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Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?

15•f311a•10h ago
I'm pretty tired of seeing AI-related content everywhere. When I open Hacker News, close to half of the top submissions are AI-related. It's the same on social networks as well.

I miss the times when there was a lot of technical content that took time and mental energy to understand.

Nowadays, it's pretty hard to discover it. On HN, I see that a lot of technical articles don't make it to the front page, so sometimes I just search for them in the submissions. Not only is there less content, but demand for it is also declining. I guess people would rather read another article about LLMs that teaches almost nothing and doesn't exercise their curiosity. It feels sad for me, as a reader and as a writer.

So, are there any other places left where people still care about and share deep technical content? I want to keep exercising my thinking. I've had enough of brain-rotting.

Comments

iefbr14•9h ago
There is probably still a lot out there but with the current state of the ('free') search engines you won't find much. I am painfully reminded of that every time I have to look for a datasheet that is not in my own archive yet.
slipknotfan•9h ago
lobste.rs has some stuff
pseudo-usama•7h ago
lobsters genuinely seems more technical and less hype driven than HN these days
merrua•8h ago
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bediger4000•7h ago
At least part of the problem is that deep technical content doesn't get upvotes. The next time you see a link to such, note the vote count. It will be small. Note the vote count on some "AI" boosting link. It will be large. Is this Anthropic, Google and OpenAI bots for is it genuine interest?
markus_zhang•7h ago
There are a huge number of system programming books. You can also search for system programming topics on HN.
wanderingpixel•5h ago
Read more engineering content, e.g. https://circuitcellar.com/
brudgers•2h ago
[random comment on the internet]

Some content on the subject of AI is deeply technical, just as is some content on the subject of blockchain, lisp, retro-computing, etc.

But most of what is written about most things (including C, reverse engineering, systems programming, etc.) is not deeply technical.

One problem unique to AI is that “AI” doesn’t mean anything specific…I mean even your question doesn’t distinguish between articles about specific AI technologies, articles generated using LLM’s, “AI” as a marketing feature, AI as an industry, AI as an ideology etc.

dnnddidiej•1h ago
For Go in particular: the docs. Gophercon videos.

In general good conference then Youtube. Even if old e.g. strangeloop. There is Fosdem etc.

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