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I've been doing something similar with https://greatreads.dev/.
It's mostly focused on tech-related blogs, though. A place to find good articles from fellow developers.
There are some extra features on top of it. Like semantic search, remixing rss feeds into a single one are some of my favorites.
Hacker News is mostly anything tech related. That are links from news websites, github projects and etc.
My project is just for reading individual blog posts from fellow developers. There is also a lot of filtering capabilities as well.
Working on https://greatreads.dev/ A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs.
Always on the look for new sources to be added. If you have a blog or read any that you want to recommend. Just let me know.
Working on https://greatreads.dev/ A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs. Right now, I'm building a submission form for people to submit new sources.
There is also a way to search for articles using vectors, it's called "Semantic Search". So basically you can ask, for example, "Postgresql and how to best optimize it." and it would search for articles touching that subject, or at least related to it.
Wondering about the best way I can add a weekly newsletter built on top of the content currently being ingested, and still looking for more sources to add to the database (let me know if you have any good recommendations).
I'm using a Postgres database. So when articles are ingested, I use the Gemini Embedding model (they have a great free tier) and save that in a vector column that is used later to do the search.
It’s honestly a bit of a pain. I’m using a library to help parse different formats, but there are many custom cases to handle. Dates are a good example. I’m parsing more than a dozen formats, and there’s no real pattern in how sites display their published dates. Some blogs even use unusual formats that aren’t common anywhere else.
I try to avoid altering the original content as much as possible. I do need to sanitize and adjust parts of it to produce clean text on my site, but I’m careful not to change anything in a way that misrepresents the source. Only a few short phrases appear on GreatReads, and users cannot read the full article without visiting the original source.
Good catch, something is definitely not right there. I'll take a look.
Working on https://greatreads.dev/ A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs. Right now, I'm building a submission form for people to submit new sources.
There is also a way to search for articles using vectors, it's called "Semantic Search". So basically you can ask, for example, "Postgresql and how to best optimize it." and it would search for articles touching that subject, or at least related to it.
Wondering about the best way I can add a weekly newsletter built on top of the content currently being ingested, and still looking for more sources to add to the database (let me know if you have any good recommendations).
Working on https://greatreads.dev/
A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs. Right now, I'm building a submission form for people to submit new sources.
There is also a way to search for articles using vectors, it's called "Semantic Search". So basically you can ask, for example, "Postgresql and how to best optimize it." and it would search for articles touching that subject, or at least related to it.
I've been slowly adding new sources to the website. Any suggestions would be great. It has about 300 sources at the moment.
That's pretty cool. I also have a "random article" button at the top right, which is very fun to use. I've discovered a lot of great content by clicking on that button.
Working on https://greatreads.dev/
A place to find great blog articles by regular folks related to dev/tech world.
Wondering about the best way I can add a weekly newsletter built on top of the content currently being ingested and still looking for more sources to add to the database (let me know if you have any good recommendations).
Still working on https://greatreads.dev/
Essentially, a platform to access articles from developer blogs.
I've been slowly adding new sources to the website. Any suggestions would be great.
I'm considering adding a feature that allows searching using vectors. Basically, you could search for something like "How to make sure your PostgreSQL database is configured correctly". And it would return the closest articles using vector search compared to your query. Is this something that sounds interesting?
Hi Blake,
Yes, the form to submit blogs is one of those last-mile polish that I need to work on.
I've added your blog as a source. Very cool concept.
I've been building a website to find great blog posts related to the programming/tech world called https://greatreads.dev/
There are a lot of things that I still want to polish, but it's in a usable state already, and I'm very happy with it.
If someone takes a look and has any suggestions, feedback, or ideas, they are all welcome.
Also, any suggestions for blogs that could be added as sources is appreciated.
Could you elaborate a bit on how that works? Does it need any changes in how you use Claude?
It seems that it doesn't work with WSL 2 yet. Any plans to support it?
Hey Kyle, your work on the Hacker Newsletter is awesome. Thanks for that and for the kind words regarding The Gaming Pub. I hope I grow the newsletter to be as big as yours in someday.
I've been a subscriber for the hacker newsletter [1] for years and it does a great job of curating content from this website.
This inspired me to create The Gaming Pub [2] which is a similar kind of curated newsletter but for gaming content.
I believe newsletters like that are a great way to find interesting stuff.
Working on a series of interviews with gamers about how the hobby is part of their lives, called Unmuted [1]. It's been awesome to interview people from different backgrounds and see how gaming has influenced them.
It's the first original piece of content for a newsletter of curated gaming content that I've been running for more than five years now, called The Gaming Pub [2].
[1] https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/ [2]: https://www.thegamingpub.com/
I've been running a gaming content curated newsletter [1] for 5 years now, and although sometimes it's a little too much work to handle it, I enjoy curating the content, and the idea of people waiting every Friday for the newsletter has kept me going.
Now I've started a series of interviews with gamers called Unmuted [2], and it gave me some extra motivation to continue to find new people to be interviewed, which is not an easy task.
As a programmer I always had the idea of a side project involving code, but at the end of the day, I don't have the fortitude to code something, and the newsletter has been a great side project to have.
[1] https://thegamingpub.com/ [2] - https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/unmuted-004-macy-inter...
I have been curating a gaming newsletter for a little over 5 years now called The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/
This year, I started my first original content, Unmuted, which is a series of interviews with regular gamers about how gaming is part of their lives and their gaming habits. It's going pretty good so far with 2 interviews done. This is the latest one: https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/unmuted-002-mateus-kar...
The hardest part is sourcing the people to be interviewed.
Still mostly working on my gaming-curated newsletter The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/
It's similar to Hacker Newsletter where I pick the most important news, features, reviews, etc of the week and send that every Friday. The gaming world has a lot of stuff going on and I always found that there was a missing newsletter to curate the important stuff from all the noise.
The challenge at the moment is growing it, I've been doing it for 5 years now and still haven't found a way to increase the number of subscribers, they come mostly from newsletter directories and referrals I would guess.
I don't think you guys understand the reach of chatGPT. I live in Brazil and I was in line at a restaurant when I saw an older lady (around 60~70 years old) chatting with chatGPT on her smartphone. That's when I realized that chatGPT burst the bubble and by a lot.
We in the tech bubble know all the competitors and all the other products related to AI, but I guarantee that 98% of the rest of the world just knows chatGPT and some of them use it, even people who struggle to turn the Bluetooth on/off.
It's really hard to replicate this, I'm pretty sure this lady will never have the Claude or DeepSeek app installed on her phone, but she will be using chatGPT in the meantime.
I'm going to plug my personal project here which is a weekly curated list of gaming content called The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com
I heavily use RSS to curate most of the content, and I believe it's one of the best ways to get news and articles without the bias of an algorithm.
I love your newsletter and created https://www.thegamingpub.com/ heavily inspired by it. It's basically the hacker newsletter but for the gaming world.
Any tips on how to acquire more subs? I have been slowwwwly getting subs organically. I even have some patreons now.
I have a curated gaming content-related newsletter called The Gaming Pub (thegamingpub.com) and most of my initial users came from promoting on Reddit on relevant subreddits. However, most of them do not allow self-promotion, so it's not the best place to be honest.
I had a little bit of luck as well that someone shortly after I started the newsletter mentioned it here on Hacker News when on an Ask HN for cool newsletters that they followed and this brought a bunch of users as well at the beginning of my newsletter.
Today I barely do any active marketing for it, I believe mostly comes organically from word of mouth and also from newsletter directories/aggregators.
Since this became a big topic here about gaming which is rare, I'll plug side project of mine.
I publish a weekly gaming newsletter called The Gaming Pub (https://www.thegamingpub.com/) similar to the Hacker Newsletter. I curated an assortment of links with the most important news and other topics from the gaming world (I'll include this link in tomorrow's issue).
If you are interested and don't have the time to catch up with a bunch of gaming-related content (news, reviews, articles, etc) take a look at my newsletter, it might be something that is a good fit for you.
Thanks!
This looks nice.
Does this work for the international market, like Brazil for example? Does it track fixed-income types of investments like government bonds, etc?
Yeap. I had the same feeling. If he never mentioned that he worked with Rails before I would understand not being familiar with the Rails concept of the "New" and "Edit" actions, but he mentions a lot of time throughout the video that he worked with multiple Rails backends and he doesn't even have familiarity with the most simple concept of Rails Controllers and Routes?
I felt that he has a bit of an agenda against DHH and I guess that's why he thrashes Rails as much as he did on that video.
Do you need to take care daily? Or is it something that can de done once a week for example?