In my experience, HN users tend to have incredibly specialized interests. I'm curious about what newsletters are out there that deliver a depth of specialized knowledge?<p>For me, it doesn't get better than 'The Prepared' and the 'Future of Trucks' newsletters. Both provide a window into technicalities that I wouldn't otherwise think about in fields that I'm broadly interested in.<p><a href="https://theprepared.org/" rel="nofollow">https://theprepared.org/</a>
<a href="https://www.trucks.vc/newsletter" rel="nofollow">https://www.trucks.vc/newsletter</a>
I enjoy this weekly and concise email from my colleagues focused on tech coverage outside the US/West. No ads, no promos, just very simple layout.<p><a href="https://restofworld.org/newsletters/world/" rel="nofollow">https://restofworld.org/newsletters/world/</a><p>While it definitely promotes our stories, I like the the "What we're reading" and "one more thing" which are usually interesting and external content. I think all this contributes to our fairly high open-rates and healthy organic subscription growth.<p>There are two other content driven newsletters for South Asia and Latin America but that global newsletter is my favorite.<p><a href="https://restofworld.org/newsletters/" rel="nofollow">https://restofworld.org/newsletters/</a>
Unzip - <a href="https://unzip.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://unzip.dev/</a> - is really nice. Each issue is focused on unpacking a specific dev trend / topic.<p>Self-promotion: <a href="https://newsletter.leadership.garden/" rel="nofollow">https://newsletter.leadership.garden/</a> - A hand-curated newsletter for leaders and managers in tech.
Scuttleblurb, David Kim's SubStack, sends out in-depth write ups of companies. It's technically an investing newsletter, but it's really more about the mechanics of a given industry and how a particular company or group of companies operates within that industry. Similarly, and these aren't newsletters but they do come out at newsletter-like frequencies: the Company Man and the Wendover Productions YouTube channels.<p>Granted, these aren't specialized in terms of a single industry or single tech field, but, if you're a business enthusiast / love learning about industries you previously didn't know about, these are excellent.<p><a href="https://www.scuttleblurb.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scuttleblurb.com/</a>
Company Man: <a href="https://youtube.com/channel/UCQMyhrt92_8XM0KgZH6VnRg" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/channel/UCQMyhrt92_8XM0KgZH6VnRg</a>
Wendover Productions: <a href="https://youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions</a>
There's a really great epidemiologist who has been publishing data-driven articles on substack on the subject of COVID, from samples from waste water to control groups across the world. Her insights are often super valuable and she only speaks to what she knows and the rest goes off of data she comes across. I'd really recommend her thoughts on anything COVID-related<p><a href="https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/</a>
A newsletter is the same thing as a blog post, right? In that case I think this one about the satellite imagery industry is interesting:<p><a href="https://joemorrison.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://joemorrison.substack.com/</a><p>The main thing you learn is that outside of governments there isn’t much of a satellite image industry. Which is why there aren’t that many posts.
The Signal
<a href="https://daily.thesignal.co/" rel="nofollow">https://daily.thesignal.co/</a>
it's more like a cumulative version of the daily news around the world mostly tech related.<p>Finshots
<a href="https://finshots.in/?utm_source=emailHeader&utm_medium=mailshots" rel="nofollow">https://finshots.in/?utm_source=emailHeader&utm_medium=mails...</a>
for Finance related content<p>either/view
<a href="https://eitherview.com/" rel="nofollow">https://eitherview.com/</a>
for politically focused content with both side of views
Blender Guru (Andrew Price) has a newsletter I enjoy for all things Blender <a href="https://www.blenderguru.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow">https://www.blenderguru.com/newsletter</a><p>Dave Verwer has IOS dev Weekly that always has something interesting <a href="https://iosdevweekly.com" rel="nofollow">https://iosdevweekly.com</a><p>Edit: and Animation Obsessive for a bit of weekly animation history <a href="https://animationobsessive.substack.com" rel="nofollow">https://animationobsessive.substack.com</a>
For the silicon chip industry, the Linley Group’s Microprocessor Report [1] is amazing. I know of no better resource for high-end chip news. Here’s a bunch of cut down sample articles [2] and one actual one [3]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.linleygroup.com/mpr/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linleygroup.com/mpr/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.linleygroup.com/sample.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.linleygroup.com/sample.php</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/55972/220401_Reprint.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/55972/220401_Reprint.pdf</a>
I’ve been working on a robotics newsletter for close to 4 years now. Maybe someone here will find it interesting <a href="https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/</a>
Wrestling Observer Newsletter[0]. Covers the pro wrestling (and MMA) business. Been going since the 1980s. The writer and publisher Dave Meltzer was featured in the New York Times a while back[1].<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_Observer_Newsletter" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_Observer_Newsletter</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/sports/wrestling-reporter-dave-meltzer-tries-to-keep-it-real.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/sports/wrestling-reporter...</a>
For AR/VR, <a href="https://youtube.com/c/SadlyItsBradley" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/c/SadlyItsBradley</a> is cringe, but he has solid supply chain info leaks about upcoming products and a surprisingly good understanding of the technology. Meanwhile, <a href="https://kguttag.com" rel="nofollow">https://kguttag.com</a> is by far the best place to learn about the many fundamental unsolved problems that are preventing the grand vision of metaverse AR glasses from being realized anytime soon, and the reality of what upcoming products will be like as they work around those problems in various ways.
If I might, I would like to share the hyper focused newsletter that I do on embedded systems: <a href="https://embedsysweekly.com" rel="nofollow">https://embedsysweekly.com</a><p>From the feedbacks I have, a lot of professionals from the field like it.
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) continues to deliver really insightful commentary at the software/business interface. <a href="https://bam.kalzumeus.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bam.kalzumeus.com/</a>
Moon Monday (<a href="https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday/archive" rel="nofollow">https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday/archive</a>) covers every major update in our return to the Moon as well as exploration and science updates from across the globe.
I'm in a weird place doing federal policy work that straddles a bunch of areas (tech, critical minerals, and defense mostly) but I like a few 1) The Global Lithium Podcast, 2) PetroNerds, 3) CQ Roll Call, 4) Breaking Points, 5) Conversations with Tyler
Somewhat 'technical': For anyone interested in health and longevity, I recommend Peter Attia's Newsletter and his Podcast. He gets really technical, but is still comprehensible for people without a medical degree.<p><a href="https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/" rel="nofollow">https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/</a><p>I think nearly all health related changes I made in my life, I made based on his content.
Graphs for Data Science: <a href="https://graphs4sci.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://graphs4sci.substack.com/</a><p>Visualization for Data Science: <a href="https://viz4sci.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://viz4sci.substack.com/</a><p></ShamelessPlug>
Posts are fairly few & far-between, but Cryptography Dispatches [1] always has very high-quality content; worth reading if you work in that space.<p>1: <a href="https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches" rel="nofollow">https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches</a>
Hanno Böck's monthly Bulletproof TLS Newsletter is an excellent summary of TLS/PKI goings-on.<p><a href="https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/</a>
I do enjoy my wine, especially South African wines. This blog's news letter focuses on South African wines and other wine related topics.
<a href="https://thewinedream.wine/" rel="nofollow">https://thewinedream.wine/</a>
Being in cybersecurity, all of those: <a href="https://github.com/TalEliyahu/awesome-security-newsletters" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/TalEliyahu/awesome-security-newsletters</a>
<a href="https://bitcoinops.org/" rel="nofollow">https://bitcoinops.org/</a><p>> This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for delinked reusable addresses, summarizes how the WabiSabi protocol may be used as an enhanced alternative to payjoin, examines a discussion about adding communication standards to the DLC specification, and looks at renewed discussion about updating LN commitment formats. Also included are our regular sections with summaries of new software releases and release candidates plus descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
I think there will be a lot of money in focused industry newsletters over the next ten years or so.<p>This will be basically identical to the corporate media business of yore: start in publishing, build audience, use that to sell events/training (and then, eventually, someone comes along and consolidates all of them). There will be a twist, but...basically.<p>We aren't even at the start of this trend imo (a lot of the industry news is still distributed physically, I don't think current publications have really "cracked" the format/content organization yet either) as the replies kind of demonstrate.
Huge fan of SemiAnalysis run by Dylan Patel <a href="https://semianalysis.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://semianalysis.substack.com/</a><p>I have yet to find a better in-depth source for hardware ongoings.
For synbio / biotech news: <a href="https://www.codonmag.com/archive" rel="nofollow">https://www.codonmag.com/archive</a><p>Was pleasantly surprised to see this newsletter reappear after a lengthy hiatus.
CLUI, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, has a yearly newsletter that I find absolutely fascinating; you can sign up here if you want an email notification when it's out:<p><a href="https://clui.org/section/contact-center" rel="nofollow">https://clui.org/section/contact-center</a><p>and read past issues here:<p><a href="https://clui.org/newsletter/archive" rel="nofollow">https://clui.org/newsletter/archive</a><p>CLUI is "dedicated to the increase and diffusion of knowledge about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived."
<a href="https://greenbuildingadvisor.com" rel="nofollow">https://greenbuildingadvisor.com</a>. Reading about advances in energy-saving construction techniques and HVAC is loads of fun.
Best technical software engineering newsletter is Quastor IMO.<p>The writer looks through all the various engineering blogs from Big Tech companies and sends out summaries of the most interesting posts.<p><a href="https://quastor.org/" rel="nofollow">https://quastor.org/</a><p>They also do technical writeups and deep dives on OSS projects and whatnot.<p>Here's one they did on Apache Spark -> <a href="https://www.quastor.org/p/the-architecture-of-apache-spark" rel="nofollow">https://www.quastor.org/p/the-architecture-of-apache-spark</a>
Maybe not hyper-focused, but I joined CodeProject's Daily Insider newsletter in like 2005 freshman year of high school and despite considering a few times over the years opting out, it's been a consistent source of interesting links and news I hadn't heard yet.<p>Plus it has a slight Microsoft-technology bent, which breaks me out of my Linux/web programming bubble sometimes.<p><a href="https://www.codeproject.com/feature/insider/" rel="nofollow">https://www.codeproject.com/feature/insider/</a>
Asianometry[1]: Mostly about semiconductors, with YouTube videos
[1]:<a href="https://asianometry.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://asianometry.substack.com/</a>
<a href="http://highscalability.com" rel="nofollow">http://highscalability.com</a> for anything related to large scale systems has always been full of interesting content.
Stratechery. I've been a subscriber since 2016.<p>In the last couple years Ben added a private podcast stream with audio versions of his newsletters, which has been a huge quality of life improvement for me. I wish more newsletters did this, I would happily pay more.<p>Keeping up on reading newsletters was fine when I used to travel a lot, but now (with kids, post-COVID) I generally just consume the audio version while driving, working out, etc.
Not free, but if you're into fashion, Women's Wear Daily is the go-to source for news in that field.<p>It's been publishing fashion news every day for over 100 years.<p>I think it costs around $300/year. But it's important enough that a lot of fashion-related companies pick up at least part of the expense for their employees.
The Construction Physics substack is a great source of knowledge for both historic and current experiments in construction methods.<p><a href="https://constructionphysics.substack.com/archive" rel="nofollow">https://constructionphysics.substack.com/archive</a>
If you want a breadth of industry publications physically delivered, I greatly recommend the Trade Journal Cooperative <a href="https://www.tradejournalcooperative.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tradejournalcooperative.com/</a>
<a href="https://www.theanalog.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theanalog.io/</a>. Weekly newsletter focused on hardware and manufacturing, lots of interesting links related to the field. Strong EE focus.
My personal favorite is the data visualization newsletter Chartr: <a href="https://www.chartr.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.chartr.co/</a><p>Provides visualizations of the top data driving the news on a given weekday.<p>My self promotion is the Future News report I started last year: <a href="https://news.youexec.com/" rel="nofollow">https://news.youexec.com/</a><p>We read as many news stories and research papers a day as we can and highlight the top "shifts" (breakthroughs, government moves, or growing business trends) that will impact the future within the next five years.
Superfast Python focuses on Python concurrency. I am amazed by the author's prolific and excellent output.<p><a href="https://superfastpython.com/" rel="nofollow">https://superfastpython.com/</a>
I absolutely love this one: <a href="https://www.cheapoldhouses.com/latestlistings/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cheapoldhouses.com/latestlistings/</a> it's literally just what the name suggests. It's homes (mostly in the US, but they have a list for "foreign" homes as well) that are < $100k with 3+ acres and usually they need lots of work.<p>It's fun to look at the history of the homes and think about how you could renovate it into a personal home, or a bed and breakfast or something.
Stefan Judis' newsletter about web development is pretty good: <a href="https://www.stefanjudis.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.stefanjudis.com/</a>
Benn Stancil’s newsletter on the data infrastructure economy is super interesting<p><a href="https://benn.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://benn.substack.com/</a>
I recently subscribed to <a href="https://8bitnews.io" rel="nofollow">https://8bitnews.io</a> for retro-computing news and haven't been disappointed.
Here are some audio fiction podcasts that buy + produce stories from a broad community of authors:<p><a href="https://escapepod.org/" rel="nofollow">https://escapepod.org/</a>
<a href="https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/</a>
<a href="https://www.drabblecast.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.drabblecast.org/</a>
Data Science / Data / AI news: <a href="https://www.datascienceweekly.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.datascienceweekly.org</a>
Demand curve has a great newsletter about marketing/growth: <a href="https://www.demandcurve.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow">https://www.demandcurve.com/newsletter</a><p>Self promotion: I recently started <a href="https://saastips.com/" rel="nofollow">https://saastips.com/</a> to catalog everything I learn about saas from podcasts, blog posts, etc
I love Podnews (Podcasting News)<p><a href="https://podnews.net" rel="nofollow">https://podnews.net</a><p>Easy digest, to the point, always got something interesting
Near Future Lab [1] does a great newsletter on things happening in 'design fiction' space — <a href="https://buttondown.email/designfiction" rel="nofollow">https://buttondown.email/designfiction</a><p>[1]<a href="https://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com</a>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/rocket-report-nasa-buys-a-spinlaunch-space-force-brass-visits-starbase/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/rocket-report-nasa-b...</a><p>The Ars Technica Rocket Report, edited by Eric Berger.<p>It will keep you updated about the launcher industry.
This Week In Fintech by Nik Milanovic. Gives one a weekly digest of news, opinions, and all things financial technology. And also has content specific to different regions around the globe. <a href="https://thisweekinfintech.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thisweekinfintech.com/</a>
For anyone interested in the future of city infrastructure and technologies:<p>- [NextCity](<a href="https://nextcity.org/" rel="nofollow">https://nextcity.org/</a>)<p>- [Shareable](<a href="https://www.shareable.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.shareable.net/</a>)
I've co-written and edited our newsletter covering climate tech and urban tech startups for over 8 years <a href="https://thirdsphere.com/updates/" rel="nofollow">https://thirdsphere.com/updates/</a>
The RISKS digest is a newsletter on all things computer security, and their risks to the public. It’s been going since 1985.<p><a href="https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/" rel="nofollow">https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/</a>
I’m enjoying Read Max, a newsletter about Pop Culture. <a href="https://maxread.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://maxread.substack.com/</a><p>There was a Dune article that got some traction here a few months ago.
Shameless plug: <a href="https://newsletter.dsebastien.net" rel="nofollow">https://newsletter.dsebastien.net</a><p>My newsletter focuses mostly on bootstrapping and Personal Knowledge Management these days.
A great read about the media business: <a href="https://www.amediaoperator.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amediaoperator.com/</a>
This one is good for the legaltech market: <a href="https://www.artificiallawyer.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.artificiallawyer.com</a>
No CS Degree does interviews with self-taught devs<p><a href="https://www.nocsdegree.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.nocsdegree.com</a>
I consider these cop-out answers, but Stratechery [0] and Money Stuff [1] are excellent. I'm bewildered daily by Matt Levines ability to write. Mobile Dev Memo is pretty good and follows mainly the mobile ad industry [2].<p>Apologies for the self-promotion, but in case any tech minded finns are reading this, I write a daily news letter about tech in finnish called Transistori [3].<p>[0]: <a href="https://stratechery.com/" rel="nofollow">https://stratechery.com/</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://mobiledevmemo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mobiledevmemo.com/</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://www.transistori.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.transistori.com/</a>
<a href="https://tldrmarketing.com" rel="nofollow">https://tldrmarketing.com</a> for SEO, social media marketing, and other digital marketing related things.<p>It's the only newsletter I've actually stuck with and enjoy.
Pedestrian Observations is great for railroad systems <a href="https://pedestrianobservations.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pedestrianobservations.com/</a>
Someone on HN recently linked to <a href="https://www.readsomethinginteresting.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.readsomethinginteresting.com</a>. It seems to be focused on personal blogs and I've been really enjoying finding authors I didn't know about.
I would recommend the The Syllabus. It's curated and broken down by specific topics. If you subscribe, some additional customizations are available.<p><a href="https://www.the-syllabus.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.the-syllabus.com/</a>
None, ever. I never subscribe to newsletters. I hate spam.
I subscribed to newsletters in the past to only regret my decision because it was used to funnel spam/ads and annoy me with meaningless updates.<p>I would appreciate a common spec where packages could ping new releases, something like rss I could then subscribe to and get new release notifications with a changelog.<p>But mail is something where I don't want spam. Email is for important messages and invoices. I'm trying to keep that space clean.
It's weird how few people seem to be aware of this but the whole field of economics seems to be undergoing some pretty big transformations. One of the best sources for keeping up with this shift has been Evonomics:<p><a href="https://evonomics.com/" rel="nofollow">https://evonomics.com/</a>