Hacker News with Generative AI: Blogging

Crémieux, J'accuse (dynomight.net)
I don’t know how to internet, but I know you’re supposed to get into beefs. In the nearly five years this blog has existed, the closest I’ve come was once politely asking Slime Mold Time Mold, “Hello, would you like to have a beef?” They said, “That sounds great but we’re really busy right now, sorry.”

Blogging, Internet Culture, Humor

5 points by gregorymichael 15 hours ago | 0 comments

Why I Blog and How I Automate it (2023) (ryanwwest.com)
I’m interested in consuming information in order to create new information (one of my motivations for pursuing a Ph.D.). I generally read articles/papers or watch videos, and then create papers/articles/code and have discussions as a result.

Blogging, Automation, Information Consumption, Knowledge Creation

41 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 6 comments

How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare (ingau.me)
I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer.

Blogging, Personal Productivity, Technology, Open Source

330 points by ingav 3 days ago | 232 comments

Ask HN: Where are people sharing their blogs these days? (ycombinator.com)
I really like blogs, and I've started blogging again like this past week. I want to share what I write but get some nice reading lists going to.

Blogging, Communities, Social Media

30 points by leonheld 3 days ago | 24 comments

Hell: Shell Scripting Haskell Dialect (chrisdone.github.io)
This is a copy of the script that generates my blog.

Shell Scripting, Haskell, Programming Languages, Blogging, Software

12 points by behnamoh 4 days ago | 0 comments

RSS/Atom feed best practise (kevincox.ca)
These are some technical tips for publishing a blog. These have nothing to do with good content, just how to share that content. The recommendations are roughly in order of importance and have rationale for why they are that important.

RSS, Blogging, Web Development, Technical Tips

10 points by fanf2 14 days ago | 0 comments

Like cursor, but for blogging: a weekend project (maximepeabody.com)
Recently, I've started writing a blog on my personal website, on topics related to AI.

Blogging, AI, Web Development, Personal Projects

38 points by peab 18 days ago | 54 comments

Ask HN: How to write better tech blogs (ycombinator.com)
I have a blog but it seems most people who are with my content hardly like it.

Writing, Blogging, Technology, Content Marketing

13 points by sonderotis 23 days ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack? (ycombinator.com)
Question says it all - I'm curious what the state of the art is for a community like HN (that, intuitively, wouldn't just start an eg. Substack).

Blogging, Self-Hosting, Web Development

12 points by krrishd 25 days ago | 29 comments

How to write blog posts that developers read (refactoringenglish.com)
I recently spoke to a developer who tried blogging but gave up because nobody was reading his posts. I checked out his blog, and it was immediately obvious why he didn’t have any readers.

Writing, Blogging, Developers, Content Creation

603 points by rbanffy 29 days ago | 154 comments

How to Write Blog Posts That Developers Read (refactoringenglish.com)
I recently spoke to a developer who tried blogging but gave up because nobody was reading his posts. I checked out his blog, and it was immediately obvious why he didn’t have any readers.

Writing, Blogging, Developers, Content Creation

8 points by mtlynch 30 days ago | 6 comments

The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News (refactoringenglish.com)
The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News

Hacker News, Blogging, Personal Websites, Lists, Rankings

486 points by sharjeelsayed 32 days ago | 128 comments

Blogging like it's 1987: A blog post from my old text terminal (pointinthecloud.com)
I'm writing this on a black and yellow screen that is 38 years old, and I'm really enjoying it.

Nostalgia, Technology, Blogging, Retro Computing

8 points by ftvkyo 35 days ago | 0 comments

Ghost connects its newsletters to the open web (theverge.com)
Newsletter platform Ghost switched on its fediverse connectivity this week, allowing bloggers to share their works across the various social platforms that support the open ActivityPub protocol.

Open Source, Social Media, Newsletters, Blogging, Fediverse

4 points by ZacnyLos 37 days ago | 0 comments

Wherein I Explain Why Emacs Is the Best Tool for WordPress (ingebrigtsen.no)
When I look at popular tools for writing blog posts, they all seem to require an ungodly amount of work to get common things done.

WordPress, Blogging, Emacs, Software, Productivity

3 points by signa11 40 days ago | 0 comments

Meta question: What is the best way to post blogs these days? (ycombinator.com)
Meta question: What is the best way to post blogs these days?

Blogging, Content Creation, Digital Marketing

4 points by ckl1810 45 days ago | 1 comments

My Digital Garden Philosophy (emgoto.com)
If you spend time in tech blogging circles, you may have come across the concept of a digital garden, which offers an alternative for how you publish your blog online.

Digital Gardens, Blogging, Personal Websites, Content Creation

3 points by previnder 47 days ago | 0 comments

This blog post passed unit tests (sealambda.com)
I’m reading a book called “Writing for Developers”,1 which has some great advice on writing blog posts that get read.

Writing, Blogging, Software Development

57 points by gioazzi 48 days ago | 17 comments

Why I choose Lua for this blog (andregarzia.com)
This blog used to run using with a stack based on Racket using Pollen and lots of hacks on top of it. At some point I realised that my setup was working against me. The moving parts and workflow I created added too much friction to keep my blog active. That happened mostly because it was a static generator trying to behave as if it was dynamic website with an editing interface.

Programming Languages, Blogging, Web Development

14 points by soapdog 49 days ago | 0 comments

How do you process the news? (alexschroeder.ch)
I’m looking at the blog and noticing that I haven’t posted much. It’s hard.

Journalism, Blogging, Content Creation

56 points by surprisetalk 51 days ago | 64 comments

Reflections on 25 Years of Blogging (interconnected.org)
I started blogging here precisely 25 years ago on 19 February 2000. I was 22 when I started and I am now 47.

Blogging, Anniversary, Personal Reflections

18 points by genmon 60 days ago | 12 comments

It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI (gilesthomas.com)
My post about blogging as writing the tutorial that you wished you'd found really took off on Hacker News. There were a lot of excellent comments, but one thing kept coming up: what's the point in blogging if people are using ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek to spoon-feed them answers? Who, apart from the AIs, will read what you write?

Blogging, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Content Creation

333 points by gpjt 60 days ago | 223 comments

The benefits of learning in public (gilesthomas.com)
While laid up with a minor but annoying medical issue over the last week, I've blogged more than usual. I've also spent some time reading through the archives here, and come to the conclusion that the best posts I've made -- at least from my perspective -- follow a similar pattern. They're posts where I've been learning how to do something, or how something worked, and presented what I've found as a summary, often as a tutorial.

Learning, Blogging, Education, Knowledge Sharing

311 points by gpjt 61 days ago | 97 comments

Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog (beej.us)
Comments powered by Mastodon!

Social Media, Blogging, Mastodon

195 points by ingve 61 days ago | 59 comments

Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your terminal (ycombinator.com)
Hello HN! I believe some of you might have come across this pretty interesting post about discovering IndieWeb blogs, one blog at a time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43139953>

IndieWeb, Blogging, Web Development, Community, Hacker News

54 points by susam 62 days ago | 12 comments

Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time (indieblog.page)
This website lets you randomly explore the IndieWeb. Simply click the button below and you will be redirected to a random post from a personal blog.

IndieWeb, Blogging, Web Development, Personal Websites

289 points by vinhnx 63 days ago | 84 comments

Just Write (chasingbrains.co)
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.

Content Creation, Blogging, Search

108 points by marksully 63 days ago | 40 comments

Replacing Hugo with a Custom Kotlin Blog Engine (cekrem.github.io)
Don’t get me wrong - Hugo (the stuff that I’m currently using to drive this site) is great. It’s blazing fast, feature-rich, and battle-tested. But as a developer who’s been diving deep into Clean Architecture lately (as you might have noticed from my recent posts), I’ve been itching to apply these principles to a real project. And what better way to learn than by potentially over-engineering my own blog engine?

Software, Web Development, Kotlin, Blogging

3 points by thunderbong 73 days ago | 0 comments

No longer writing my own damn HTML (claytonwramsey.com)
I’ve (mostly) given up on hand-writing HTML for my personal blog.