS feeds out of some stuff and get back to consuming most of my information that way.
LLVM Weekly http://llvmweekly.org/ - provides a nice summary of what's happening around LLVM/clang. It's structured into an announcement and media coverage section, what's going on on the mailing lists, and recent commits.
* https://nytimes.com/newsletters/morning-briefing - daily summary of news. NYT has it's biases but the daily briefing is useful for picking up on stories quickly and deciding what's worth reading more about.
Lastly, I have a small newsletter of my own where I send out a weekly-ish plaintext email with interesting articles, essays, and links that I've found. You can check it out at https://tinyletter.com/levthedev. I'd love feedback on the format/content.
As somebody who has been doing web development for almost 20 years, I wasn't expecting much from your mailing list. I have been consistently impressed with your tips and look forward to them appearing in my inbox now. Thanks -- and keep up the good work!
I made something for myself, which parses provided subreddits, and sends the top voted links as a list to my e-mail daily. Few of my friends requested to receive same e-mails with different subreddits, and I have turned it into a product.
I have never publicly shared the product anywhere and lost my enthusiasm to develop it further, but most of my friends are happy that it keeps them up-to-date on the topics they actually care. I humbly welcome you to try if you generally enjoy reddit content.
Javascriptweekly.com and its associated newsletters. They have iOS, React, Databases, Golang, Frontend (HTML/CSS), Node, Ruby, and Devops newsletters. At the footer of each version of their newsletters are links to all of the others. Minimal ads, very simple design, over a dozen links, and job postings in each one.
I tend to let my eyes slip over posts on here and Reddit concerning the topics I follow because they invariably end up in those newsletters. I got back and search them on here later if I feel like I need the Hacker News comments for further discussion.
CVE disclosure list: oss-security@lists.openwall.com (unfortunately since Mitre stopped taking bug reports via e-mails it's not as active as it has been).
I rather like Porter.io which will provide you a digest of top HN posts, but if you login with your GitHub they will also include articles relating to repos you are following. Some days I get a digest of articles I have already seen, but most days I find an article or two I missed.
The Browser! https://thebrowser.com. I frequently see its recommendations percolating through to the front page of HN. 5 hand-picked articles a day drawn from every corner of the internet, covering philosophy, literature, technology and other things, linked, pithily summarised and available as email newsletter, RSS feed, or full-text Instapaper/Pocket auto-push.
While targeted at one programming language community, The Scala Times consistently delivers quite high quality content. It's one of the only newsletters I'm still subscribed to.
Opps Daily http://www.oppsdaily.com/ We ask people about the problems they face at work, and the software that could solve those problems. Then, we send you their answers.
"Fermat’s Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers. Just as Pierre de Fermat scribbled his famous last theorem in the margins, professional scientists, academics and citizen scientists can annotate equations, figures and ideas and also write in the margins. Every week we send you a new paper annotated by the community."
I have a personal newsletter where every week I post a mistake I've made programming or in my career, and what readers can learn from it. For me it's helped improve my programming, for readers it helps them avoid my mistakes: https://softwareclown.com
If you like KurzweilAI I'd also check out Technically Sentient by Rob May and The Exponential View by Azeem Azhar. They're both great sources of info about the AI space.
For every open source project that you are reliant on, there are probably two mailing lists: one for the developers, and one for the users.
Take a look at both of them; they might be exactly what you need to stay up to date.
For most major non-open-source software projects, there is an unofficial users' mailing list. This is usually much more useful than the official support forum. Try finding it.
One that I've subscribed to for a very long time is "The Scout Report". Weekly set of 20 or so links to eclectic liberal arts things, but would appeal to a proportion of the folks here. (https://scout.wisc.edu/about)
I recommend Weekend Reading by Assaf Arkin to everyone, covers several topics from design and front-end to security, tooling and peopleware. More than just a collection of links, includes a bit of commentary which makes it feel much more personal.
More on the beginner/intermediate end of the spectrum, the Viking Weekly Code Review pulls together resources helpful for learners and has a section on coding music each week:
Mattermark Daily - "A human curated newsletter that brings you the best perspectives, insights, and lessons learned from investors and operators in the startup ecosystem."
I have one based on my blog. Its focused on documenting my experiences learning various techs. Subscribe for something different and not commercial. No spam or bs.
Delancey Place - excerpts from a range of non-fiction books. Usually has something interesting to read to start the day, and a good place to find interesting books
related but off-topic:
Would it be nice if we could just go meta and share newsletters as "self-updating" bookmarks on something like pinboard(just a happy user here)? Next step - implementing machine-learning so that we have consistent static types. Tags are great but after a while I feel users forget them after a while and personally its a cognitive load on my side to make data structures of tags in my head. The second layer could be personal tags so that we have a more dynamic view. Is there something like this?
It's a daily email from the team that produces Hustle Con in San Francisco every year. They are very witty and have always been dedicated to their readers.
Here is an excerpt from yesterday's email:
Bezos recently announced he’s selling $1B of his Amazon stock each year as he looks to cash in before the company’s imminent bankruptcy.
Just kidding. It’s Amazon. It’s not going anywhere.
The actual story is that DJ Jazzy Jeff’s using the money to fund a pet project. Which, when you’re the second richest man in the world, means your side hustle rocket company, Blue Origin.
- HN Digest - http://hndigest.com/
- Hacker News Books - http://hackernewsbooks.com/
- Julie Zhuo's The Looking Glass - http://www.juliezhuo.com/design/mailinglist.html
- a16z monthly newsletter - http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=35c671b34bb40414916...
- Pointer.io - http://www.pointer.io
- Changelog Weekly - https://changelog.com/weekly
- Dan Bader's python tricks - https://dbader.org/
- The New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/newsletters
- Android Weekly - http://androidweekly.net/
- AndroidDevDigest - https://www.androiddevdigest.com/
- GitHub Explore - https://github.com/explore/subscribe
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