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I'm taking a break
2 months ago
- The author is experiencing burnout from writing weekly software essays.
- Writing time has increased from an afternoon to two or three days per post.
- The author is taking a break from Computer Things for the rest of the year.
- There may be occasional announcements or short newsletters, but no weekly cadence until 2026.
- The author thanks readers for their support.
How I (Accidentally) Started a Newsletter
2 months ago
- The newsletter began as a series of video demos proving AI tools work, but evolved into essays and reflections.
- Grew from zero to 1,828 subscribers and 256,000 views in 2025, with multiple posts reaching the front page of Hacker News.
- Key viral posts include 'Introducing MonkeysPaw', 'MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System', and 'Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet'.
- The content shifted from live demos to philosophical discussions about AI and programming, such as 'Safe is What We Call Things Later'.
- Plans for 2026 include sharing more complete products and lessons from moving beyond 'it works on my machine' to real-world applications.
- The writer expresses gratitude to subscribers and plans to continue building and sharing unusual projects.
Ik heb nu een nieuwsbrief - Bert Hubert's writings
2 months ago
- The author launched a newsletter due to popular demand, with 248 spontaneous subscribers.
- The newsletter is sent only when there is news, such as new posts, talks, or parliamentary questions.
- The newsletter runs on its own server, uses no cookies or trackers, and is open source.
- The author also wrote about this in the Cloud Kootwijk newsletter.
April 2020 gwern.net newsletter
2 months ago
- April 2020 edition of the gwern.net newsletter is published.
- It follows the previous March 2020 newsletter.
- Readers are directed to the canonical gwern.net version.
May Gwern.net Newsletter
2 months ago
- Gwern.net newsletter compiles links on various topics.
- Topics include anime GAN updates, AI scaling, GPT-3 discussion, and a book review.
- The GPT-3 discussion underwent extensive editing and expansion; readers should refer to the canonical newsletter version.
June gwern.net newsletter
2 months ago
- Gwern.net published three new pages or essays in June 2020.
- Newsletter includes links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
- The canonical edition is available on gwern.net website.
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter
2 months ago
- The August 2020 issue of the gwern.net newsletter features an essay on sidenotes.
- It includes links covering human competence and efficient computing or hardware overhangs.
- The newsletter does not include any reviews.
- Readers are directed to the canonical on-site edition of the newsletter for full content.
- There are no blog posts in this edition.
September 2020 News
2 months ago
- September 2020 gwern.net newsletter published.
- Contains links on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and AI scaling.
- Contains links on psychiatric disorders.
- No reviews are included.
- No posts in this newsletter.
November newsletter
2 months ago
- Links on deep learning and genomics scaling
- Dark mode rewrite of the site
- One essay published
- One opera review of Wagner's 'The Ring' cycle
December newsletter
2 months ago
- The December 2020 Gwern.net newsletter covers AI and technology topics.
- A major new site feature introduced is fully-generalized recursive popups.
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
2 months ago
- Gwern.net launched two new site features: mobile 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups.
- AI research highlights include multimodal neurons in CLIP (Goh et al. 2021), evolving RL algorithms, and SEER self-supervised pretraining on 1 billion images.
- Genetics: GWAS identifies 50 new eye color loci; wealth inheritance remains difficult across generations.
- Psychology studies: working memory training shows no transfer to intelligence; real-time dialogue with dreamers during REM sleep achieved.
- Critiques: COVID vaccine trial delays due to perceived ethical concerns despite public support; vaping moral panic over THC adulterants misattributed to nicotine.
Open-Sourcing Booklet
2 months ago
- The author built a smart newsletter for Moonlight's community, which had ten times more weekly active users than the website, highlighting the power of asynchronous communication.
- Booklet was created as a newsletter-first community software, coded in Ruby on Rails, using OpenAI's GPT-3 to summarize conversations into a daily digest.
- Booklet hosted various communities but faced challenges with spam and low adoption beyond the author's own communities, leading to its shutdown.
- The Booklet code is now open-sourced under MIT license, supporting Solo and Multiuser modes, with Docker and Render deployment options.
- The author hopes others will adopt Booklet's AI summarization techniques, emphasizing that newsletters often have more users than websites and should be prioritized.
Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators
2 months ago
- Matthew Encina is a content creator, creative director, and educator from Los Angeles, CA.
- He runs a free weekly newsletter established in 2020, featuring desk setup tours from designers, founders, and builders, sent every Saturday.
- The text lists various professionals, including designers from Prague, co-founders, tech creators, software engineers, marketers, and entrepreneurs from locations like Virginia, New York, Austin, and South Carolina.
Data Science Weekly – Issue 658
3 months ago
- Data Science Weekly newsletter #659 from June 26, 2026, curated by Hannah & Sebastian, covers Data Science, AI, ML, Data Visualization, and ML/Data Engineering topics with editor's picks, articles, and community polls.
- Editor's picks include an article on colors beyond digital display, using Bradley-Terry model for dog treat preferences, and generative AI creating optimized burgers for taste, sustainability, and nutrition.
- Notable articles discuss open-source ATS scoring resumes variably, underrated data science skills, AI's role in data science, vibe coding vs. engineering, regression coefficient issues, and tools like Rust tensor stacks, Typst graphics, geo-experiment benchmarks, and CUDA kernel processes.

newsletter

I'm taking a break

How I (Accidentally) Started a Newsletter

Ik heb nu een nieuwsbrief - Bert Hubert's writings

April 2020 gwern.net newsletter

May Gwern.net Newsletter

June gwern.net newsletter

August 2020 gwern.net newsletter

September 2020 News

November newsletter

December newsletter

March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

Open-Sourcing Booklet

Show HN: Explore the Workspaces of Modern Creators

Data Science Weekly – Issue 658