alt.hn

6/4/2026 at 12:21:55 PM

Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?

by f311a

6/4/2026 at 7:57:17 PM

[random comment on the internet]

Some content on the subject of AI is deeply technical, just as is some content on the subject of blockchain, lisp, retro-computing, etc.

But most of what is written about most things (including C, reverse engineering, systems programming, etc.) is not deeply technical.

One problem unique to AI is that “AI” doesn’t mean anything specific…I mean even your question doesn’t distinguish between articles about specific AI technologies, articles generated using LLM’s, “AI” as a marketing feature, AI as an industry, AI as an ideology etc.

by brudgers

6/5/2026 at 3:30:02 PM

Textbooks, white papers and research publications if I understand what you mean by "deep technical". I like lectures and stuff too but find it difficult to refer back to later and search around.

by dieselgate

6/4/2026 at 3:26:16 PM

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?

by bediger4000

6/4/2026 at 12:53:18 PM

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.

by iefbr14

6/6/2026 at 4:29:38 AM

Be specific! You must know what you want to read at a time, always prefer going with fundamentals, textbooks and get keywords. Use those keywords to find out the deeper level content.

by tanlethanh

6/5/2026 at 4:11:13 PM

In most cases documentation is enough for me when I need some help with my current day to day tasks.

If I want do dig deeper - textbooks, white papers are still a good source.

by bohdanstefaniuk

6/4/2026 at 9:30:52 PM

For Go in particular: the docs. Gophercon videos.

In general good conference then Youtube. Even if old e.g. strangeloop. There is Fosdem etc.

by dnnddidiej

6/5/2026 at 1:24:42 PM

Watch lectures from Stanford, MIT, and other universities.

by crowcountry

6/6/2026 at 3:16:35 AM

What are you favourites?

by bawis

6/4/2026 at 3:39:54 PM

There are a huge number of system programming books. You can also search for system programming topics on HN.

by markus_zhang

6/5/2026 at 8:29:52 PM

Books.

by dakiol

6/5/2026 at 1:54:45 PM

books

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6/4/2026 at 1:15:09 PM

lobste.rs has some stuff

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6/5/2026 at 12:51:33 AM

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6/5/2026 at 1:06:35 AM

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6/5/2026 at 7:03:02 AM

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6/5/2026 at 6:39:34 AM

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6/4/2026 at 3:13:25 PM

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6/4/2026 at 3:06:59 PM

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