I'd encourage you to check out some of the subreddits in the previous HN discussion link I posted. I think they might be your best bet. Though Lambda The Ultim

I'd encourage you to check out some of the subreddits in the previous HN discussion link I posted. I think they might be your best bet. Though Lambda The Ultimate (LtU) is officially a blog, it does have comments and it might be interesting for you. From their FAQ: >"Mostly this site deals with issues directly related to programming languages, and programming language research. However, we allow ourselves moderate forays to bordering issues like programmability and language in general." http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ Your desire to avoid "web-based" stuff suffers from the fact that such large swaths of tech today are "web-related" in some way. Your desire to avoid "compsci basics" suffers from the "News-To-Me" problem. Your desire to find "how X works inside" type content seems quite similar to "how X works _in_ _practice_". Given the above, I'd suggest reading current research papers. The trouble with research papers on HN is, papers take more time and effort to read, so they rarely get significant attention or useful discussion. Using Algolia HN Search can uncover some research. Stuff like "[pdf]" files, common sites, organization names, journal names, and even conference names can be useful: [pdf] arxiv.org plos.org usenix.org JMLR OSDI CVPR ICML Since you want stories with _discussions_ use the "comments>?" filter. https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story&query=[pdf]%20comments%3E1 https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page... https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story&query=usenix.org%20comments%3E1 https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page... One of the better efforts I've seen so far on the research paper front is "Papers We Love": http://paperswelove.org/ http://paperswelove.org/ https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love The trouble with "Papers We Love" is you need to live in one of places where the physical meetings happen, and you need to be able to get to said meetings. If you're home bound, then you're pretty much stuffed. Good Luck