HackerBlogs: the 9.4K blogs that Hacker News people keep sharing

Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, writes essays on startups, programming, wealth, and independent thinking.

Top post: Do Things that Don't Scale

Cloudflare's engineering and policy team posts on network infrastructure, security incidents, DDoS attacks, and internet protocols.

Top post: We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

Joel Spolsky writes about software development, management, and running a software company, with many essays from the early 2000s.

Top post: Victory Lap for Ask Patents

Techdirt, founded by Mike Masnick, covers technology policy, free speech, copyright, and Section 230 law.

Top post: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

A community blog on rationality, AI risk, and self-improvement, where members post long essays and discussion.

Top post: The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

A group blog on technology, digital rights, culture, and oddities, with Cory Doctorow as a frequent contributor.

Top post: W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and cryptographer, writes about security, cryptography, privacy, and the policy around them.

Top post: New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

Mozilla's official blog, with Firefox announcements, browser policy, privacy positions, and company news.

Top post: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

Google's official corporate blog, carrying product announcements, AI news, and policy statements from the company.

Top post: Gemini 3

Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes about programming, software culture, and the web.

Top post: The Principle of Least Power (2007)

Scott Alexander wrote long essays on psychiatry, culture, politics, and rationality on this blog, which later became Astral Codex Ten.

Top post: I Am Deleting the Blog

John Gruber writes about Apple, technology, and design, and created the Markdown format.

Top post: Facebook is an attack on the open web

GitHub's official blog, covering product updates, security notices, platform availability, and developer features.

Top post: YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

Microsoft employees' blogs on MSDN cover Windows, Visual Studio, C++, and C# internals, including Raymond Chen's and Eric Lippert's posts.

Top post: Why I Left Google

Gwern Branwen writes long, heavily researched essays on AI, statistics, nootropics, technology economics, and other subjects.

Top post: Life Improvements Since the 1990s

Martin Fowler writes about software architecture, refactoring, microservices, and agile practice, with long-lived reference articles.

Top post: Monolith First (2015)

Brian Krebs, a former Washington Post reporter, investigates cybercrime, data breaches, and fraud.

Top post: Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

Scientific American hosts blogs by various writers on neuroscience, physics, health, psychology, and science and society.

Top post: “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

The Startup was a Medium publication with articles from many authors on programming, startups, and technology.

Top post: “User engagement” is code for “addiction”

Dan Luu, a software engineer, writes data-driven posts on performance, latency, hardware, and how tech companies work.

Top post: We only hire the trendiest

Google's official corporate blog, covering product launches, policy statements, and company announcements from executives and engineers.

Top post: G is for Google

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) writes about software businesses, salary negotiation, Japan, and finance.

Top post: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, blogs about startups, investing, and technology trends.

Top post: Venture capital returns

Stack Overflow's company blog covers developer surveys, language trends, community policy, engineering practice, and the company's own infrastructure.

Top post: How Dwarf Fortress is built

Google's official blog for web developers, covering Chrome features, web standards, extensions, and DevTools.

Top post: "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

Mozilla engineers explain web technologies and Firefox internals, including WebAssembly, CSS engines, and rendering.

Top post: How Firefox Got Fast Again

Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist, writes about quantum computing, computational complexity, and related questions.

Top post: Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling

The company blog of 37signals, makers of Basecamp, on bootstrapped business, product design, and their books.

Top post: Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks

Twitter's official engineering and corporate blog, covering infrastructure, product changes, and moderation decisions.

Top post: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

Simon Willison, a developer and co-creator of Django, writes about LLMs, prompt injection, and AI-assisted programming.

Top post: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input

The blog of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), where founders write about running a profitable software company and startup culture.

Top post: The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks

Bret Victor, an interface designer and researcher, writes essays and builds interactive explorations on programming, design, and learning.

Top post: Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

A site documenting the architectures of large websites and the lessons from scaling them.

Top post: A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS

Ben Thompson analyzes technology business strategy, platforms, and media, with a paid subscription for much of it.

Top post: Apple’s Mistake

JetBrains' company blog, covering IDE and Kotlin updates, product history, and statements on events like the war in Ukraine.

Top post: Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

Meta's corporate newsroom publishes announcements on products, layoffs, AI models, research, and policy and content moderation changes.

Top post: Open source AI is the path forward

Microsoft's official Windows blog, with announcements on Windows releases, Edge, developer tools, and Insider builds.

Top post: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

Jamie Zawinski, a veteran programmer of Netscape and Mozilla fame, writes on software, the web, and his own projects.

Top post: Watch a VC use my name to sell a con

Economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok post short takes and links on economics, policy, and current affairs.

Top post: “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York

Scott Alexander writes long essays on medicine, science, politics, forecasting, and culture, continuing his earlier SlateStarCodex blog.

Top post: Heuristics that almost always work

Steve Yegge, a longtime programmer at Amazon and Google, wrote long, humorous essays on languages, software culture, and hiring.

Top post: Kotlin Is Better

Venkatesh Rao writes long essays on organizations, culture, technology, and how people make sense of modern life.

Top post: The Daredevil Camera

DeepMind's official blog, announcing research results such as WaveNet, AlphaFold, AlphaCode, and MuZero.

Top post: AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Tim Urban writes illustrated, long-form explainers on topics like AI, procrastination, the Fermi paradox, Elon Musk, and politics.

Top post: How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft engineer, writes about Windows history, API design quirks, and low-level programming.

Top post: Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker

Philip Guo's page at MIT CSAIL hosts research papers, essays, and old mailing-list posts on programming languages, vision, and AI.

Top post: “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

The Daily WTF collects reader-submitted stories of bad code, failed projects, and absurd workplace decisions in software.

Top post: The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

The Signal Foundation's blog announces features and explains design choices for the Signal encrypted messenger, including privacy technology previews.

Top post: Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

Sophos's Naked Security blog explains security incidents, bugs, and best practices in plain terms, covering SSL, passwords, and certificates.

Top post: Serious Chrome zero-day

Microsoft's Tech Community hosts official posts from product teams on Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365, Edge, and enterprise administration.

Top post: Postgres IDE in VS Code

Discord's engineering and company blog covers its infrastructure, including Rust, Elixir, and message storage, along with policy and privacy updates.

Top post: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

The WebKit project's blog from Apple and contributors covers the browser engine behind Safari, including features, tracking prevention, and JIT work.

Top post: Face ID and Touch ID for the Web

Quote Investigator is a research blog by Garson O'Toole that traces the true origins of famous quotations and sayings.

Top post: “Computer science is not about computers”

qntm is the site of a writer who publishes science fiction, essays on software and time zones, and small web projects.

Top post: Lena

ZeroHedge is an anonymously run finance and news site mixing market commentary, macro analysis, and political and conspiracy-leaning content.

Top post: NSA chief who oversaw sweeping domestic phone surveillance joins Amazon board

Tailscale's company blog explains how its mesh VPN works, with deep technical posts on NAT traversal, plus product and pricing updates.

Top post: Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure

Andy Hertzfeld and collaborators tell first-person stories from the development of the original Apple Macintosh in the early 1980s.

Top post: -2000 Lines of Code

The Chromium Blog is Google's official channel for Chrome and Chromium news on extensions, privacy, performance, and web platform changes.

Top post: Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling

Troy Hunt is a security researcher and Microsoft MVP who writes about data breaches, HTTPS, passwords, and the Have I Been Pwned service.

Top post: I got pwned by my cloud costs

Google's Security Blog covers its security research and engineering, including memory safety in Android, Chrome certificate policy, and cryptography.

Top post: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision