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Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?

What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?

The less mainstream or well known the better.

Edit:

I'll provide some of my own;

http://blog.asmartbear.com/archives

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/

^Mostly of entertainment value but he says some interesting things from time to time.

http://rs.io/articles

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Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by thousandtyone on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:15PM (#8770255)
Seth Godin has a blog that's short and sweet: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/ is interesting when it comes to career advice.

http://www.codinghorror.com - technology related.

http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/ - another smart blogger and not very mainstream.

http://randsinrepose.com/ - writer of managing humans. has an impressive blog.

Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by slashnull on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:46PM (#8770365)
I'm completely addicted to rationalist blogs these days (for better or for worse).

Currently bingeing http://slatestarcodex.com, and many, many of the blogs he links to.

In a completely different category, I enjoy war reporting blogs for a really down-to-earth, naturalistic (and arguably overly militaristic) point of view of geopolitic issues.

- The War Nerd (http://pando.com/author/garybrecher/)

- War is Boring (https://medium.com/war-is-boring)

Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by JacobEdelman on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:02PM (#8770185)
Really smart people I know like www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ . It's quite popular on HN. I also recommend https://news.ycombinator.com/ for interesting articles :P
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by endrebak on Thursday December 18, 2014 @10:44PM (#8771015)
Steve Hsu: http://infoproc.blogspot.com Example post title: "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing"

Razib Khan: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/ Example post title: "Most Horse Lineages Are in Heaven"

Gregory Cochran: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/ Example post:

"It is easier to develop a phobia about snakes than electricity or carbon monoxide, probably because we have built in neurological mechanism that confer that propensity.

Likely most animals have a similar propensity to develop a fear of fire: or it might come automatically. If there was such a fear-of-fire mechanism, we have lost it: and dogs have as well. If this is correct, one could learn about this hypothetical mechanism by comparing dogs and wolves."

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These are heavily biased towards population genetics and quantitative genetics. Would appreciate suggestions for blogs of smart people writing about molecular biology.

Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by unclesaamm on Thursday December 18, 2014 @09:41PM (#8770879)
Not tech, or even a famous figure, but I still check the blog of my history professor from college: https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/

I have a friend who wrote poetry on the side and never publicized it. These poems are so good that I still check it every other day, even though no new posts have been made in maybe a year.

Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by avni000 on Thursday December 18, 2014 @08:07PM (#8770656)
From the VC space: Fred Wilson's AVC: http://avc.com Ben Horowitz Ben's Blog: http://www.bhorowitz.com Paul Graham's Essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by avni000 on Thursday December 18, 2014 @10:56PM (#8771039)
edit: for lesser known, I would say: - Whitney Johnson's blog on disrupting yourself: http://whitneyjohnson.com - Occam's Razor on data driven marketing: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/ - Copyblogger (probably in the well known bucket but still really good): http://www.copyblogger.com/blog/
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by RickS on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @12:39PM (#8793665)
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by koberstein on Thursday December 18, 2014 @08:04PM (#8770643)
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by lazyjones on Friday December 19, 2014 @12:18AM (#8771210)
Philip Greenspun wrote really interesting things about web development in the mid-/late 90's. Nowdays he writes about more general issues, still always worth reading:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/

Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by zzzzz_ on Saturday December 20, 2014 @04:24PM (#8777980)
http://jamesaltucher.com... but I think he's "jumped" the shark recently.
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by adam419 on Saturday December 20, 2014 @06:37PM (#8778377)
How do you figure?
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by duncan_bayne on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:25PM (#8770283)
http://esr.ibiblio.org/ - Eric S. Raymond
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you ch... by supersrdjan on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:01PM (#8770180)
farnamstreetblog.com