Ask HN: Best Tech articles in popular media like NYTimes, newyorker, wired etc.?

6 points·orsenthil··7 comments

nytimes has been covering AI related articles a lot since the OpenAI drama. I find the writing accessible and great introduction to subject. Similar articles have been written in media such as bloomberg (what is code?), new yorker (duo who made google).

So HN, tell me some excellent tech articles you have come across and read for general public in popular media?

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These retool articles

* Pipe Dreams - https://retool.com/pipes * Work flows - https://retool.com/workflows

Were both great.

A couple of books... #1 - Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/518513 #2 - Fire In The Valley - Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine (Mc Graw Hill) Each chapter explains the importance of individuals and companies during the early days of personal computers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647410

New York Times article that "that brought open source on the radar of the CEO".

Sharing Software, IBM to Release Mail Program Blueprint. John Markoff. December 14, 1998.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/...

I would start by looking the award winning articles and journalists year by year: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year

What is code? https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...

Here is an example that I enjoyed reading.

Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk...

The Friendship That Made Google Huge

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

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