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Gwern.net Newsletter

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Gwern.net Newsletter is a personal blog at gwern.substack.com about ai and science. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as the Substack edition of Gwern's monthly newsletter of Gwern.net updates and links, which is free; the author also has a Patreon. One commenter calls the newsletter excellent.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Latest gwern.net updates, interesting links, and reviews. Click to read Gwern.net Newsletter,

Most-linked posts?

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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-16
  2. Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. Gwern has a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/gwern And a Substack for his newsletter: https://gwern.substack.com/ (AFAIK this is free though)

    Comment linking /

    on “The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free”
  2. Submitted Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. exolymph · 2021-02-07Recommends
    I'm always surprised by what makes it to the front page (this link is currently there). h/t Gwern's excellent newsletter: • https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2021/01 • https://gwern.substack.com/p/jan-2021-gwernnet-newsletter

    Comment linking /p/jan-2021-gwernnet-newsletter

    on “Why We Fight over Fiction”
  4. > Can anyone recommend good writing on Substack to follow? https://nathantankus.substack.com/ https://oversharing.substack.com/ https://mattstoller.substack.com/ https://sirota.substack.com/ https://gwern.substack.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Legal Support for Substack Writers”
  5. • my blog: https://taylor.town/feed.xml • lots of blogs with RSS feeds: https://ooh.directory --- • https://www.benkuhn.net/index.xml • https://ciechanow.ski/atom.xml • https://schmud.de/feed.rss • https://craigmod.com/index.xml • https://escapingflatland.substack.com/feed • https://gwern.substack.com/feed (inactive?) • https://www.lesswrong.com/feed.xml?view=curated-rss • https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/feeds/all…

    Comment linking /feed

    on “Ask HN: Please please share your personally curated long RSS subscriptions list?”

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