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

298 points by marceee0901 ↗ HN
Technical or non-technical.

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Bruce Schneier's 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

Super Organizers by Dan Shippper

Stratechery by Ben Thompson (not really underrated on HN)

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.

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.
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/

Technical, strictly iOS: 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.

I read Software Lead Weekly: https://softwareleadweekly.com/

It’s mostly about interesting links on management, company culture, or software development.

Seconded. I have found some great articles over the last 6 months.
They also have a slack account. It's moderately active.
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.
Seconded completely, incleading the first part. Matt Levine's twitter is apparently also hilarious. (I don't know, I don't do twitter.)
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

Not sure if underrated, but I really enjoy "The Morning Paper" https://blog.acolyer.org/

Reviews CS papers and explains them in a way that is surprisingly easy to understand

Let me add the Python Weekly: https://www.pythonweekly.com/

It is a newsletter which aggregates links for news, articles, libraries, talks, etc. that happen in the Python ecosystem.

I like 'This week in blockchain research' by ZKCapital. I've found some nice papers and the abstracts show where cryptocurrency research is going.