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Ask HN: What newsletters do you subscribe to?

2 pointsJadoJodo6 comments

I am cleaning up my inbox, and wondered what newsletters others find useful.

Here are the ones I currently read (most) every issue:

https://thehustle.co, https://zsa.io/the-ergo, https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com, https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff, https://www.calhoun.io, https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com, https://inside.com (tech, streaming), https://www.thefp.com, https://ground.news

Recently, I've been using HN RSS (https://hnrss.github.io/) to get alerts when specific keywords get mentioned on HN. Really useful tool! The underlying data comes from Algolia's HN search engine (https://hn.algolia.com), which is neat to run some searches and understand which keywords can be interesting to follow.

Thinking about following Subreddits with filters on keywords through RSS, instead of regularly checking into Reddit, to save time and cut through the noise.

https://www.404media.co/

Zero. I only subscribe to RSS feeds.

I should've clarified that I'm interested in those, as well. What ones do you subscribe to?

I have about 110 feeds that are ingested by my YOShInOn RSS reader. I have been messing around with that code lately after a haitus so maybe I'll have an OPML export for you this weekend. I haven't been reading it too avidly so lately I do a cycle a week that imports about 10,000 articles, it picks 300 articles (based on a content-based recommender) to show me and starts a new cycle when I get through that. I probably look at another 100 articles per cycle on different screens.

Everything that I submit to HN was selected by that system, then selected by me twice.

I'm using Suprfeedr for ingestion which costs about 10 cents per feed per month which feels like a huge bargain for busy feeds but is prohibitive for independent blogs that get a post a week. It sends articles to a webhook, those go into Amazon SQS with a 14-day timeout, I can just pull articles out of SQS when it is convenient for me rather than writing a polling head end. If I had a better head end I'd probably subscribe to another 2,000 or so independent blogs.

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