Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
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4 hours ago
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I'm pretty tired of seeing AI-related content everywhere. When I open Hacker News, close to half of the top submissions are AI-related. It's the same on social networks as well.

I miss the times when there was a lot of technical content that took time and mental energy to understand.

Nowadays, it's pretty hard to discover it. On HN, I see that a lot of technical articles don't make it to the front page, so sometimes I just search for them in the submissions. Not only is there less content, but demand for it is also declining. I guess people would rather read another article about LLMs that teaches almost nothing and doesn't exercise their curiosity. It feels sad for me, as a reader and as a writer.

So, are there any other places left where people still care about and share deep technical content? I want to keep exercising my thinking. I've had enough of brain-rotting.

markus_zhang
1 hour ago
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There are a huge number of system programming books. You can also search for system programming topics on HN.
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iefbr14
4 hours ago
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There is probably still a lot out there but with the current state of the ('free') search engines you won't find much. I am painfully reminded of that every time I have to look for a datasheet that is not in my own archive yet.
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bediger4000
1 hour ago
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At least part of the problem is that deep technical content doesn't get upvotes. The next time you see a link to such, note the vote count. It will be small. Note the vote count on some "AI" boosting link. It will be large. Is this Anthropic, Google and OpenAI bots for is it genuine interest?
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merrua
2 hours ago
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rss
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slipknotfan
4 hours ago
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lobste.rs has some stuff
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pseudo-usama
2 hours ago
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lobsters genuinely seems more technical and less hype driven than HN these days
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