Hacker News with Generative AI: Substack

Security Teams Fail (lcamtuf.substack.com)
I spent 25 years working in information security. I published research, authored books, and led large security teams for publicly-traded companies. That said, when I kicked off this Substack in 2022, I wanted to try something different — so with few exceptions, I shied away from infosec punditry.

Cybersecurity, Information Security, Substack, Opinion

10 points by zdw 9 days ago | 1 comments

Worthwhile Lives for Sensitive Young Men (librarianofcelaeno.substack.com)
I was very grateful for the opportunity to speak with Johann Kurtz and Dave Greene the other day and for the chance to hear their views expounded more directly, as well as to elaborate on my own. Johann Kurtz has offered an afterword and I thought I might do so as well.

Philosophy, Identity, Masculinity, Substack

13 points by janandonly 10 days ago | 4 comments

Ghosts in the Shadow of the Mouse (fiddlersgreene.substack.com)
You can't go home again, but you can never really leave it.

Nostalgia, Writing, Substack

10 points by paulpauper 10 days ago | 6 comments

A luminous, brave, and unputdownable article about blurbs (countercraft.substack.com)
Blurbs. Can’t live with them, can’t live a luminous tour-de-force life of tender-hearted lyricism and soul-nourishing honesty without them.

Writing, Storytelling, Substack, Online Publishing

8 points by benbreen 18 days ago | 2 comments

The quiet rebellion of a little life (caitlynrichardson.substack.com)
hello.

Personal Growth, Life, Substack

78 points by durmonski 32 days ago | 129 comments

Ask HN: How do you improve your writing? (ycombinator.com)
I've been writing more and more on Substack. I started with simple Haikus and just expanded with longer posts before settling into this mix of poetry, mental health and my software career.<p>I finally did this by letting go of my perfectionism but I don't want to let go of improvement.<p>Are you a someone who writes on your own blog?

Writing, Blogging, Substack, Mental Health, Perfectionism

49 points by navs 61 days ago | 58 comments

Substack Is at It Again (kottke.org)
Marisa Kabas correctly asserts that Substack’s latest announcement reaffirms their status as a publication (and not a platform) and as a place that will publish disinformation and hate under the guise of “free speech”.

Substack, Free Speech, Journalism, Disinformation

5 points by Tomte 65 days ago | 2 comments

Regarding – and, Well, Against – Substack (daringfireball.net)

Substack, Blogging, Content Creation

4 points by everybodyknows 73 days ago | 0 comments

Always. Be. Blogging (natesilver.net)
With a staff of just two people, Silver Bulletin is now the #3 Substack newsletter in Substack’s largest category, U.S. Politics. We even briefly hit #2 during the election peak.

Politics, Blogging, Substack, News

19 points by nsoonhui 89 days ago | 0 comments

Don't Call It a Substack. (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.

Substack, Content Creation, Email Marketing, Digital Media

43 points by bookofjoe 92 days ago | 26 comments

Don't Call It a Substack (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.

Substack, Email Marketing, Content Creation, Digital Media, Ownership

15 points by marban 93 days ago | 3 comments

Don't Call It a Substack (anildash.com)
Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it.

Substack, Email Marketing, Content Creation, Business, Social Media

16 points by tobr 94 days ago | 0 comments

Who Do Children Belong To? (lyz.substack.com)
Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

Children, Politics, Social Issues, Journalism, Substack

5 points by herbertl 115 days ago | 5 comments

Losers Average Losers (quantian.substack.com)
This is Paul Tudor Jones, for those of you who are unaware.

Finance, Investing, Substack

7 points by paulpauper 118 days ago | 1 comments

The Atlantic Did Me Dirty (cmsthomas.substack.com)
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the reading load. She explained that she was working on an article that would explore the problem of reading stamina and asked me to share my experiences in the high school classroom.

Education, Journalism, Substack

90 points by makeitdouble 136 days ago | 248 comments

The survival skills of Helena Valero (woodfromeden.substack.com)
One of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century was a dirt-poor mestizo woman called Helena Valero. After having read the one and only book in English about her, I'm convinced of that. Her insights into a primitive society is worth more than that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple reason: Helena was there for real, as a member of those societies. She didn't only study stone age life. She lived it.

Anthropology, History, Substack, Biography

91 points by paulpauper 138 days ago | 34 comments

I spent 5 hours learning how ClickHouse built their internal data warehouse (vutr.substack.com)
My name is Vu Trinh, and I am a data engineer.

Data Warehousing, Databases, ClickHouse, Data Engineering, Substack

47 points by markhneedham 150 days ago | 5 comments

Sucks.. In a Good Way (atomic14.substack.com)
Robin Reiter from Robins Tools was kind enough to send me Pixel Pump - and it’s great!

Tools, Reviews, Substack

38 points by iamflimflam1 158 days ago | 3 comments

Glass Beads (outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Fiction, Substack, Writing

18 points by honoredb 177 days ago | 2 comments

The Mystics of Progress (2023) (isaacyoung.substack.com)