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Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?

by cl42 on 12/6/24, 5:28 AM with 13 comments

• by mikewarot on 12/6/24, 8:59 AM

    Doc Searls - One of the early bloggers, editor of the Linux Journal, pushing for a better internet
    Dave Winer - one of the creators of RSS, sometimes has interesting thoughts about the subject
    Sabine Hossenfelder, Angela Collier - Sane critiques of the world of physics
    Ben Krasnow (Applied Science) - Doing cool shit with the stuff others invent
    Jeff Geerling - at the intersection of technology and radio
    Kevlin Henney - really strong wisdon about programming, convinced me that immutable data was actually a useful idea
    Sam Zeloof and Atomic Semi - He made chips in his parents garage, now he's working on the equivalent of a 3d printer for ASICs.
    Justine Tunney - Actually making full use of the machines we all have after decades of Moore's law.
    George Hotz - helping to impedance match compute hardware with applications of deep learning. (TinyGrad) Absolutely hates systolic arrays, he's mostly right. Oh... and the only person offering working mostly self driving for a Tesla (and other cars)
    Jason Scott - Archivist, story teller
    Grant Sanderson - 3 Blue 1 Brown, telling stories about math, and making tools to help visualize them
    Eric Weinstein - Strongly held opinions, most of them correct, novel insights about the world like the Embedded Growth Obligation that is deranging our institutions.
    CGP Grey - Famous Recluse, awesome explainer. I'm still waiting for the next episode of Hello Internet.
    Edward Snowden - Traitor or Hero, the man who told us a bit about what the deep state is up to
    John Robb - Deep thinker about the future of society and the internet on the large scale. He introduced me to the OODA loop, etc.
    Dylan Beattie - Story teller, inventor of the RockStar programming language, convinced me that Unicode is a good idea after all
    Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory at Ohio State - Joining things together that are otherwise impossible, only publishes every few years
    Jeri Ellsworth - Hacker, made transistors by hand
    John Plant / Primitive Technology - Researching the foundations of our world by doing, watch his channel with the subtitles on... he starts with a sharp rock, and works his way up through buildings with tile roofs, and iron smelting
  
    Ryan McBeth, Ward Carroll - Two (ex) military guys who fill in a lot of details about how the world *really* works.
    Peter Zeihan, Robert Morris / @RobboLaw, Vlad Vexler - Geopolitical analysis, they kind of balance each other out
  
    Barry Mehler / MoreBadNews, Nate Hagens - Covering the eventual collapse of our world, ecosystem, etc.
  

  My youtube follow list is public: https://www.youtube.com/@ka9dgx/subscriptions

  There are many more, but those are the ones I think are worth a peek to someone else.

• by esperent on 12/6/24, 7:02 AM

  I also like Statechery for takes on the financial side of tech that I wouldn't otherwise be exposed to. There's only a few free posts a year but they're long and usually worth reading in full. I've tried quite a bit to find other analysts of equal depth and mostly failed. My conclusion is that there just aren't many of them out there.

• by nicbou on 12/6/24, 11:56 AM

  Simon Sarris is a new favourite of mine. It’s very gentle and thoughtful.

• by handfuloflight on 12/6/24, 5:48 AM

  I have a dedicated email inbox for newsletters, and for blogs that don't have a newsletter I use https://rssby.email/ to receive them. Keeps my main inbox clean and when I want to dive in, I know where to look.

  Here are some of my subscriptions:

  Sacra

  Every.to

  David Perell

  Animalz

  Demand Curve

  Seth Godin

  Eugene Yan

  A Smart Bear

  Benedict Evans

  explaining.software

  Jason Liu

  ...and many more that I am missing that I have move over to this dedicated inbox from my main inbox.

• by revskill on 12/6/24, 6:43 PM

  I follow my yesterday self !

• by cm2123 on 12/6/24, 5:09 PM

  fs.blog