alexgotoi

Still working on AI Hacker Newsletter, a weekly newsletter on top of Hacker News, with the most upvoted and discussed links. Currently at 1150 subscribers, started in November 2025. Growth is slow, but my goal is to reach 2000 at the 1-year anniversary mark, so let's see where this goes.

Steady 40-45% open rates (probably normal for such a small and growing newsletter), click rates at 7-8%.

Latest issues just sent today: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=d152ed72-85da-11f1-b364-7d...

I don’t think HN crowd is against AI, this crowd is just more pragmatic than others. They challenge things - in a constructive way most of the times - but this does not mean an anti movement.

I run an AI newsletter on top of HN, I have seen the sentiment from the grass level: I think there is an inflation of Show HN vibecoded products that annoy a lot of people here, but other than that, I think it just pragmatism what comes up.

In 1780, once horse power was way more expensive than a real horse. At least, that’s what my intuition data suggests.

Still sending the weekly AI Hacker Newsletter, a roundup of the best AI links from Hacker News. Is not growing as fast as I hope, I just sent issue #33 to 1057 subscribers.

I believe that newsletter remain the best way of consuming content and will continue to be like this for a long time.

Link to the lastest issue: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=b1c3ff5c-551d-11f1-93cc-49...

You can subscribe here: https://hnxai.eo.page/9h7q4

You we’re already a “warm” candidate.

Because in the last year you responded to Linkedin messages from Recruiters, this boosted your visibility in other recruiters’ searches.

That’s something I think every working person should do: if they get outreach from recruiters, respond to all messages. Maybe even jump on a call/interview.

I run a newsletter on top of Hacker News - basically I make a round up of the best 35-50 links from HN and sent it in a weekly email.

Not always the latest news, since there is a delay between when articles/news are posted here and when I send the email, but for those who don’t have time to stay on HN everyday, might be good.

Here is the latest issue: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=0fa89b02-4478-11f1-a1da-23...

I was about to write the same thing…

This is the worst flex ever, its like going in a vacation and posting about how expensive the flight ticket was.

This newsletter issue marks the 6 months milestone of this newsletter - hard to believe I kept being consintent with sending it.

Thanks! Looked her up, found the archieve of email newsletters of Key Values and it seems that she stopped the site in 2024: https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=2f12805812a2c078784bbfe...

Too bad, it was a nice product.

There were several cheaper than programmers options to automate things, Robot Processing Automation being probably the most known, but it never get the expected traction.

Why (imo)? Senior leaders still like to say: I run a 500 headcount finance EMEA organization for Siemens, I am the Chief People Officer of Meta anf I lead an org of 1000 smart HR pros. Most of their status is still tight to the org headcount.

The jobs come about 70% from the feeds with the paying parters. I pull about 20k jobs their feed, then run my script to select about 100 relevant jobs. The other 30% I get them manually from Linkedin, Indeed, etc. I have alerts on all big sites with some deep filtering.

It took about 2 months to get a constant 100/day average visits, but I had ~5000 connections on Linkedin in the HR space (I work in HR Tech). I also got to 2000 newsletter subs in about 2 months.

My advantage was that I was already active in the HR community, I would need another “me” to build in more industries.

Just subscribed to the shepherd - the Book DNA is pretty cool, it either recommended books that I’ve read or I have on my to read list. What I can’t figure out is how I highlight a book for to be read? Do I need to purchase a membership before being able to do this?

Most of them have out of the box partnerships models. Basically they give me a big xml of jobs, esch job has a price (cpc) specified, and I select the ones applicable to my site (remote). The usual suspects in this space are Adzuna, Jooble, Joblookup, etc.

I’ve been running a job board for remote Human Resources roles since 2019. In 2022 I started generating some revenue by referring traffic to large job aggregators on a cost per click model. I still do everything manually from curating the jobs to daily uploads but it has become a good routine for me. You can see it here: https://www.hrjobsremote.com/ It now grosses around 1,000$ per month on average. Money left after taxes and fixed costs (~650$) I put in a all world index for retirement.

Recently I also started a newsletter built on top of Hacker News that curates a weekly roundup of AI links and the discussions around them. I am not sure whether it will be monetized at some point but that is how I started the job board too. It is a side project to keep me occupied during evenings and weekends. The latest issue is here if you are interested: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=df548fb0-e8b0-11f0-97f9-35...

This looks great and I see it’s potential, but only for startups and 1-2 layers of management. I can’t imagine a scenario where a VP would make a direct request to a dev in a corporation.

You might be talking about this daily newsletter? https://buttondown.com/tech-daily

This is run by the same person who runs https://hackernewsletter.com/, but just checked my email and got today’s issue and the last one was on 2nd of Jan (sent only on week days).

Shameless plugin: I also run a hacker news curated links newsletter, focused on AI threads. If interested, here is the latest issue: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=df548fb0-e8b0-11f0-97f9-35...

The hard part I think it’s attracting users. The jobs section is nice to have, but the users come mostly for the news section, I guess?! i know that’s why I am there. Investing in filtering it’s worth when you have a big list of sort to filter.

Love this project - just registered. I will bookmark and try to be active - we need this in Europe: we have both startups, companies, innovation and awesome people, but we don’t have such an outlet to share these things. Keep up the good work!

This reminded me of James Clear’s: do one pushup. I think all good books about habits are build around this idea, of small tasks that can be sustained, but somehow our brains are still smarter and still find ways to move away.

At any HR conference you go, there are two overused words: AI and Skills.

As of this week, this also applies to Hacker News.

this isn’t talent, but practice

This. Totally agree. Seniority level it’s based on the volume of practice someone has. Period.

* The fundamental challenge in AI for the next 20 years is avoiding extinction.

This reminded me of the Don’t look up movie where they basically gambled with the humans extinction.

LLMs still need to bring clear added value to enterprise and corporate work; otherwise, they remain a geek’s toy.

Big media agencies that claim to use AI rely on strong creative teams who fine-tune prompts and spend weeks doing so. Even then, they don’t fully trust AI to slice long videos into shorter clips for social media.

Heavy administrative functions like HR or Finance still don’t get approval to expose any of their data to LLMs.

What I’m trying to say is that we are still in the early stages of LLM development, and as promising as this looks, it’s still far from delivering the real value that is often claimed.

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Love the “Click to keep avoiding work” - so true!

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