Internet Content Directory 2026

Finding real internet content in 2026 feels hard.

This is a leading counterexample if anyone says technology doesn’t regress. It’s shocking that it’s this much harder to find real content than it was 25 years ago.

This page is my personal index of real internet content. If it helps anyone else, great. Hopefully you find yourself going down a rabbit hole where you spend hours reading someone else’s careful thoughts and analysis. The links are for reading and learning (even if I don’t agree with the content!) rather than shallow consumption/entertainment/interacting with others - activities I prefer to avoid. This is the page I open when I want to mindlessly ‘surf the web’.

Criteria for inclusion:

• No registration or subscription
• Non-intrusive advertising
• Quality of content
• Depth of content
• Recent and regular updates
• Preference for text over graphics
• Excludes social media and anything on Substack, Medium, and dev.to (you don’t need a directory to find stuff there)

News and Sports

• https://www.npr.org/
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/latest
• https://news.kagi.com/world/latest
• https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097
• https://www.france24.com/en/
• https://plaintextsports.com/
• https://allsports.org/
• https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/calendars/nationalecon_cal

Economics

• https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/home
• https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs
• https://ourworldindata.org/latest
• https://cepr.org/voxeu
• https://www.federalreserve.gov/
• https://www.eia.gov/
• https://www.bls.gov/
• https://bea.gov/
• https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule
• https://www.bea.gov/news/blog
• https://www.nber.org/
• https://www.nber.org/conferences?page=1&perPage=50&eventType=past
• https://www.nber.org/nber-news?page=1&perPage=50
• https://www.nber.org/subscribe
• https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/jep
• https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/recent-developments-lectures
• http://repec.org/
• https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/
• https://fred.stlouisfed.org/releases/calendar
• https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/
• https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/
• https://www.kansascityfed.org/ten/ten-magazine-archive/
• https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/jackson-hole-economic-symposium/
• https://www.kansascityfed.org/about-us/ealert/
• https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/blog/
• https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/
• https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/data-and-indicators/
• https://www.frbsf.org/subscriptions/
• https://www.dallasfed.org/research
• https://cloud.email.em-dallasfed.org/signup
• https://www.dynare.org/
• https://bsvars.org/bsvars/
• https://people.tamu.edu/~gtian/Lecture%20Notes%20for%20ECON660%20and%20ECON460-2021-09.pdf
• https://iicseonline.org/Mathematical_Economics_1.pdf
• https://www.sfu.ca/~wainwrig/5701/7701_online_New.htm

Personal Sites and Blogs (Economics)

• http://www.tomsargent.com/
• https://www.princeton.edu/~sims/
• https://eml.berkeley.edu/~dromer/index.shtml
• https://eml.berkeley.edu/~cromer/
• https://paulromer.net/
• https://eml.berkeley.edu/~mcfadden/
• https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/index.html
• https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eugene-fama
• https://econbrowser.com/archives/author/james_hamilton
• https://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/
• https://web.stanford.edu/~johntayl/
• https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/
• https://sites.google.com/site/lkilian2019/
• https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
• https://econ.jhu.edu/directory/christopher-carroll/
• https://benjaminmoll.com/
• https://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/
• https://faculty.washington.edu/ezivot/index.htm
• http://korora.econ.yale.edu/phillips/
• https://norman-swanson.github.io/
• https://sites.nd.edu/esims/
• https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vr0j/
• https://www.aronaldg.org/
• https://earlyretirementnow.com/
• https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
• https://www.mercatus.org/macro-musings (Note: You can read transcripts of the podcasts)
• https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
• https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights
• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
• https://fxdiebold.blogspot.com/
• https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~fdiebold/
• https://www.theretirementmanifesto.com/resources/
• https://envecon.blog/

Web Directories and Aggregators

• https://bubbles.town/
• https://bearblog.dev/discover/?newest=true
• https://blogroll.org/
• https://indieblog.page/
• https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/directory
• https://personalsit.es/
• https://ooh.directory/
• https://curlie.org/
• https://blogs.hn/
• https://url.town/
• https://kalechips.net/responsive/directory
• https://blogroll.club/

Tech News

• https://slashdot.org/
• https://lobste.rs/
• https://lxer.com/
• https://distrowatch.com/

Personal Sites and Blogs (Other)

• https://www.mollywhite.net/
• https://gowers.wordpress.com/
• https://wordpress.com/discover
• http://scripting.com/
• https://terrytao.wordpress.com/
• https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/
• https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/
• https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/
• https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/blogs-i-read/
• https://simonwillison.net/
• https://paulgraham.com/
• https://sive.rs/
• https://joeyh.name/blog/
• https://sachachua.com/blog/
• https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/
• https://austinhenley.com/blog.html
• https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/
• https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/
• https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/
• https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/
• https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/
• https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/
• https://notstatschat.rbind.io/post/
• https://earlyweblinks.com/
• https://drewdevault.com/
• https://notes.eatonphil.com/

Programming and Related

• https://forum.dlang.org/
• https://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-arsd/Blog.html
• https://opendlang.org/index.html
• https://www.r-bloggers.com/
• https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/pub-details.html
• https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
• https://adv-r.hadley.nz/
• https://gigamonkeys.com/book/
• https://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
• https://letoverlambda.com/
• https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
• https://cliki.net/Lisp%20Books
• https://www.emacswiki.org/
• https://craftinginterpreters.com/
• https://postgrespro.com/community/books/internals
• https://history.siam.org/oralhistories.htm
• https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/
• https://sqlite.org/forum/forum
• https://sqlite.org/docs.html
• https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
• https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forum
• https://sr.ht/

Books

• https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
• https://sites.nd.edu/esims/textbook/
• https://openstax.org/
• https://oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks
• https://libretexts.org/
• https://textbooks.aimath.org/
• https://ccel.org/
• https://plato.stanford.edu/
• https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-41026-0.pdf
• https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/index.html
• https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/book/
• https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html
• https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html
• https://johnwhitington.net/ocamlfromtheverybeginning/mlbook.pdf
• https://dev.realworldocaml.org/
• https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf
• https://htdp.org/
• https://web.math.princeton.edu/~js129/PDFs/teaching/MAT520_fall_2023/MAT520_Lecture_Notes.pdf
• https://gabekerr.github.io/scholars/frontmatter.html
• https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-001-calculus-fall-2023/resources/mitres_18_001_f17_full_book_pdf/
• https://fourier.math.uoc.gr/~mk/approx1011/carothers.pdf
• https://zavala92.github.io/files/Notes%20on%20Approximation%20Theory.pdf
• https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/ATAP/ATAPfirst6chapters.pdf
• https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~PLP/assets/plp.pdf
• https://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~mate/intro_proofs/intro_proofs_notes.pdf
• https://personal.math.vt.edu/day/ProofsBook/IPaMV.pdf
• https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-100b-real-analysis-spring-2025/pages/lecture-notes/
• https://fac.iitg.ac.in/rksri/MA642%20Real%20Analysis%20lecture%20notes,%202025.pdf
• https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~hunter/intro_analysis_pdf/intro_analysis.html

Everything Else

• https://ocw.mit.edu/
• https://arxiv.org/
• https://www.irs.gov/
• https://www.ssa.gov/
• https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/blog
• https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news
• https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news-events/news/
• https://scienceblogs.com/
• https://www.science.org/blogs
• https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
• https://www.nobelprize.org/
• https://amturing.acm.org/lectures.cfm
• https://www.gutenberg.org/
• https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html
• https://home.cern/news/
• https://www.quantamagazine.org/
• https://news.mit.edu/
• https://worksinprogress.co/
• https://community.ibm.com/community/user/my-community
• https://research.ibm.com/blog
• https://www.nature.com/

True minimal theme