HACKER Q&A
📣 bk146

What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?


Currently read the mainstream things: Stratechery, Wired, Verge, Arstechnica, etc. but looking to diversify my sources in 2024. Any recommendations?


  👤 nomilk Accepted Answer ✓
Slightly contrarian perspective: I'm trying to read less temporal (things that matter now) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content).

This does result in missing ~important things occasionally (e.g. I still don't know what happened with SamA at OpenAI, and yes, I am curious), but that's a small price to pay for greater intellectual sanctity and an increased attention budget to distribute across important tasks or funnel into something hyper focussed.


👤 jcrubino
Paged Out! Institute https://pagedout.institute/

# What is Paged Out!?

Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.

It's made by the community for the community. And it's not-for-profit (though in time, we hope it will be self-sustained) - this means that the issues will always be free to download, share, and print.

> Reminiscent of the vintage original Freaker/Hacker Publications, though clearly devoted to one page technical articles.


👤 aurelius
None of them. Study Knuth. Study the Intel manuals. Study “The Art of Multiprocessor Programming”. Study compilers. Study TCP/IP. Study algorithms and data structures. Write lots of code for all of those things.

Disregard the noise. Ban yourself from reading blogs and magazines and tech news. Focus on what is fundamental to the field. Look where nobody else is looking.


👤 frankdenbow
I've been putting out videos from (mostly) bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are outside of the normal tech news cycle in a youtube channel called INFLECTION Community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsO80DSMypJSSDcgdDywgdQ

👤 idlephysicist
I'm always amazed by the information that can be had in the comments section on this site.

👤 ClimaxGravely
I've recently started reading bluesnews again after a 15+ year hiatus. I love how the site seems to be more or less exactly the same. Runs great on all my devices (crazy I have to point that out in modern times).

For those that don't know it's primarily a game news site but has some daily rundowns of some various tech news stories so I think it fits the criteria.


👤 zacwest
"Communications of the ACM" (https://cacm.acm.org/) is a great source for a variety of topics. It recently went digital-only and is included in an ACM membership.

👤 shicholas
This guy is awesome - https://www.twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen

👤 jesse__
I've found a small number of indie game devlogs to be inspiring in seeing the amount of shit 1 guy can get done

👤 exolymph
https://www.thediff.co/

like Stratechery meets Money Stuff


👤 jdve
Asterisk Magazine is refreshing. The physical copies are high quality without any ads.

https://asteriskmag.com/


👤 ashwinne

👤 brushfoot
In addition to the answers here, I'd recommend checking with your local library. I recently found out that mine has a subscription to Udemy. They have tech magazines as well. A great resource that can fly under the radar sometimes.

👤 bluehat974
I would say Hugging Face Daily curated papers on Machine Learning to follow the trend https://huggingface.co/papers

👤 cushpush
NextApex -- my eclectic digest (nextapex.co) with a newsletter at nextapex.beehiiv.com -- basically covering science, tech, ai breakthrus in a 3-min rundown. Made a dynamic link sharing site that operates like HN to go along with it and make collation easier.

👤 irvingprime
I apologize for this blatant self promotion but if you want to hear about science and tech news with a strong dose of humor, check out. https://technoscreed.substack.com

You might learn something. If you don't laugh, you might be too serious. See a professional.


👤 ivanmontillam
I find Dave Plummer's YouTube channel very fascinating ("Dave's Garage").

He explores old day's tech with insider stories, at least if you childhood was Windows-based like me.


👤 petabyt
I want to read a ton of stuff on physics and science. The past few weeks I've read about thermodynamics, next I want to read about quantum physics, optics, then math. Any recommendations for a beginner?

👤 uptown
I don’t read it often but when I do, I usually enjoy “MIT Technology Review”.

👤 asylteltine
Hacker News at most. Otherwise nothing. Improve your skills directly

👤 StepBroBD
Freethink [0] has some interesting write-ups, their videos are pretty fun to watch too.

[0] https://www.freethink.com


👤 owlninja
I would love any recommendations for physical magazines. I know they are mostly ads and yada yada, but I like to sit down with an actual magazine for some reason.

👤 nop_slide
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut

Very relevant on this AI age


👤 dev_0
Communications of ACM