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Ask HN: Best curated newsletters?

• renaissancec 11y ago
  Azeem Azhar's Exponential Life David Farber's Interesting People Benedict Evans weekly digest Sinocism Webstock's weekly newsletter TechTails by Smalldog Electronics
• skewart 11y ago
  Great question! I hope it gets traction and makes it to the front page. I'm curious to see what people come up with. I like Dave Pell's Next Draft, which is just interesting general news stories, and also Azeem Azhar's Exponential View, which covers tech, with a slant towards AI/ML. In terms of stuff the HN crowd is less likely to already know about, I like Archinect, which covers architecture. It's not really a curated article roll-up so much as it is an architecture news site, but their weekly email is a nice way to stay on top of what's going on in the field.
  • neilsharma 11y ago
    Thanks for the suggestions -- looking into them now. Clever idea to sign up for a site's weekly email instead of skimming the site. I used to sign up for an HN newsletter that'd only show the top posts. I thought that was an effective way of pushing only the best content to me every few days. Realized later that I enjoy reading a some articles that didn't get a lot of upvotes. I also tried to create an open google doc where a small group of friends could share links to articles they found particularly noteworthy. Participation was 0, so I gave up and now just store interesting articles in my bookmarks folder. Messy.
    • skewart 11y ago
      The Google doc is an interesting idea. I think the stuff I line most on HN doesn't always correlate with what has the most upvotes, so I don't think I'd be happy with a best-of-HN summary either. Are there any email newsletters you already subscribe to and would recommend?
      • neilsharma 11y ago
        Aside from mattermark daily, I've haven't found a single newsletter that has had consistently good material. Tried several, but kept unsubscribing when they started to feel like spam. I found some of the human-made playlists on 8tracks.com to be better than a lot of the algorithmically generated ones on Pandora/Spotify/Youtube, but music is highly subjective. Been meaning to give product hunts collections a solid attempt: https://www.producthunt.com/collections https://www.producthunt.com/collections For book recommendations, I find an intellectually-minded friend on Goodreads who has similar tastes to me, and just go down his/her list. I think a general pattern here is: there are positive deviants in society whose tastes and interests correlate with my own far stronger than the average's.
        • vram22 11y ago
          For tech, Peter Cooper has a bunch of newsletters - JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly, etc. Great original question, BTW.
    • hardmath123 11y ago
      I've been thinking about setting something like this up, but over email. Anyone who opts in to the mailing list would be able to submit a link+description, and once a week some software would automagically send out an aggregated email to everyone who opts in. The problem is getting it to the optimum size. If it's too small, it won't work because nobody will want to post. If it's too large, then the signal-to-noise ratio drops and it's no better than Reddit or HN. Also, moderation is hard.
      • neilsharma 11y ago
  • anuj_nm 11y ago
    Next Draft is awesome! I've been reading it for almost 4 years, and its one of my primary sources of general news. He limits it to ten stories a day, and his curation is excellent. I find myself looking forward to clicking through it everyday.
  • javierga 11y ago
    Second Azeem’s EV. And if you happen to live in London you should check the periodical Exponential Dinners he organises
• douche 11y ago
  I like these, tending towards the .NET world Alvin Ashcroft's Morning Dew http://www.alvinashcraft.com/ http://www.alvinashcraft.com/ Chris Alcock's Morning Brew http://themorningbrew.net/ http://themorningbrew.net/ Regular Geek http://regulargeek.com/category/geek-reading/ http://regulargeek.com/category/geek-reading/
• suresk 11y ago
  In the Hadoop ecosystem, the Hadoop Weekly has been pretty useful to subscribe to: http://www.hadoopweekly.com/index.html http://www.hadoopweekly.com/index.html
• scottpiper 11y ago
  http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ - For news related to building large web apps and software. https://summitroute.com/blog/ https://summitroute.com/blog/ - (mine) Infosec news. http://ben-evans.com/#newsletter http://ben-evans.com/#newsletter - Email only newsletter from Benedict Evans of A16Z mostly related to large mobile business moves. https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/ https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/ - TLS crypto news (monthly) http://golangweekly.com/ http://golangweekly.com/ - Golang links
• sareiodata 11y ago
  A WordPress curated newsletter you can find at http://wpmail.me http://wpmail.me It's sent once a week and you should find at least one or two good articles that are worth reading. Then there is https://www.brainpickings.org https://www.brainpickings.org where the author reads a bunch of books and sends out a newsletter with a resume of each book. I personally don't think there's anything like this out there!
• btgeekboy 11y ago
  I subscribe to, and enjoy reading, http://postgresweekly.com/ http://postgresweekly.com/
• kiesel 11y ago
  I enjoy reading * http://softwareleadweekly.com/ http://softwareleadweekly.com/ - about people, culture, leadership * http://www.devopsweekly.com/ http://www.devopsweekly.com/ - DevOps, by Gareth Rushgrove Just my pick. Indeed, I've found links there that haven't popped up anywhere else (HN, Twitter), so I second the original poster's opinion that mail newsletters are a good thing - wouldn't have thought that.
• long 11y ago
  There's a good one on internet (and non-internet) culture at http://tedium.co/ http://tedium.co/
• vatsal 11y ago
  I like http://www.StrictlyVC.com http://www.StrictlyVC.com for VC/Startup related news. I also enjoy http://www.MarketSnacks.com http://www.MarketSnacks.com for a quick and often humorous read in the morning related to wall street and the public markets.
• pjdkoch 11y ago
  http://www.devopsweekly.com/ http://www.devopsweekly.com/ I don't always have time to read it. But, when I do, I never regret it.
  • jlgaddis 11y ago
    Looking at their archive [0], it appears the last "issue"(?) was a little over 14 months ago. [0]: http://www.devopsweekly.com/archive http://www.devopsweekly.com/archive
    • benjaminwootton 11y ago
      Still very much alive and excellent - I think he just hasn't automated the archive update.
• mangoorange 11y ago
  http://importpython.com http://importpython.com is a Python Weekly Newsletter. Unlike some of the other newsletter on Python it's not just the best of Reddit but articles that aren't even on Reddit. Check it out.
• jlgaddis 11y ago
  I pretty much NEVER subscribe to anything like this as it seems like a given that I'll eventually get spammed. Recently, though, I signed up for the "cron.weekly" [0] newsletter and it's actually pretty decent. I think I first saw it mentioned here. The "archives" [1] are available as well, so you can get an idea of what it's like before you sign up. [0]: http://www.cronweekly.com/ http://www.cronweekly.com/ [1]: http://www.cronweekly.com/archives/ http://www.cronweekly.com/archives/
  • Mojah 11y ago
    Hi there, I'm writing that mailing list, so I'm very happy to read you're enjoying it. Thanks for sharing! Mattias
• rdlecler1 11y ago
  If you're into food and agtech, we run https://AgFunderNews.com https://AgFunderNews.com Our weekly newsletter features our top articles and other top external articles we shared on social media. Newsletter goes out to >15,000 people each week with a 30% open rate.
• myztic 11y ago
  I second https://www.brainpickings.org/ https://www.brainpickings.org/ and also would like to add http://nextdraft.com/ http://nextdraft.com/ (though it is more "general news") - other than that I can't help, because I actually prefer to use rss-feeds over Newsletters. Some RSS-Feeds I follow and which might be of interest: http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/ http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/ - http://www.rand.org/blog.html http://www.rand.org/blog.html - https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ - https://bsdmag.org/ https://bsdmag.org/ (PS: You can also get rss-updates about new entries in Youtube-Playlists (google it) and if you use Twitter and follow some interesting people, that might also be a good way to stay up to date)
  • guftagu 11y ago
    Also a gem of a blog is Joel Spolsky's joelonsoftware.com. He doesn't post much now but read the archives. You won't regret it.
• nirajrajmohan 11y ago
  I personally recommend Snippets from Social+Capital (s23p). I like their pick of articles - very logical and insightful. Delivered once a week, it captures an essence of what goes on in the tech and startup world while casting aside all the hype and hoopla that most other blogs end up pushing. Take a look at some of their past newsletters - http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=d7f0f45160075006b25756cd0&id=159d546edd http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=d7f0f45160075006b2... 2nd Place : Weekly Newsletter + Podcasts from Andreessen Horowitz (A16z). The podcasts are amazing - discussions with entrepreneurs working on bio-tech, AI, Fin-tech, Quantum Computing. All the people I would love to hang out with. Preview http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=35c671b34bb404149166bf755&id=6da14709cd http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=35c671b34bb40414916... Non-tech: Brain Pickings FTW!
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• mrw34 11y ago
  Data Machina reliably surfaces links that I wouldn't have seen otherwise: https://tinyletter.com/datamachina https://tinyletter.com/datamachina
• davemel37 11y ago
  I read http://www.MarketingLand.com http://www.MarketingLand.com 's MarketingDay Email every day & http://www.SearchEngineLand.com http://www.SearchEngineLand.com 's SearchCap. MarketingDay does an amazing job curating posts from around the web as well as give you the top stories published on MarketingLand that day. It is a must read for anyone involved in any area of digital marketing.
• lubonay 11y ago
  For Android development, Android Weekly is the most popular newsletter: http://androidweekly.net/ http://androidweekly.net/
• tmlee 11y ago
  My friends hand curate newsletter related to Fintech and bitcoin & cryptocurrency http://www.fintechstreet.com http://www.fintechstreet.com http://www.altcoinweekly.com http://www.altcoinweekly.com
• nl 11y ago
  Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net/ http://lwn.net/) For Machine Learning I can't recommend Talking Machines (http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/ http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/) highly enough. It is a podcast though.
• citeguised 11y ago
  For front-end & web-development, the weekly »Web Development Reading List« is pretty nice. https://wdrl.info/ https://wdrl.info/
• cleartruth 11y ago
  http://importpython.com/newsletter/ http://importpython.com/newsletter/ is one I enjoy reading. Specially the open source projects they feature every week have been helpful to my development/work.
• SCdF 11y ago
  For tech I'm honestly trying to keep up less, I want more time in my life to read shitty fiction etc (and you know, spend time with humans I guess); I've spent the better part of a 15 years keeping up _too_ much IMO. On nothing to do with tech: I'm desperately trying to find something that covers general world news without too much of a US slant, in a nice concise way. Next Draft (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) is pretty good, but is very US heavy. When I trialled subscribing to The Economist their Espresso app-- which is essentially a daily curated newsletter-- was pretty decent, so if you sub to them you should definitely check it out. These days I'm trying the qz daily digest, which I think is working out OK: they talk about what to expect in the next day, what happened while you were asleep etc. If anyone has any better suggestions I'd love to hear them: I like how the economist actually talks about other parts of the world apart from the states, but I don't love it enough to pay their standard sub rate. In terms of general flowery writing I get emails from Medium based on what I've read, emails from Pocket based on what I read, and longform.org's newsletter. Depending on how snowed under I feel at any given time I either just delete them without opening them, of potentially skim them to see if anything is interesting.
  • cel1ne 11y ago
    "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." – Bruce Lee
  • cJ0th 11y ago
    I've subscribed the Quarz RSS feed (not the daily newsletter). I am mostly pleased with their articles. They do have a weird obsession with women's issues, though. It's not that I don't care about these but articles on this subject are often a bit fluffy for my taste. Example: http://qz.com/599694/a-peek-inside-modern-day-elite-kitty-parties/ http://qz.com/599694/a-peek-inside-modern-day-elite-kitty-pa... (I read that article two times and still don't understand why "Kitty Parties" are of significance and how they differ from other social gatherings of business minded women or people in general) @OP: Thanks for posting this questions. Looking forward to other people's answers. I find it quite reassuring that other people also long for curated newsletters.
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• onion2k 11y ago
  http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural Data Is Plural by Buzzfeed's data editor. It's a curated list of interesting open data sets that can be used to build stuff.
• palcu 11y ago
  Quartz's daily newsletter for everything global. - http://qz.com http://qz.com Morning Reader, for general tech news - https://morningreader.com https://morningreader.com hackernewsletter for avoiding lurking on HN too much - http://www.hackernewsletter.com http://www.hackernewsletter.com
• nepsilon 11y ago
  I'm curating Fullweb Weekly[1], a newsletter for Fullstack developers. The format is the top 5 links of the week + 1 mini article. About 1100 subscribers now, I also welcome contributions! 1: https://fullweb.io/ https://fullweb.io/
• personlurking 11y ago
  It's quite hard to build up a following these days. In the last 5-6 years, I made such newsletters for the coffee world, airports, plus cultural items and tech news out of Brazil. For all of them, I made use of my knowledge/familiarity of Romance languages and would thus translate foreign news to add to my newsletters. Essentially, I learned they were "nice-to-have" but not necessary in order to operate in these fields (the latter being what I was aiming for). - For coffee, I learned people in the know are after 24/7 changes in the commodities market. - For worldwide airport news, well, I don't think there is much of a market there (though I would regularly capture 30-50 pertinent articles per day). - For Brazil news, cultural awareness is nice to have but in order for something like that to be needed, I would think the focus would have to be Business, and very specific (in fact, I played around with making newsletters like this). - For Brazil tech, I think it was too early on in its development because there were only around 10-15 items per day. There's a final component I failed to consider with the first two newsletters above, I had no product dev, no one on the inside to say "hey, focus on this aspect, that's what people need."
• pmcpinto 11y ago
  Farnam Street Blog Newsletter: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/ Great source of wisdom
• chriseidhof 11y ago
  For iOS, I really like iOS Dev Weekly: https://iosdevweek.ly https://iosdevweek.ly Dave, who runs it, also built https://curated.co https://curated.co, which is a tool for producing these kind of hand-curated newsletters.
• reuven 11y ago
  I run Mandarin Weekly (http://MandarinWeekly.com/ http://MandarinWeekly.com/), for people learning Chinese. It comes out every Monday, and I've been doing it for more than a year. It's fun to hear from other people learning Chinese, around the world!
• stelian 11y ago
  From https://frontendfront.com https://frontendfront.com I send a newsletter every Monday with the most upvoted front-end news of the week.
• reuven 11y ago
  I run Daily Tech Video, at http://DailyTechVideo.com/ http://DailyTechVideo.com/, with a single, curated conference video about the sorts of topics I like -- namely, Web development, programming languages, and databases. I started it to keep up on topics and conferences, and I'm now up to more than 430 videos, categorized by language, technology, etc.
• qgaultier 11y ago
  I use http://www.pearltrees.com http://www.pearltrees.com, fully hand curated. I think it matches exactly your needs.
• 0x54MUR41 11y ago
  For engineering, I would recommend Sliced Ham [1]. It contains some engineering and development blogs from various companies and individual contributors. [1]: http://www.slicedham.co/ http://www.slicedham.co/
• toni 11y ago
  Try NewsletterStash http://www.newsletterstash.com/ http://www.newsletterstash.com/ It's a newsletter directory where you can search and find all kinds of newsletters even with subjects outside the tech world. (I've got no affiliation with them, just found it a while back on OpenHunt and thought it's useful.)
• nexxer 11y ago
  In addition to others mentioned here, I've been enjoying Weekend Reading by Assaf Arkin for a roundup of lighthearted tidbits about the dev world, in addition to some useful tips: http://tinyletter.com/assaf http://tinyletter.com/assaf Example link from yesterday's I liked: https://twitter.com/HenryHoffman/status/694184106440200192 https://twitter.com/HenryHoffman/status/694184106440200192
• Mojah 11y ago
  Fully disclaimer: I'm the one writing this newsletter. Cron.weekly is a weekly newsletter (every Sunday) with news on Linux and open source. Focussing on the technical side mostly, featuring new tools & projects and guides & tutorials, as well as the latest news, releases, ... pretty much anything noteworthy in open source. It's available here: http://www.cronweekly.com/ http://www.cronweekly.com/ And all archives are available here: http://www.cronweekly.com/archives/ http://www.cronweekly.com/archives/
• ranganaths8 11y ago
  IF you are python programmer, importpython (http://importpython.com/newsletter/ http://importpython.com/newsletter/) is the must for subscription
• dinosaurs 11y ago
  http://javascriptweekly.com/ http://javascriptweekly.com/ http://nodeweekly.com/ http://nodeweekly.com/ http://rubyweekly.com/ http://rubyweekly.com/ I like how they post the weekly newsletter on the website. I'm not subscribed, but I read it every week. It's a nice way to stay up to date of some technologies I use daily.
• skorgu 11y ago
  I compile some random links and send them out every week: https://www.skorgu.net/weird/ https://www.skorgu.net/weird/
• dennybritz 11y ago
  Shameless plug, but I am curating a Deep Learning / Artificial Intelligence newsletter: http://www.wildml.com/newsletter/ http://www.wildml.com/newsletter/
• thekindlyone 11y ago
  importpython for python programmers.
• siquick 11y ago
  https://www.soundshelter.net/ https://www.soundshelter.net/ Curates a personalised list of electronic music/soul jazz vinyl releases based upon items you add to your Saves list
• gautamnarula 11y ago
  I've been pretty happy with Charged (www.char.gd). Nicely summarized articles on the tech news for that week, with links to the originals and links for further reading.
  • owenwil 11y ago
    Thank you!
• owenwil 11y ago
  I found myself overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content coming out of most places, so I created one that focuses on technology and reducing noise on a weekly basis - about 7,000 subscribers now: http://char.gd http://char.gd
• itamarhaber 11y ago
  I really enjoy the stuff in Redis Watch - anything and everything about Redis: https://redislabs.com/redis-watch-archive https://redislabs.com/redis-watch-archive DISCLAIMER: I'm the curator and janitor of the newletter
• pedrodelfino 11y ago
  Beta List's newsletter
• rchaudhary 11y ago
  You can check out, http://www.pythonweekly.com http://www.pythonweekly.com http://www.nosqlweekly.com http://www.nosqlweekly.com http://www.founderweekly.com http://www.founderweekly.com Disclaimer: I am the curator of these newsletters.
• dhogan 11y ago
  For Data Science: Data Elixir http://dataelixir.com/ http://dataelixir.com/
• bckmn 11y ago
  My up-to-date list of newsletters (present, past, and future): http://www.andjosh.com/lists/newsletter/ http://www.andjosh.com/lists/newsletter/