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Ask HN: What are some high signal blogs?

by smk_ on 1/18/22, 3:05 PM with 29 comments

Hello HN.

I am looking to expand my information sphere and would like to hear of any interesting, high-signal blogs you follow.

I can begin by recommending Astral Codex.

Thanks!

  • by PaulHoule on 1/18/22, 3:30 PM

    Part of me wants to like Astral Codex (Bayes theorem is dear to my heart and my head) but I find it too rambling and too tied to the cringeworthy "rationalist" scene. (e.g. some of those people think the 'woke' folks are groupthinkers, but some of their circles would drive people out if they expressed disbelief in quasireligious concepts such as superhuman a.i., cryonics, etc.)

    For people who want to understand "how to successfully promote a blog" my favorite is

    https://www.righto.com/

    which I think is captivating to people even if favors nostalgia vs timeliness (never news) and few people would find it useful (for my electronics hobby I expect to build increasing powerful illusion projectors and I find some of his talk on electronics inspirational and educational but I never expect to decap a chip or make discrete versions of things like current mirrors and op amps that are impractical to make on an artisan scale.)

  • by open-source-ux on 1/18/22, 4:55 PM

    Lines and Colors is a great blog to dip in to find some visual inspiration. This blog has been going since 2005 - impressive longevity for a personal blog.

    Description:

    > Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it's fair game.

    http://linesandcolors.com/

  • by cpach on 1/18/22, 5:17 PM

    The problem with high-signal blogs is that they tend to be low-frequency…

  • by notomorrow on 1/18/22, 7:39 PM

  • by bsoudan on 1/18/22, 10:22 PM

    http://electoral-vote.com from 2 political scientests summarizes US political news, high signal AND high frequency, several articles each weekday morning.

  • by mooreds on 1/18/22, 3:14 PM

    What domain? I follow tech blogs, finance blogs, real estate blogs, cloud computing vendor blogs. Different domains have different strong players.

  • by drocer88 on 1/18/22, 3:31 PM

  • by sysadm1n on 1/18/22, 3:30 PM

    web.dev[0] is full of great articles if you like web development

    CSS Tricks[1] is also full of handy snippets of code you can use when developing a website. I've noted many handy (somewhat overlooked) pieces of code on there. Feel free to skip some 'noisy' articles that have code you will never use. I tend to focus on stuff that will work everywhere, regardless of browser.

    [0] https://web.dev/blog/

    [1] https://css-tricks.com/

  • by soueuls on 1/18/22, 4:02 PM

    Lyn Alden - https://www.lynalden.com/ (finance)

    Mr Money Mustache - https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ (unusual approach to minimalism and FIRE)

  • by pgwhalen on 1/18/22, 8:27 PM

    fedguy.com, if you are interested in monetary policy or economics. I also recommend the book by the same author (Central Banking 101).

  • by meco on 1/18/22, 10:42 PM