The mildly intriguing information that I find on HN has definitely been useful in plenty of contexts. A very tangible one was one HN article about garbage collector implementation from zero which I read simply because it was intriguing. Then found myself in a bloomberg interview where we ended up talking about GC and it was a pleasure to discuss the details having read that article a couple of month before

rusu.io tracks the challenges, lessons and successes in the development of a solo developer.

It won't overflow you with content that you cannot keep up with, but you'll get good insights into how a stoic approach to life and development works