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Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?

• holdmywaffles 7y ago
  Appsec Ezine. It's more red team than appsec, but the content is fantastic and timely. https://github.com/Simpsonpt/AppSecEzine/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/Simpsonpt/AppSecEzine/blob/master/README....
• srik 7y ago
  Couple non-technical ones off the top of my head - Dense Discovery https://www.densediscovery.com https://www.densediscovery.com Daily Stoic https://dailystoic.com https://dailystoic.com
  • apropostate 7y ago
    The daily stoic has been incredibly useful in keeping myself on track ever since I discovered it. Other helpful resources: the YouTube channel "Einzelgänger".
• Throwaway656543 7y ago
  Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/ https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/ It's probably decently-known with the Hacker News crowd, but I've met few others in the various places that I've worked who have even heard about it, let alone Bruce Schneier himself. It's a great way to learn about new attack vectors and developments in secure computing
• docdeek 7y ago
  Super Organizers by Dan Shippper Stratechery by Ben Thompson (not really underrated on HN)
• timurlenk 7y ago
  https://bankunderground.co.uk/ https://bankunderground.co.uk/ Bank Underground is a blog for Bank of England staff to share views that challenge – or support – prevailing policy orthodoxies. The views expressed here are those of the authors, and are not necessarily those of the Bank of England or its policy committees.
• ganzuul 7y ago
  Globalsecurity provides one of the few other NPOV perspectives on global events, aside from financial news. Still looking for something equivalent in human interest. I currently suspect the constraints of NPOV and minimal selection bias yield an empty set for human interest.
• maxwindiff 7y ago
  Council on Foreign Relation’s daily news brief: https://www.cfr.org/newsletters/daily-news-brief https://www.cfr.org/newsletters/daily-news-brief
• ciguy 7y ago
  This Week in DevOps: https://thisweekindevops.com https://thisweekindevops.com
• hising 7y ago
  I like Benedict Evans newsletter. Not too often (good thing IMO), but when it comes it is really readworthy. https://www.ben-evans.com/newsletter/ https://www.ben-evans.com/newsletter/ EDIT: Probably not underrated though (missed that bit)
• toiletfuneral 7y ago
  Foreign Exchanges is my favorite source for daily foreign policy analysis and Derek’s historical writings are amazing. Really incredible value for the price. https://fx.substack.com/ https://fx.substack.com/
• cerberusss 7y ago
  Technical, strictly iOS: https://iosdevweekly.com/ https://iosdevweekly.com/ What I like, is that it has been coming every Friday, for years. And it's really short. This has me actually reading the links.
• hunglee2 7y ago
  I read Azeem Azhar's Exponential View https://www.exponentialview.co/ https://www.exponentialview.co/ - wide ranging topics on 'exponential thinking'. Economics, climate change, AI, computing
• ronenlh 7y ago
  I like BetterExplained by Kalid Azad. https://betterexplained.com/ https://betterexplained.com/ A newsletter on intuitive math explanations.
• tmoravec 7y ago
  I read Software Lead Weekly: https://softwareleadweekly.com/ https://softwareleadweekly.com/ It’s mostly about interesting links on management, company culture, or software development.
  • kaushikt 7y ago
    Seconded. I have found some great articles over the last 6 months.
  • jredwards 7y ago
    They also have a slack account. It's moderately active.
• FabioBertone 7y ago
  The data and Maps newsletter of the London Geek @puntofisso deserves more glory every week I read it. https://puntofisso.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=77ecabbd32e97a6caa9d7d40b&id=f06739fb93 https://puntofisso.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=77ecabbd3...
• vkdelta 7y ago
  https://www.perell.com/newsletter https://www.perell.com/newsletter Good essays and interesting Friday finds section.
• torvald 7y ago
  I quite enjoy Postgres Weekly by Craig Kerstiens. https://postgresweekly.com/ https://postgresweekly.com/
  • thejosh 7y ago
    Yes! Postgres weekly was my favourite find from 2019! Great nuggets to be found.
• kaboro 7y ago
  https://thebrowser.com/ https://thebrowser.com/
• mcmullen 7y ago
  I doubt it's underrated by anybody reading it but worth mentioning nonetheless: Money Stuff by Matt Levine. Brilliant, hilarious coverage of all things money by a former lawyer and banker.
  • eru 7y ago
    Seconded completely, incleading the first part. Matt Levine's twitter is apparently also hilarious. (I don't know, I don't do twitter.)
• say_it_as_it_is 7y ago
  Evgeny Morozov, who is a great antidote for technological hubris, has organized with others to create a collection of noteworthy information on a variety of subjects but related to a political, activist theme. One need not agree with this work in order to learn from it. https://the-syllabus.com https://the-syllabus.com
• algasbo 7y ago
  Not sure if underrated, but I really enjoy "The Morning Paper" https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/ Reviews CS papers and explains them in a way that is surprisingly easy to understand
• ChrisHardman29 7y ago
  Sivv digest - a weekly email containing 10 bitesize business insights/'life hacks': https://www.sivv.io/ https://www.sivv.io/
• xenocratus 7y ago
  BIG by Matt Stoller - mostly about antitrust and monopolies https://mattstoller.substack.com/ https://mattstoller.substack.com/ Roots of Progress - inventions and ideas that helped shape the world https://rootsofprogress.org/ https://rootsofprogress.org/
• tzabal 7y ago
  Let me add the Python Weekly: https://www.pythonweekly.com/ https://www.pythonweekly.com/ It is a newsletter which aggregates links for news, articles, libraries, talks, etc. that happen in the Python ecosystem.
• openfuture 7y ago
  I like 'This week in blockchain research' by ZKCapital. I've found some nice papers and the abstracts show where cryptocurrency research is going.
• dostoevsky 7y ago
  Not sure about their underratedness, but I find the following newsletters interesting and insightful: Two Truths and a Take by Alex Danco (tech, VC, and broader topics): https://danco.substack.com/ https://danco.substack.com/ The Uncertainty Mindset by Vaughn Tan: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/ https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/ The Diff by Byrne Hobart (finance, tech): https://diff.substack.com/ https://diff.substack.com/ Kneeling Bus by Drew Austin (urbanism, tech): https://kneelingbus.substack.com/ https://kneelingbus.substack.com/
• langitbiru 7y ago
  About Ethereum: https://weekinethereumnews.com/ https://weekinethereumnews.com/ -> latest progress on Ethereum landscape https://bankless.substack.com/ https://bankless.substack.com/ -> crypto finance (heavy on Ethereum)
• FeatureIncomple 7y ago
  https://www.thegamingpub.com/ https://www.thegamingpub.com/ is such a great newsletter for those who like to check gaming news.
  • lucasfdacunha 7y ago
    Hey FeatureIncomple, Thanks for the shoutout. I'm the one responsible for the newsletter and very pleased that you enjoy it. Any feedback or suggestion is appreciated!
• pranshugarg7 7y ago
  ajuniorvc.com - Weekly newsletter for crisp startup analysis. finshots.in - Daily 3min finance newsletter.
• theo10010 7y ago
  I enjoy morning brew, finance & tech news https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/r/?kid=8aebb0 https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/r/?kid=8aebb0
• edshiro 7y ago
  For those interested in mobility (including micro-mobility) and self-driving vehicle technology (from the perspective of a VC), I highly recommend Riley Brennan's "Trucks | Future Of Transportation" weekly newsletter: http://www.tinyletter.com/transportation http://www.tinyletter.com/transportation
• palmscenter 7y ago
  Experimental Radio News: https://experimradio.substack.com https://experimradio.substack.com
• kemyd 7y ago
  https://bullets.news/ https://bullets.news/ - The best articles for science lovers shortened to five bullet points or less.
• lez 7y ago
  Redecentralize Digest / few emails per year about decentralization: https://redecentralize.org/redigest/2020/01 https://redecentralize.org/redigest/2020/01
• Jefro118 7y ago
  I'll just add a plug for my own newsletter because I like it and it's relevant to some of the HN audience: https://sourcesort.com https://sourcesort.com. It's interviews with open source maintainers and developers. The interviews vary a bit in length and quality but I learned quite a lot from conducting and editing them and I hope they're interesting to some others too. I think there's still a lot of improvement to be done but given the low number of subscribers I think it's underrated :) (Newsletter goes out once every week or two, usually on a Sunday).
  • Jefro118 7y ago
    Update: today's interview here: https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/alyssa-rosenzweig-panfrost https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/alyssa-rosenzweig-panfr...
• tjalfi 7y ago
  The National Bureau of Economic Research is a nonprofit economic think tank. They have a weekly mailing list[0] of their new working papers. I subscribe to many newsletters but this is the only one I read every week. There are normally at least two papers worth reading every week. [0] https://data.nber.org/new.html https://data.nber.org/new.html
• krmmalik 7y ago
  I love Matt Stoller on Substack. Talking about monopolies etc. Brill stuff
• dorena 7y ago
  The only newsletter I never get tired of is "nature briefing" https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=nature-briefing https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=nature-briefing
  • FabHK 7y ago
    Hmm, I clicked on the prominent "Subscribe" link, and it takes me to the subscriptions for Nature magazine... One can sign up here: https://www.nature.com/briefing/signup/ https://www.nature.com/briefing/signup/
• FabHK 7y ago
  Crypto-Gram, by nestor Bruce Schneier, on IT Security: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/ https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/ Unsupervised Learning, by Daniel Miessler, on IT Security or "intersection of security, technology, and humans", interesting links frequently: https://danielmiessler.com/newsletter/ https://danielmiessler.com/newsletter/ Money Stuff, by Matt Levine, on finance, derivatives, accounting shenanigans, VC, etc., frequently very funny and insightful: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe... https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters
  • smag 7y ago
    Money Stuff by Matt Levine is a gem. You don't need to work in finance to appreciate Matt Levine's insider take on the people and ideas that are in the news.
• vdwijngaert 7y ago
  cron.weekly by Mattias Geniar! https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/ https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/
• captatus123 7y ago
  Gary's Tiny Newsletter https://garybasin.com/tiny-newsletter/ https://garybasin.com/tiny-newsletter/
• lindbergh 7y ago
  Quandl newsletter for curated and handpicked articles about the intersection of finance and machine learning. https://alternative-data-news.quandl.com https://alternative-data-news.quandl.com
• GaryGapinski 7y ago
  Bulletproof TLS Newsletter — https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/ https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/
• kanzure 7y ago
  Bitcoin Optech has a high-quality weekly newsletter of bitcoin development updates: https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/ https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/
• primefactor97 7y ago
  The Prepared - Fascinating bits on manufacturing and logistics - https://theprepared.org https://theprepared.org Glimpse - Explores why certain trends are growing - https://meetglimpse.com https://meetglimpse.com Super Organizers - New ways of thinking about productivity - https://superorganizers.substack.com https://superorganizers.substack.com
  • pencerw 7y ago
    Thanks for the love! <3 I took a bunch of the suggestions in this thread + a few of my own and compiled a tagged database here: https://theprepared.org/mx-record https://theprepared.org/mx-record
  • dana321 7y ago
    Glimpse looks great, but kinda expensive for anything useful.. Any alternatives? I might just use the Google Trends feeds
    • primefactor97 7y ago
      It's the only one with trends that actually appear to be growing quickly as I think they do a large amount of scraping of discussion forums. They also do an analysis of why it's growing. There's a different one, exploding topics, too which shows google searches that tend to be growing but quite a bit more slowly.
  • yitchelle 7y ago
    Is the Super Organizers newsletter related to Notion? Seems to be quite a few issues related to it.
• jurassic 7y ago
  I'm really enjoying The Hustle https://thehustle.co/ https://thehustle.co/ It's a very entertaining take on the business world, but current and historical
• duck 7y ago
  I've been running https://hackernewsletter.com https://hackernewsletter.com for almost 10 years. I think most subscribers these days don't actually use or know about Hacker News, which has been an interesting shift.
• telchar 7y ago
  The Orbital Index (orbitalindex.com), highlighting interesting developments in space.
• inviromentalist 7y ago
  I haven't gotten a newsletter since last year, but every email has changed my life in one way or another https://efficiencyiseverything.com/ https://efficiencyiseverything.com/
• JediTrilobite 7y ago
  I really like Eliot Peper's Reading Recommendations, where he recommends a handful of books once a month: https://www.eliotpeper.com/p/inner-circle.html https://www.eliotpeper.com/p/inner-circle.html I've also been writing one for a bit over a year now that might be of interest to HN readers: Reading List, which I use for science fiction / fantasy storytelling commentary, reviews, and news: https://andrewliptak.substack.com/ https://andrewliptak.substack.com/
• mattl 7y ago
  https://tedium.co https://tedium.co —- lots of fascinating pieces of older technology there.
• sidcool 7y ago
  'Level Up', by former ThoughtWorks Consultant and N26 CTO, Patrick Kua. http://levelup.patkua.com/ http://levelup.patkua.com/
• hnbbooks 7y ago
  For book recommendations sourced from HN itself there's https://hackernewsbooks.com https://hackernewsbooks.com We aggregate the top books found in comments and rank them based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of the user. There's a weekly newsletter sent out with that week's book selections.
• s3nnyy 7y ago
  Here my own newsletter on tech, coding and careers: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/coderfit/ https://www.getrevue.co/profile/coderfit/ My motivation to starting one was that most programmers focus too much on the technical details ("get better at Python") and too little on the factors related to career growth or money ("how and when do i ask my boss for a raise?").
• kilimchoi 7y ago
  I'm running a free newsletter where I send you a coding interview question & solution everyday. https://hhcodinginterviewprep.substack.com/ https://hhcodinginterviewprep.substack.com/
• javiramos 7y ago
  I really enjoy The Prepared (https://theprepared.org/newsletter https://theprepared.org/newsletter) It is a newsletter broadly about engineering and manufacturing.
  • weeksie 7y ago
    Nice. I clicked on this thread with the intention of posting the Prepared. Spencer's rad.
    • pencerw 7y ago
      <3 -Spencer
• dccoolgai 7y ago
  Webplatformdaily is run by a guy who does a great job curating. I can say it's made me more aware of Web issues and better at my job. If you pitch like 3/month at the patreon you get a weekly newsletter with short editorial content. Def worth it if you work around the Web.
• CalChris 7y ago
  Nightwatch set the standard in open source news analysis. However John McCreary passed in 2019 and it is no more.
• andys627 7y ago
  The Overhead Wire which is about transit, cities, architecture, traffic, built environment: https://theoverheadwire.com/subscriptions/ https://theoverheadwire.com/subscriptions/
• dangoor 7y ago
  https://www.recomendo.com https://www.recomendo.com Recomendo gives a weekly brief collection of recommendations and most weeks I find something really interesting in there. For example: this week, they mentioned battery adapters for tools, which is a useful thing I hadn't heard of before.
• brenden2 7y ago
  Is this a "growth marketing" campaign for substack? I counted 11 references to substack. I'd just like to know when I'm being manipulated.
  • dang 7y ago
    I doubt it. Those accounts don't seem related.
    • brenden2 7y ago
      FWIW the profile of the OP says "Growth marketing by day, hacker at night".
  • hola_mundo 7y ago
    I think that Substack has experienced pretty widespread adoption within the crowd who hangs out on this site. At least that's what my Twitter feed would have me believe.
• embit 7y ago
  I read and run embit [1] - the daily tech news fix. Originally built for my own consumption. [1] https://embit.ca https://embit.ca
• jesse_m 7y ago
  The Embedded Muse http://www.ganssle.com/tem-subunsub.html http://www.ganssle.com/tem-subunsub.html Jack Ganssle has some really good content he's written for other publications as well.
• marrone 7y ago
  I've been putting out Game Dev Digest weekly, if you are interested in keeping up with Unity game dev related stuff. https://gamedevdigest.com https://gamedevdigest.com
• nicholast 7y ago
  I'm not sure if counts as a newsletter but the essays published semi-regularly in From the Diaries of John Henry are like, I don't know, pretty cool. https://www.turingsquared.com https://www.turingsquared.com
• ashleshbiradar 7y ago
  https://thehustle.co/ https://thehustle.co/ https://www.accessnow.org/ https://www.accessnow.org/
• neo1691 7y ago
  I have been suggested https://www.recomendo.com https://www.recomendo.com from a friend of mine and have found it useful.
• BenoitP 7y ago
  http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ Weekly (friday) newsletter about scalable systems. Kind of an echo chamber for HN or a high quality digest of it, depending on your viewpoint. Has sponsored posts.
• text_exch 7y ago
  I enjoy Thinking About Things - they send a single link on arbitrary topics every day. It definitely lives up to its name. https://www.thinking-about-things.com/ https://www.thinking-about-things.com/
• rchaudhary 7y ago
  Check out, https://www.pythonweekly.com/ https://www.pythonweekly.com/ and http://www.founderweekly.com/ http://www.founderweekly.com/ Disclaimer: I am the curator of both newsletters.
• hola_mundo 7y ago
  In the beginning of last year, I felt buried in information and I ended up unsubscribing from just about everything. I now follow a handful of great curators instead. It's probably the best thing I did last year to find more signal online. My favorite is Stew's Letter: https://stewfortier.com/subscribe https://stewfortier.com/subscribe It's a short email that comes out every week or so and includes a funny/entertaining collection of ideas across a broad range of topics. It has very few external links and can be read in one sitting, which means I end up actually reading it. David Perell sends out a similar email that I also enjoy (though, there are more links): https://www.perell.com/newsletter https://www.perell.com/newsletter
• muzani 7y ago
  Johnn Four Roleplaying Tips - Great if you GM or are simply interested in fantasy. Been 'subscribed' to him since college, just not all through email. https://roleplayingtips.com/ https://roleplayingtips.com/ The Growth Equation - Research on athletes & productivity, with links to scientific papers and well-researched articles. Content is top, I've taken more notes from some emails than I have from entire books. https://thegrowtheq.com/articles/ https://thegrowtheq.com/articles/
• fmoga 7y ago
  Curated financial news https://www.finimize.com/ https://www.finimize.com/
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• alexweber 7y ago
  I like Inside Security: https://inside.com/security https://inside.com/security Plenty of links on the latest threats, botnets, malware, etc. Variety of technical and less-technical pieces.
• paulsri 7y ago
  no mercy / no malice https://www.profgalloway.com https://www.profgalloway.com the fedex one was really good. edit: added the fedex comment
• MichaelKovacs 7y ago
  Farnam Street - https://fs.blog/newsletter/ https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Weekly on Sundays
• kiratoune 7y ago
  SatRdv (satrdv.substack.com). It is a weekly digest of satellite industry headlines.
• deadcoder0904 7y ago
  https://marketingexamples.com https://marketingexamples.com by Harry Dry to up my Marketing Skills :)