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Ask HN: Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?

320 points by Dowwie ↗ HN
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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watsonc73
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.
yla92
A mix of everything

- 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

davidverhasselt
Hey, thanks for linking hndigest! We're in the process of rebuilding hndigest from scratch. If you'd like to sign up now, I suggest using the beta version which has improved looks and robustness (and upcoming new features): https://beta.hndigest.com

(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).

stedaniels
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.
kbenson
> url body

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).

gkya
Wow thanks! Just subscribed to 4 of them.
maaaats
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?
daenney
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.

gumby
> I used to consume most of my stuff through RSS but RSS seems largely dead unfortunately.

Why do you say this? I start my day with my RSS reader and the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.

cJ0th
> the only site I follow that doesn't really support RSS is HN.

I am not sure what you mean by "really" but there is

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

However, its quite rudimentary (maybe that's what you're getting at?)

gumby
Yeah, the structure of the site isn't really conducive to RSS, while a site like the NYT or a friend's blog, with regular structured posts, is.
daenney
> Why do you say this?

Because that has been my experience?

> 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.

[1]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

nrao123
My mailing lists include:

# avc.com

# Ben Evans

# azeem azhar

# social capital

# aeon

# farnam street

# nautilus

# Axios's pro rata

# mattermark

# delancey place

# quanta magazine

estsauver
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.

http://scalatimes.com/

eru
The Haskell Cafe is quite interesting.
ghendrix
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.
derwiki
Ruby Weekly is great! I don't stay day-to-day up-to-date with Ruby, and this once/week newsletter keeps me informed.
jatsign
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

http://delanceyplace.com/

dsr_
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.

charlieegan3
https://www.cronweekly.com/ is good.
blakesterz
I love cron.weekly! It's now the only weekly email I get focused on anything tech. He does such a great job.
teh_klev
Yep, agree, I sub to it as well. It was a "Show HN" submission that briefly hit the frontpage (or close to) which is how I bumped into it.
wishinghand
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.

Pandabob
Interesting. I've been thinking about subscribing to "Stratechery" by Ben Thompson. Any recommendations for or against it?

Currently subscribed to:

- The Morning Paper (https://blog.acolyer.org/)

- Benedict Evans (http://ben-evans.com/newsletter)

- a16z (https://a16z.com/)

ksikka
Strong rec for stratechery. It doesn't cost much, the writing is excellent, it's insightful and enjoyable.
evtothedev
Definitely recommend Stratechery. I'd estimate that about one in four of the emails are awesome, and about one in ten are totally eye-opening.
arjunnarayan
Subscribe to the free once-a-week. If you like it, upgrade to the paid once-a-day.