Sources and method
34 newsletters, 672 issues: where they come from and how they are measured.
Feeds, read weekly
Every Tuesday at 13:15 UTC the site requests each newsletter's own RSS or Atom feed, once, and adds the issues it has not seen. The Batch publishes no feed; for it the site reads the archive page and keeps only cards that show a title, a link and a printed date. No model reads anything and nothing is guessed: an issue without a date is skipped.
What is kept
Each issue's title, date and link. Never its text or images: the author decides what is free to read, on their own site.
Free or paid, and platform
For Substack newsletters, the site reads the public archive list once a week and counts how many of the latest 12 issues are for paying subscribers only: none is Free, all is Paid, anything between is Free and paid. For other platforms it comes from the subscribe page. The platform is what the feed itself reports (Substack, Ghost, Beehiiv, Buttondown) or the newsletter's own site.
Cadence and status
Cadence is measured from the archive: issues a month over the last six months, or over the days the feed covers when it holds less history than that (most Substack feeds list their latest 20). "Most active" sorts by it. Active: an issue in the last 45 days. Paused: last issue 45 to 120 days ago. Stopped: no issue for 120 days or more.
Topics
Fixed keyword rules over each issue's title and the feed's categories; an issue that matches none gets its newsletter's main topic.
History
Nothing is overwritten quietly. When a newsletter starts, pauses or stops, goes paid or free, moves platform, changes cadence, when its feed breaks or recovers, or an issue is retitled, a row is added to the change log. Issues that drop out of a feed stay. Each week a snapshot of every newsletter's numbers is kept.
The newsletters and their feeds
34 of 34 newsletters
| Newsletter | Feed |
|---|---|
| Ahead of AISebastian Raschka | https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/feed |
| AI as Normal TechnologyArvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor | https://www.normaltech.ai/feed |
| Ben's BitesBen's Bites | https://www.bensbites.com/feed |
| benn.substackBenn Stancil | https://benn.substack.com/feed |
| Big TechnologyAlex Kantrowitz | https://www.bigtechnology.com/feed |
| ByteByteGoByteByteGo | https://blog.bytebytego.com/feed |
| ChinAIJeffrey Ding | https://chinai.substack.com/feed |
| Data Engineering WeeklyAnanth Packkildurai | https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/feed |
| Exponential ViewAzeem Azhar | https://www.exponentialview.co/feed |
| Fabricated KnowledgeDoug O'Laughlin | https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/feed |
| Hacker NewsletterKale Davis | https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter/rss |
| Import AIJack Clark | https://importai.substack.com/feed |
| InterconnectsNathan Lambert | https://www.interconnects.ai/feed |
| Last Week in AILast Week in AI | https://lastweekin.ai/feed |
| Latent Spaceswyx and Alessio Fanelli | https://www.latent.space/feed |
| Lenny's NewsletterLenny Rachitsky | https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/feed |
| One Useful ThingEthan Mollick | https://www.oneusefulthing.org/feed |
| PlatformerCasey Newton | https://www.platformer.news/rss/ |
| RefactoringLuca Rossi | https://refactoring.fm/feed |
| SeattleDataGuyBen Rogojan | https://seattledataguy.substack.com/feed |
| SemiAnalysisSemiAnalysis | https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/feed |
| Simon Willison's NewsletterSimon Willison | https://simonw.substack.com/feed |
| StratecheryBen Thompson | https://stratechery.com/feed/ |
| The Algorithmic BridgeAlberto Romero | https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/feed |
| The Analytics Engineering Roundupdbt Labs | https://roundup.getdbt.com/feed |
| The BatchDeepLearning.AI | No feed; archive page https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/ |
| The Chip LetterBabbage | https://thechipletter.substack.com/feed |
| The NeuronThe Neuron | https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/N4eCstxvgX.xml |
| The Pragmatic EngineerGergely Orosz | https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/feed |
| TheSequenceJesus Rodriguez | https://thesequence.substack.com/feed |
| TLDRTLDR | https://tldr.tech/api/rss/tech |
| TLDR AITLDR | https://tldr.tech/api/rss/ai |
| TLDR DataTLDR | https://tldr.tech/api/rss/data |
| Understanding AITimothy B. Lee | https://www.understandingai.org/feed |
Checked and left out
The Neuron's public feed was found through its site; NLP News (Sebastian Ruder) and The Gradient are left out because their last issues are too old. Console's feed lists tool reviews rather than issues. Suggest one with Suggest a missing newsletter.
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Disclaimer
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