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Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

331 points by mgos 9y ago

diyseguy 9y ago
news.ycombinator.com though I wish it had a way to collapse uninteresting conversations. Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/vid... and lately I've been binge watching the Jordan Peterson lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xc2_FtpHI&list=PL22J3VaeABQAT-0aSPq-OKOpQlHyR4k5h https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xc2_FtpHI&list=PL22J3VaeAB... ribbonfarm: though I usually only read the articles by Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/author/admin/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/author/admin/ also bingewatching lessons on 2x from http://edx.org http://edx.org. It used to be http://coursera.org http://coursera.org but their servers are sluggish most of the time.
itzsuvy 9y ago
Medium.com, Hacker News, Product Hunt and varoius other sites/posts through some 10/15 newsletters. Also, Twitter.
tmaly 9y ago
I like to read at least one post on https://www.indiehackers.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/ to keep me motivated to make my side project successful. I also read the daily email from http://oppsdaily.com/ http://oppsdaily.com/ to see if there is a problem that I can solve that someone is willing to pay for.
mestredocodigo 9y ago
I like to read articles on medium, but a particular site I like is scotch.io I myself write on a blog. Unfortunately it is in portuguese so you may not understand. But in case you want to check you can see it here. https://mestredocodigo.com.br/visualg-3-curso-introdutorio-parte-1/ https://mestredocodigo.com.br/visualg-3-curso-introdutorio-p...
nikolalsvk 9y ago
https://www.brainpickings.org/ https://www.brainpickings.org/ - Great website dealing with literary works and thoughts of humanities greatest minds.
Yuvrajv5 9y ago
For inspiration: http://zenpencils.com/ http://zenpencils.com/
Valk3_ 9y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Dzone yet. https://dzone.com/ https://dzone.com/
spurlock 9y ago
Rabbithole warning: - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome - http://popurls.com http://popurls.com
craigmi 9y ago
wikivoyage is awesome
Fannon 9y ago
I like the curated, summarized "weekly newsletters", one of them is http://javascriptweekly.com/ http://javascriptweekly.com/ but there are more.
kyo3 9y ago
http://abduzeedo.com/tags/daily-inspiration http://abduzeedo.com/tags/daily-inspiration For design
xyzxyz998 9y ago
I visit n-gate.com weekly. I am not very well-aware of stuff outside css/js and lot of people here talk confidently about stuff they have no clue of, unopposed. n-gate reminds me how little people on this site know stuff outside of css/js/business. Rest are clueless wannabes trying to one-up each other. My favorite comment will always be- somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously. I'm sure I'll be downvoted which will be further proof of what I'm saying. Not that I care really. I make an account a week.
- mgos 9y ago
  one look at n-gate and it looks promising. Thanks.
  - deleted 9y ago
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- mdlap 9y ago
  Seems the site is just as opinionated as the worst of HN...
  - yorwba 9y ago
    I think it's just clever satire. I especially like the "about" page.
    - xyzxyz998 9y ago
      > Hacker news is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement. I'll also add- it serves as a punching bag for people who can't speak up at their work- they vent their frustrations here by belittling everyone's work.
      - SZJX 9y ago
        I mean this is the nature of the web. But HN is already as good as we can get. You yourself keep coming back as well, apparently. Otherwise do you have an alternative to propose?
nbaksalyar 9y ago
http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ - weekly newsletter about scalability, distributed computing, computer science, and other relevant things. I don't think it gets attention it deserves - it's really, really good and contains wealth of (mostly) timeless information. Also, Reddit. Not the default front-page stuff, of course, but more in-depth and smaller subreddits, such as /r/netsec, /r/financialindependence, or /r/rust - there's a multitude of nice focused communities. Occassionally even /r/programming is more interesting than Hacker News though :)
- deepnet 9y ago
  FYI you can make clickable subreddit links by using a subdomain, e.g. : http://financialindependence.reddit.com http://financialindependence.reddit.com http://netsec.reddit.com http://netsec.reddit.com http://rust.reddit.com http://rust.reddit.com http://programming.reddit.com http://programming.reddit.com
vvdcect 9y ago
Here is a list I keep for weekend reading Got some of these links from previous HN posts like this.. Not entirely tech sites http://nautil.us/ http://nautil.us/ https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ https://meaningness.com/ https://meaningness.com/ http://slatestarcodex.com/ http://slatestarcodex.com/ http://www.britishpathe.com/ http://www.britishpathe.com/ http://www.atlasobscura.com/ http://www.atlasobscura.com/ https://scholars-stage.blogspot.my https://scholars-stage.blogspot.my http://www.counterpunch.org/ http://www.counterpunch.org/ http://harpers.org/history/ http://harpers.org/history/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/ https://zcomm.org/zmag/ https://zcomm.org/zmag/ https://the-artifice.com https://the-artifice.com https://liliputing.com/ https://liliputing.com/ https://dev.to/ https://dev.to/ http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://stratechery.com/ https://stratechery.com/ http://www.tedunangst.com/inks/ http://www.tedunangst.com/inks/
- leephillips 9y ago
  I formatted my list with names rather than URLs, but now I see the advantage of doing it your way. At a glance I can see that three of your sites are in my browser history.
JayeshSidhwani 9y ago
http://highscalability.com http://highscalability.com
nikivi 9y ago
https://learn-anything.xyz/ https://learn-anything.xyz/ Mostly because we created it. :)
- mgos 9y ago
  Can't seem to open this site.
jerat 9y ago
Hacker news
- known 9y ago
  Recursion
Philipp__ 9y ago
https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs similar to HN but much much more humble in every way. I quite like it. Although I don't have account so I am mostly reading.
- elorm 9y ago
  Would you like an invite?
  - eaurouge 9y ago
    Yes, please. Can you send me one?
    - kzisme 9y ago
      Do you still need an invite?
      - eaurouge 9y ago
        Sorry, didn't see this earlier. Yes, still need one. Thanks! Edit: Oops, turns out I did receive an invite. Thanks, elorm!
        kzisme 9y ago
        Sent!
        elorm 9y ago
        Always welcome :)
      - deleted 9y ago
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  - Philipp__ 9y ago
    Please, it would be great if you could hook me up with one! Email: filip.miletic at me.com
KC8ZKF 9y ago
http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/ http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/ Definitively non-tech, but full of knowledge and inspiration.
santoshmaharshi 9y ago
Daily - Mostly Tech / Science. I love hacker news as it covers basic science as well. From discovery of planets, to Gene editing. Hacker News :) http://techmeme.com/ http://techmeme.com/ https://slashdot.org/ https://slashdot.org/ Weekly - World http://kottke.org/ http://kottke.org/ https://www.edge.org/ https://www.edge.org/ Youtube App on Ipad, Subscription to Joe Rogen, Tim Ferris, and many others Podcasters like these mostly point out to any random topic under the sun, and the discussion is Deep. Example - check out these podcasts and their discussion on Ethics, AI, Health, Finance and Trump :) Random Facebook - mostly from friends and of personal nature, but I do visit resources they point out
- brador 9y ago
  You need http://skimfeed.com http://skimfeed.com in your life.
  - kzisme 9y ago
    Someone had mentioned skimfeed previously on here, and ever since I have always had a tab of it opened/pinned!
  - javitury 9y ago
    An aggregator composed of other news aggregators. As a concept it is great, but it will never come close to platforms like reddit. It's like newspapers, most of them just buy the news from agencies then complain about the decline of the (traditional) industry. An aggregator without curation will be so redundant and boring... Instead look at those places that have something special and make you come back. They all have some differentiating factor. The WSJ from time to time produces high quality non-redundant content. The comments or content produced by users on HN and reddit are sometimes better than the news elsewhere. Curation and the user base confer a site personality. This is why places like HN or reddit are so popular. Reddit offers a very high degree of segmentation to users through subreddit subscriptions. This allows users with perhaps very different personalities to get along by only focusing on things they have in common. Not only that, it incentives users to create, share and enjoy content together. Y combinator has a true commitment to provide a simple platform to a user niche they are interested in. In contrast to the laissez faire curation approach of reddit, the strategy of HN is not as broad but for this specific niche is of higher quality. Although sometimes HN is used for Y combinator's purposes, they don't abuse it and many times the interests are aligned with most of their user base.
mdlap 9y ago
https://theconversation.com/ https://theconversation.com/ - Great source of news and analysis of everything. Articles by academics and researchers. Claims almost always backed with evidence. http://www.kurzweilai.net/ http://www.kurzweilai.net/ - Articles about some of the most interesting bleeding-edge high-tech research. https://arstechnica.com/ https://arstechnica.com/ - Tech and tech-related news.
- SZJX 9y ago
  Well the conversation might say their claims are backed up etc. but so do most other news outlets of scale. Eventually they still have clear, inevitable political leanings and bias there, just as every other news outlet.
  - logingone 9y ago
    Any suggestions for which are the least biased news source?
yorwba 9y ago
The Morning Paper (https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/) is a nice way to learn about research happening outside my own little bubble.
- catherinezng 9y ago
  I also LOVE the Morning Paper.
kr4 9y ago
Life and everything (non-technical): http://omswami.com http://omswami.com Treasure of practical knowledge right from the mouth of one who has attained enlightenment in the transcidental sense of the word. Biweekly post – 1st and 3rd Saturday every month. Earlier (till about an year ago) for roughly 5 years, it was every Saturday so there's lot of pearls of wisdom in there with amusing tales and jokes to instill the knowledge within.
meagerboss 9y ago
https://www.kenyatalk.com https://www.kenyatalk.com
jerry40 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://news.ycombinator.com/news
- zeep 9y ago
  you don't need the /news
  - LyndsySimon 9y ago
    ^ Unintentionally insightful comment :)
    - jerry40 9y ago
      Oh come on, I answered a question about the site I visit every day and got all this.
  - jerry40 9y ago
    Yes, I know, it is the url of the "Hacker News" logo, so I've just copied it.
bostik 9y ago
There's of course Ars Technica, but for finance-meets-technology-meets-basic-socioeconomics nothing beats Matt Levine's Money Stuff. Archive and RSS feed link here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff
monk_e_boy 9y ago
http://spectrum.ieee.org http://spectrum.ieee.org
leephillips 9y ago
A few sites from my newsfeed (I use Newsblur): Hacker News (of course) LWN Ars Technica Angry Asian Man Climate Denial Crock of the Week Cool Tools Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain ESA Top News (Euro. Space Agency) Jewish Daily Forward Jonesblog (retinal neuroscientist and photographer:http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/about/) NASA Image of the Day Physical Review Letters Not Even Wrong Planet Clojure RealClimate Retraction Watch New York Times WTOP (local news) Schneier on Security Slate Star Codex Space Safety Magazine CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (highly recommended) Stories from the trauma bay
Pandabob 9y ago
Hacker News, Marginal Revolution and the Financial Times. Reddit mostly for leisure, but occasionally also for knowledge and inspiration. Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.
- great_psy 9y ago
  I tried doing the same thing, now on my laptop I've installed Redirector chrome extension[0]. Every time I try going on Reddit or HN I get a random wiki article. I've found myself using my phone more often, or incognito(extension disabled) to browse those sites. [0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiegeliagebegjdhebejdlknciafen https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege...
theklub 9y ago
Youtube
- comboy 9y ago
  Not sure why it's downvoted. That was my first thought too. There are tons of educational videos, lectures and inspiring interviews. If you keep watching this kind of stuff recommendations also get quite reasonable.
  - boramalper 9y ago
    Yeah but it's like saying "the Web". You should mention some channels, playlists, etc. at the very least. =)
    - comboy 9y ago
      Fair enough. There was some recent thread about it lately but I can't find it at the moment. Here's an older one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
    - mindcrime 9y ago
      Fair point: MIT OpenCourseware channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw Stanford online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa5G_ESCn8Yd4vw5U-gIcg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa5G_ESCn8Yd4vw5U-gIcg Professor Leonard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg NPTEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640y4UvDAlya_WOj5U4pfA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640y4UvDAlya_WOj5U4pfA Spark Summit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw All Things Open: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBhXFK70DbOU15N2BhDQVTg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBhXFK70DbOU15N2BhDQVTg etc., etc., etc.
- mindcrime 9y ago
jonathansizz 9y ago
A couple that haven't yet been mentioned: American Scientist (distinct from Scientific American) [https://www.americanscientist.org/ https://www.americanscientist.org/] for science, engineering and technology. Foreign Affairs [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/] for international relations and politics. although I actually switched back to reading these (and others) in ink-on-paper format, which I've found helps me focus much better. EDIT: Also, Philosophy Now [https://philosophynow.org/ https://philosophynow.org/] for more abstract ideas. These are bimonthly publications, and all worth paying money for.
agumonkey 9y ago
My library physics books section.
fsloth 9y ago
I hate newsflood. I figure if it's important enough it will either float up to news.ycombinator.com or to the Economist (which I order-but I tend to listen most of the articles as the audio comes free for subscribers and is of excellent quality). I try to read books nowadays more than random blogposts. Makes my monkeybrain happier (and I secretly wish wiser).
- ryanstorm 9y ago
  We're subscribed to the same newsfeeds. In addition, I only look at hacker news through the weekly newsletter, in order to avoid the dopamine addiction of checking multiple times a day. As for the The Economist, I've found that they always gives a great dose of history and context to their articles, which is what I would be searching for in reddit anyway, so I've found reddit to be a lot less useful nowadays.
apancik 9y ago
Some time ago I built https://10hn.pancik.com/ https://10hn.pancik.com/ to aggregate and rank interesting articles and make them easily readable on the phone. There are days when I don't read anything else, just swiping through 10HN reading few long reads.
- kzisme 9y ago
  Not sure if you care, but when first opening the website - hitting the right arrow doesn't work (you have to click first). Also down arrow doesn't scroll as expected (maybe this is intentional).
  - apancik 9y ago
    Thank you! I definitely care and it's on my todo list. I use it mainly on a phone so naturally I keep forgetting to get to it.
du_bing 9y ago
Hacker News GitHub Twitter Quora.com Zhihu.com(Chinese) And various RSS feeds and emails from MIT, IDC, personal blog, DoD and etc..
hector_ka 9y ago
popurls.com
forg0t_username 9y ago
That might look a bit cliché, but once in a while I'll Google stuff I'm curious about and for which I have absolutely no background. Reading academic reviews and looking up the vocabulary on the fly is a great way to stay humble.
- IgorPartola 9y ago
  This. Especially when I realize that there is a thing the explanation for which was given to me by someone way before either of us had access to the internet and before Google existed (I am getting old I guess). Like whether eating onions helps stave off a cold. Or how a distributed in a car works. Or whether Nissans are actually reliable or not. Or if you need higher than minimum recommended octane rating in your car. Or why most of Europe uses 240V in their outlets. Or what actually happened in Chernobyl.
garysieling 9y ago
Nautilus - http://nautil.us/ http://nautil.us/ - Science magazine with great art The Economist - https://www.economist.com/ https://www.economist.com/ - I like that they do articles about places all over the world Find Lectures - https://www.findlectures.com/ https://www.findlectures.com/ - Search engine focused on collecting talks I also collect book recommendations from HN, people I follow on Twitter in an Amazon wishlist.
krylon 9y ago
Might sound dull, but I recommend Wikipedia. There is a word for it, which I forgot, when you look something up on Wikipedia, the article contains a link to another article, and you go, "Oooh, that sounds interesting", open it in another tab, then, when reading the second article, you come across two or three more of such links, and before you know what is going on, you have dozens of tabs open. The only limit is your patience and your computer's RAM. Eventually you'll end up reading articles that are not even remotely related to your initial inquiry, but highly interesting nonetheless.
- zengr 9y ago
  I agree. I was pleasantly surprised by the Wikipedia iOS app, it's really addictive https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8
- orb_yt 9y ago
  https://xkcd.com/214/ https://xkcd.com/214/ An interesting side note: if you repeatedly click the first link at the beginning of any wikipedia article (except links in parenthesis) you will always end up at Philosophy.
  - horns13 9y ago
    I started with 'God of War (2018 video game)' and ended up at 'Philosophy'!
  - hithereagain 9y ago
    If you start with Mathematics, you'll end up in a loop: Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematics. Ignoring this backlink, though, it would work: Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematical object > Abstract and concrete > Referent > Linguistics > Science > Knowledge > Fact > Verificationism > Philosophy
    - amenod 9y ago
      Also, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Internationaux_de_Strasbourg_%E2%80%93_Doubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Internationaux_de_Strasbo... (random page) you get into loop around "Languages". But if the algorithm should ignore the already visited links then it would probably work because the pages usually describe something using the higher level concepts first. The question is how much larger the pool of "always found" pages becomes.
msnangersme 9y ago
Google News - Love how it aggregates news across multiple sources. Google Trends - To understand what people are searching for Reddit - Treasure trove of opinions and insights Hacker News - Quality tech news and opinions For my own use, I built a simple site to browse all of these sites from one place effectively: https://newsfeed.one/ https://newsfeed.one/
- copperx 9y ago
  You lost me at > Hacker News - Quality tech news and opinions
  - HiroshiSan 9y ago
    we all love to rag on HN (myself included) yet we all keep comin' back.
    - SZJX 9y ago
      I mean this is the nature of the web. To be honest HN is already the best we can get compared with most alternatives. That's why.
- praveenbeatle 9y ago
  May I ask what tools you used to built that ?
mindslight 9y ago
Hacker News, imgur, slickdeals. Also, mu.
robschia 9y ago
Aeon: https://aeon.co https://aeon.co Stunning art, beautiful and thoughtful essays, ideas and videos.
spurlock 9y ago
Rabbithole warning: - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome - http://popurls.com http://popurls.com
DonaldDerek 9y ago
http://cdm.link/ http://cdm.link/ Create Digital Music
zatkin 9y ago
- HN - Lobste.rs - Reddit (occasionally) - Google News (rarely) I find myself reading a lot more books in person though, namely educational books about topics I'm unfamiliar with or want to review. I think it's important to read about something that you don't know about but want to learn more about, e.g. for me: economics.
zwieback 9y ago
crookedtimber.org
ptr_void 9y ago
- Daily, the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos - HN - A whole bunch of other site/blog/channels as feed that I look at when I have time.
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DonaldDerek 9y ago
http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/ http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/ Great tumblr, suggested by a close friend.
kiot 9y ago
Google Arts & Culture. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/ https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/
sellislem 9y ago
mostly tech news from hacker news and tech explicit ( http://techexplicit.tk http://techexplicit.tk )
wav-part 9y ago
One that I have not seen mentioned yet: https://phys.org/ https://phys.org/.
ivm 9y ago
https://sidebar.io/ https://sidebar.io/ for getting better at design
phaedrus-mg 9y ago
HN and reddit emacs ( and now thanks to you all a lot more)
praveenbeatle 9y ago
Medium - https://medium.com/ https://medium.com/ MIT Technology Review - https://www.technologyreview.com/ https://www.technologyreview.com/ Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/ https://www.bloomberg.com/ Audible(Once a Month) - http://www.audible.com/ http://www.audible.com/ Waking Up Podcast by Sam Harris -https://www.samharris.org/podcast https://www.samharris.org/podcast
dmytrish 9y ago
A few years ago it was https://coursera.org https://coursera.org - they were a powerful beacon of high-quality knowledge first-hand from world-class experts. I still try to learn as much as possible there, but my feeling of the site being intrusively optimized for business and short-term gain is increasing every day.
mindcrash 9y ago
Farnam Street @ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/: "Farnam Street is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life. We address such topics as mental models, decision making, learning, reading, and the art of living."
rami 9y ago
http://workhack.com/finance http://workhack.com/finance
FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
https://gwern.net https://gwern.net and https://atlasobscura.com https://atlasobscura.com For inspiration on UI, I browse https://dribbble.com https://dribbble.com https://codepen.io https://codepen.io and https://uplabs.com https://uplabs.com
- radicality 9y ago
  +1 for gwern, I enjoy his monthly newsletter. Still not sure how that guy gets so much reading and writing done
kongolongo 9y ago
Blogs by cs profs.. mostly theory of compsci guys. Always interesting to see what they think about current events/ what latest cs theory stuff is like...although often times I can only recall a couple words in their posts from the discrete math courses all those years ago. http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ is a pretty good one
- JW_00000 9y ago
  Do you have more recommendations except that one?
  - ASipos 9y ago
    Scott Aaronson's blog is solid.
pera 9y ago
This is my favorite one: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/ Quanta articles are always extremely enlightening, interesting and well written.
- sassy_samurai 9y ago
  Yup, I think Quanta and Nautilus feature the best science writing in the world.
chatman 9y ago
RT
tjalfi 9y ago
I visit Raymond Chen's blog[0] every weekday. He posts content on Windows internals, Win32 APIs, and explanations for Windows behavior. If you program for Win32 then reading his blog will identify bugs in your code[1]. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ [1] http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=57 http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=57 Edited for formatting and to omit needless words
relevant_thing 9y ago
http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com
cpete 9y ago
https://longform.org/ https://longform.org/ Curated collections of long-form journalism. Edit: Forgot to add Codex 99, '...an occasionally updated website about art, design and history, except when it’s about something else altogether." http://www.codex99.com http://www.codex99.com
Jpoechill 9y ago
HN, Recode, TheVerge, Pinterest, SBNation, ESPN. I guess I like sports? :)
mmphosis 9y ago
http://thesunmagazine.org/ http://thesunmagazine.org/
slantaclaus 9y ago
http://www.ted.com http://www.ted.com. It's pretty hit and miss, but I've gotten a ton of inspiration and knowledge from this website since 2008.
boneheadmed 9y ago
You can't beat Rush Limbaugh with transcripts and audio. Premium membership is even better: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com https://www.rushlimbaugh.com
sukhadatkeereo 9y ago
I find books about topics that I'm interested in learning more as the best source of knowledge or inspiration. Consider the book 'Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture' as an excellent source of Japanese culture and food habits. I have learnt so much from this fascinating book and it's a great source of inspiration too.
brianchan 9y ago
quora, medium, hacker news.
FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Not a site per say, but I check out PBS Digital Studios daily on youtube. Namely: Infinite Series - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g (I never thought I would find a math series one of my favorite channels) SpaceTime - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g Crash Course - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q When done properly, web video/animated content can greatly enhance learning abstract, obtuse material and can be worth 1000 words per second. From Infinite Series, I finally got the gist of quantum computing.
b3b0p 9y ago
I try to limit it to the following: US Gamer: https://www.usgamer.net https://www.usgamer.net Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com https://www.giantbomb.com (I'm premium subscriber) Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com https://arstechnica.com NeoGAF: https://www.neogaf.com https://www.neogaf.com (I try not to sometimes as it's a time sink, but it's fun, mindless and stressless.) and Hacker News of course. I try to stay away from Reddit and as it's a time sink for me and I find can stress me mentally.
narak 9y ago
http://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.metafilter.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ http://www.econlib.org/ http://www.econlib.org/, https://www.cato.org/ https://www.cato.org/, https://mises.org/ https://mises.org/ (disclaimer: austrian econ slant)
chillingeffect 9y ago
Some of the only decent writing I ever see on the web: http://popehat.com http://popehat.com It's brief, unapologetic, patient explanations about specific cases in law that touch on popular topics. It really shows how non-black-and-white the world is and especially how bringing knowledge to it gives you clarity, even when you're not in total agreement.
kureikain 9y ago
I mostly uses Hacker News. From there, it leads me to site such as HighScalability, then Medium engineering blog of company or individual developer. Once you like something, they suggest other thing and I go from there. I also try to visit engineering blog of company that I like such as Github, Etsy, Segment, Stripe and learn from their blog. They usually have very good article about what really happening at a real company and what they do to solve. Then I also use Youtube, subscirbe to Confreaks, and again, whenever I like some video, they suggest something very close to what I like. Then sometimes ago, I started to collect links and realize I should share with the world and start this site: https://betterdev.link/ https://betterdev.link/

331 points by mgos 9y ago

news.ycombinator.com though I wish it had a way to collapse uninteresting conversations. Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/vid... and lately I've been binge watching the Jordan Peterson lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xc2_FtpHI&list=PL22J3VaeABQAT-0aSPq-OKOpQlHyR4k5h https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xc2_FtpHI&list=PL22J3VaeAB... ribbonfarm: though I usually only read the articles by Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/author/admin/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/author/admin/ also bingewatching lessons on 2x from http://edx.org http://edx.org. It used to be http://coursera.org http://coursera.org but their servers are sluggish most of the time.

itzsuvy 9y ago

Medium.com, Hacker News, Product Hunt and varoius other sites/posts through some 10/15 newsletters. Also, Twitter.

tmaly 9y ago

I like to read at least one post on https://www.indiehackers.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/ to keep me motivated to make my side project successful. I also read the daily email from http://oppsdaily.com/ http://oppsdaily.com/ to see if there is a problem that I can solve that someone is willing to pay for.

mestredocodigo 9y ago

I like to read articles on medium, but a particular site I like is scotch.io I myself write on a blog. Unfortunately it is in portuguese so you may not understand. But in case you want to check you can see it here. https://mestredocodigo.com.br/visualg-3-curso-introdutorio-parte-1/ https://mestredocodigo.com.br/visualg-3-curso-introdutorio-p...

nikolalsvk 9y ago

https://www.brainpickings.org/ https://www.brainpickings.org/ - Great website dealing with literary works and thoughts of humanities greatest minds.

Yuvrajv5 9y ago

For inspiration: http://zenpencils.com/ http://zenpencils.com/

Valk3_ 9y ago

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Dzone yet. https://dzone.com/ https://dzone.com/

spurlock 9y ago

Rabbithole warning: - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome - http://popurls.com http://popurls.com

craigmi 9y ago

wikivoyage is awesome

Fannon 9y ago

I like the curated, summarized "weekly newsletters", one of them is http://javascriptweekly.com/ http://javascriptweekly.com/ but there are more.

kyo3 9y ago

http://abduzeedo.com/tags/daily-inspiration http://abduzeedo.com/tags/daily-inspiration For design

xyzxyz998 9y ago

I visit n-gate.com weekly. I am not very well-aware of stuff outside css/js and lot of people here talk confidently about stuff they have no clue of, unopposed. n-gate reminds me how little people on this site know stuff outside of css/js/business. Rest are clueless wannabes trying to one-up each other. My favorite comment will always be- somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously. I'm sure I'll be downvoted which will be further proof of what I'm saying. Not that I care really. I make an account a week.

mgos 9y ago
one look at n-gate and it looks promising. Thanks.
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mdlap 9y ago
Seems the site is just as opinionated as the worst of HN...
- yorwba 9y ago
  I think it's just clever satire. I especially like the "about" page.
  - xyzxyz998 9y ago
    > Hacker news is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement. I'll also add- it serves as a punching bag for people who can't speak up at their work- they vent their frustrations here by belittling everyone's work.
    - SZJX 9y ago
      I mean this is the nature of the web. But HN is already as good as we can get. You yourself keep coming back as well, apparently. Otherwise do you have an alternative to propose?

nbaksalyar 9y ago

http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ - weekly newsletter about scalability, distributed computing, computer science, and other relevant things. I don't think it gets attention it deserves - it's really, really good and contains wealth of (mostly) timeless information. Also, Reddit. Not the default front-page stuff, of course, but more in-depth and smaller subreddits, such as /r/netsec, /r/financialindependence, or /r/rust - there's a multitude of nice focused communities. Occassionally even /r/programming is more interesting than Hacker News though :)

deepnet 9y ago
FYI you can make clickable subreddit links by using a subdomain, e.g. : http://financialindependence.reddit.com http://financialindependence.reddit.com http://netsec.reddit.com http://netsec.reddit.com http://rust.reddit.com http://rust.reddit.com http://programming.reddit.com http://programming.reddit.com

vvdcect 9y ago

Here is a list I keep for weekend reading Got some of these links from previous HN posts like this.. Not entirely tech sites http://nautil.us/ http://nautil.us/ https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ https://meaningness.com/ https://meaningness.com/ http://slatestarcodex.com/ http://slatestarcodex.com/ http://www.britishpathe.com/ http://www.britishpathe.com/ http://www.atlasobscura.com/ http://www.atlasobscura.com/ https://scholars-stage.blogspot.my https://scholars-stage.blogspot.my http://www.counterpunch.org/ http://www.counterpunch.org/ http://harpers.org/history/ http://harpers.org/history/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/ https://zcomm.org/zmag/ https://zcomm.org/zmag/ https://the-artifice.com https://the-artifice.com https://liliputing.com/ https://liliputing.com/ https://dev.to/ https://dev.to/ http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://stratechery.com/ https://stratechery.com/ http://www.tedunangst.com/inks/ http://www.tedunangst.com/inks/

leephillips 9y ago
I formatted my list with names rather than URLs, but now I see the advantage of doing it your way. At a glance I can see that three of your sites are in my browser history.

JayeshSidhwani 9y ago

http://highscalability.com http://highscalability.com

nikivi 9y ago

https://learn-anything.xyz/ https://learn-anything.xyz/ Mostly because we created it. :)

mgos 9y ago
Can't seem to open this site.

jerat 9y ago

Hacker news

known 9y ago
Recursion

Philipp__ 9y ago

https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs similar to HN but much much more humble in every way. I quite like it. Although I don't have account so I am mostly reading.

elorm 9y ago
Would you like an invite?
- eaurouge 9y ago
  Yes, please. Can you send me one?
  - kzisme 9y ago
    Do you still need an invite?
    - eaurouge 9y ago
      Sorry, didn't see this earlier. Yes, still need one. Thanks! Edit: Oops, turns out I did receive an invite. Thanks, elorm!
      - kzisme 9y ago
        Sent!
      - elorm 9y ago
        Always welcome :)
    - deleted 9y ago
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- Philipp__ 9y ago
  Please, it would be great if you could hook me up with one! Email: filip.miletic at me.com

KC8ZKF 9y ago

http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/ http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/ Definitively non-tech, but full of knowledge and inspiration.

santoshmaharshi 9y ago

Daily - Mostly Tech / Science. I love hacker news as it covers basic science as well. From discovery of planets, to Gene editing. Hacker News :) http://techmeme.com/ http://techmeme.com/ https://slashdot.org/ https://slashdot.org/ Weekly - World http://kottke.org/ http://kottke.org/ https://www.edge.org/ https://www.edge.org/ Youtube App on Ipad, Subscription to Joe Rogen, Tim Ferris, and many others Podcasters like these mostly point out to any random topic under the sun, and the discussion is Deep. Example - check out these podcasts and their discussion on Ethics, AI, Health, Finance and Trump :) Random Facebook - mostly from friends and of personal nature, but I do visit resources they point out

brador 9y ago
You need http://skimfeed.com http://skimfeed.com in your life.
- kzisme 9y ago
  Someone had mentioned skimfeed previously on here, and ever since I have always had a tab of it opened/pinned!
- javitury 9y ago
  An aggregator composed of other news aggregators. As a concept it is great, but it will never come close to platforms like reddit. It's like newspapers, most of them just buy the news from agencies then complain about the decline of the (traditional) industry. An aggregator without curation will be so redundant and boring... Instead look at those places that have something special and make you come back. They all have some differentiating factor. The WSJ from time to time produces high quality non-redundant content. The comments or content produced by users on HN and reddit are sometimes better than the news elsewhere. Curation and the user base confer a site personality. This is why places like HN or reddit are so popular. Reddit offers a very high degree of segmentation to users through subreddit subscriptions. This allows users with perhaps very different personalities to get along by only focusing on things they have in common. Not only that, it incentives users to create, share and enjoy content together. Y combinator has a true commitment to provide a simple platform to a user niche they are interested in. In contrast to the laissez faire curation approach of reddit, the strategy of HN is not as broad but for this specific niche is of higher quality. Although sometimes HN is used for Y combinator's purposes, they don't abuse it and many times the interests are aligned with most of their user base.

mdlap 9y ago

https://theconversation.com/ https://theconversation.com/ - Great source of news and analysis of everything. Articles by academics and researchers. Claims almost always backed with evidence. http://www.kurzweilai.net/ http://www.kurzweilai.net/ - Articles about some of the most interesting bleeding-edge high-tech research. https://arstechnica.com/ https://arstechnica.com/ - Tech and tech-related news.

SZJX 9y ago
Well the conversation might say their claims are backed up etc. but so do most other news outlets of scale. Eventually they still have clear, inevitable political leanings and bias there, just as every other news outlet.
- logingone 9y ago
  Any suggestions for which are the least biased news source?

yorwba 9y ago

The Morning Paper (https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/) is a nice way to learn about research happening outside my own little bubble.

catherinezng 9y ago
I also LOVE the Morning Paper.

kr4 9y ago

Life and everything (non-technical): http://omswami.com http://omswami.com Treasure of practical knowledge right from the mouth of one who has attained enlightenment in the transcidental sense of the word. Biweekly post – 1st and 3rd Saturday every month. Earlier (till about an year ago) for roughly 5 years, it was every Saturday so there's lot of pearls of wisdom in there with amusing tales and jokes to instill the knowledge within.

meagerboss 9y ago

https://www.kenyatalk.com https://www.kenyatalk.com

jerry40 9y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://news.ycombinator.com/news

zeep 9y ago
you don't need the /news
- LyndsySimon 9y ago
  ^ Unintentionally insightful comment :)
  - jerry40 9y ago
    Oh come on, I answered a question about the site I visit every day and got all this.
- jerry40 9y ago
  Yes, I know, it is the url of the "Hacker News" logo, so I've just copied it.

bostik 9y ago

There's of course Ars Technica, but for finance-meets-technology-meets-basic-socioeconomics nothing beats Matt Levine's Money Stuff. Archive and RSS feed link here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff

monk_e_boy 9y ago

http://spectrum.ieee.org http://spectrum.ieee.org

leephillips 9y ago

A few sites from my newsfeed (I use Newsblur): Hacker News (of course) LWN Ars Technica Angry Asian Man Climate Denial Crock of the Week Cool Tools Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain ESA Top News (Euro. Space Agency) Jewish Daily Forward Jonesblog (retinal neuroscientist and photographer:http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/about/) NASA Image of the Day Physical Review Letters Not Even Wrong Planet Clojure RealClimate Retraction Watch New York Times WTOP (local news) Schneier on Security Slate Star Codex Space Safety Magazine CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (highly recommended) Stories from the trauma bay

Pandabob 9y ago

Hacker News, Marginal Revolution and the Financial Times. Reddit mostly for leisure, but occasionally also for knowledge and inspiration. Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.

great_psy 9y ago
I tried doing the same thing, now on my laptop I've installed Redirector chrome extension[0]. Every time I try going on Reddit or HN I get a random wiki article. I've found myself using my phone more often, or incognito(extension disabled) to browse those sites. [0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiegeliagebegjdhebejdlknciafen https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege...

theklub 9y ago

Youtube

comboy 9y ago
Not sure why it's downvoted. That was my first thought too. There are tons of educational videos, lectures and inspiring interviews. If you keep watching this kind of stuff recommendations also get quite reasonable.
- boramalper 9y ago
  Yeah but it's like saying "the Web". You should mention some channels, playlists, etc. at the very least. =)
  - comboy 9y ago
    Fair enough. There was some recent thread about it lately but I can't find it at the moment. Here's an older one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
  - mindcrime 9y ago
    Fair point: MIT OpenCourseware channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw Stanford online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa5G_ESCn8Yd4vw5U-gIcg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa5G_ESCn8Yd4vw5U-gIcg Professor Leonard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg NPTEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640y4UvDAlya_WOj5U4pfA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640y4UvDAlya_WOj5U4pfA Spark Summit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw All Things Open: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBhXFK70DbOU15N2BhDQVTg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBhXFK70DbOU15N2BhDQVTg etc., etc., etc.
mindcrime 9y ago

jonathansizz 9y ago

A couple that haven't yet been mentioned: American Scientist (distinct from Scientific American) [https://www.americanscientist.org/ https://www.americanscientist.org/] for science, engineering and technology. Foreign Affairs [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/] for international relations and politics. although I actually switched back to reading these (and others) in ink-on-paper format, which I've found helps me focus much better. EDIT: Also, Philosophy Now [https://philosophynow.org/ https://philosophynow.org/] for more abstract ideas. These are bimonthly publications, and all worth paying money for.

agumonkey 9y ago

My library physics books section.

fsloth 9y ago

I hate newsflood. I figure if it's important enough it will either float up to news.ycombinator.com or to the Economist (which I order-but I tend to listen most of the articles as the audio comes free for subscribers and is of excellent quality). I try to read books nowadays more than random blogposts. Makes my monkeybrain happier (and I secretly wish wiser).

ryanstorm 9y ago
We're subscribed to the same newsfeeds. In addition, I only look at hacker news through the weekly newsletter, in order to avoid the dopamine addiction of checking multiple times a day. As for the The Economist, I've found that they always gives a great dose of history and context to their articles, which is what I would be searching for in reddit anyway, so I've found reddit to be a lot less useful nowadays.

apancik 9y ago

Some time ago I built https://10hn.pancik.com/ https://10hn.pancik.com/ to aggregate and rank interesting articles and make them easily readable on the phone. There are days when I don't read anything else, just swiping through 10HN reading few long reads.

kzisme 9y ago
Not sure if you care, but when first opening the website - hitting the right arrow doesn't work (you have to click first). Also down arrow doesn't scroll as expected (maybe this is intentional).
- apancik 9y ago
  Thank you! I definitely care and it's on my todo list. I use it mainly on a phone so naturally I keep forgetting to get to it.

du_bing 9y ago

Hacker News GitHub Twitter Quora.com Zhihu.com(Chinese) And various RSS feeds and emails from MIT, IDC, personal blog, DoD and etc..

hector_ka 9y ago

popurls.com

forg0t_username 9y ago

That might look a bit cliché, but once in a while I'll Google stuff I'm curious about and for which I have absolutely no background. Reading academic reviews and looking up the vocabulary on the fly is a great way to stay humble.

IgorPartola 9y ago
This. Especially when I realize that there is a thing the explanation for which was given to me by someone way before either of us had access to the internet and before Google existed (I am getting old I guess). Like whether eating onions helps stave off a cold. Or how a distributed in a car works. Or whether Nissans are actually reliable or not. Or if you need higher than minimum recommended octane rating in your car. Or why most of Europe uses 240V in their outlets. Or what actually happened in Chernobyl.

garysieling 9y ago

Nautilus - http://nautil.us/ http://nautil.us/ - Science magazine with great art The Economist - https://www.economist.com/ https://www.economist.com/ - I like that they do articles about places all over the world Find Lectures - https://www.findlectures.com/ https://www.findlectures.com/ - Search engine focused on collecting talks I also collect book recommendations from HN, people I follow on Twitter in an Amazon wishlist.

krylon 9y ago

Might sound dull, but I recommend Wikipedia. There is a word for it, which I forgot, when you look something up on Wikipedia, the article contains a link to another article, and you go, "Oooh, that sounds interesting", open it in another tab, then, when reading the second article, you come across two or three more of such links, and before you know what is going on, you have dozens of tabs open. The only limit is your patience and your computer's RAM. Eventually you'll end up reading articles that are not even remotely related to your initial inquiry, but highly interesting nonetheless.

zengr 9y ago
I agree. I was pleasantly surprised by the Wikipedia iOS app, it's really addictive https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8
orb_yt 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/214/ https://xkcd.com/214/ An interesting side note: if you repeatedly click the first link at the beginning of any wikipedia article (except links in parenthesis) you will always end up at Philosophy.
- horns13 9y ago
  I started with 'God of War (2018 video game)' and ended up at 'Philosophy'!
- hithereagain 9y ago
  If you start with Mathematics, you'll end up in a loop: Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematics. Ignoring this backlink, though, it would work: Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude (mathematics) > Mathematical object > Abstract and concrete > Referent > Linguistics > Science > Knowledge > Fact > Verificationism > Philosophy
  - amenod 9y ago
    Also, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Internationaux_de_Strasbourg_%E2%80%93_Doubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Internationaux_de_Strasbo... (random page) you get into loop around "Languages". But if the algorithm should ignore the already visited links then it would probably work because the pages usually describe something using the higher level concepts first. The question is how much larger the pool of "always found" pages becomes.

msnangersme 9y ago

Google News - Love how it aggregates news across multiple sources. Google Trends - To understand what people are searching for Reddit - Treasure trove of opinions and insights Hacker News - Quality tech news and opinions For my own use, I built a simple site to browse all of these sites from one place effectively: https://newsfeed.one/ https://newsfeed.one/

copperx 9y ago
You lost me at > Hacker News - Quality tech news and opinions
- HiroshiSan 9y ago
  we all love to rag on HN (myself included) yet we all keep comin' back.
  - SZJX 9y ago
    I mean this is the nature of the web. To be honest HN is already the best we can get compared with most alternatives. That's why.
praveenbeatle 9y ago
May I ask what tools you used to built that ?

mindslight 9y ago

Hacker News, imgur, slickdeals. Also, mu.

robschia 9y ago

Aeon: https://aeon.co https://aeon.co Stunning art, beautiful and thoughtful essays, ideas and videos.

spurlock 9y ago

Rabbithole warning: - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome - http://popurls.com http://popurls.com

DonaldDerek 9y ago

http://cdm.link/ http://cdm.link/ Create Digital Music

zatkin 9y ago

- HN - Lobste.rs - Reddit (occasionally) - Google News (rarely) I find myself reading a lot more books in person though, namely educational books about topics I'm unfamiliar with or want to review. I think it's important to read about something that you don't know about but want to learn more about, e.g. for me: economics.

zwieback 9y ago

crookedtimber.org

ptr_void 9y ago

- Daily, the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos - HN - A whole bunch of other site/blog/channels as feed that I look at when I have time.

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DonaldDerek 9y ago

http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/ http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/ Great tumblr, suggested by a close friend.

kiot 9y ago

Google Arts & Culture. https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/ https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/

sellislem 9y ago

mostly tech news from hacker news and tech explicit ( http://techexplicit.tk http://techexplicit.tk )

wav-part 9y ago

One that I have not seen mentioned yet: https://phys.org/ https://phys.org/.

ivm 9y ago

https://sidebar.io/ https://sidebar.io/ for getting better at design

phaedrus-mg 9y ago

HN and reddit emacs ( and now thanks to you all a lot more)

praveenbeatle 9y ago

Medium - https://medium.com/ https://medium.com/ MIT Technology Review - https://www.technologyreview.com/ https://www.technologyreview.com/ Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/ https://www.bloomberg.com/ Audible(Once a Month) - http://www.audible.com/ http://www.audible.com/ Waking Up Podcast by Sam Harris -https://www.samharris.org/podcast https://www.samharris.org/podcast

dmytrish 9y ago

A few years ago it was https://coursera.org https://coursera.org - they were a powerful beacon of high-quality knowledge first-hand from world-class experts. I still try to learn as much as possible there, but my feeling of the site being intrusively optimized for business and short-term gain is increasing every day.

mindcrash 9y ago

Farnam Street @ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/: "Farnam Street is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life. We address such topics as mental models, decision making, learning, reading, and the art of living."

rami 9y ago

http://workhack.com/finance http://workhack.com/finance

FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago

https://gwern.net https://gwern.net and https://atlasobscura.com https://atlasobscura.com For inspiration on UI, I browse https://dribbble.com https://dribbble.com https://codepen.io https://codepen.io and https://uplabs.com https://uplabs.com

radicality 9y ago
+1 for gwern, I enjoy his monthly newsletter. Still not sure how that guy gets so much reading and writing done

kongolongo 9y ago

Blogs by cs profs.. mostly theory of compsci guys. Always interesting to see what they think about current events/ what latest cs theory stuff is like...although often times I can only recall a couple words in their posts from the discrete math courses all those years ago. http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ is a pretty good one

JW_00000 9y ago
Do you have more recommendations except that one?
- ASipos 9y ago
  Scott Aaronson's blog is solid.

pera 9y ago

This is my favorite one: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/ Quanta articles are always extremely enlightening, interesting and well written.

sassy_samurai 9y ago
Yup, I think Quanta and Nautilus feature the best science writing in the world.

chatman 9y ago

tjalfi 9y ago

I visit Raymond Chen's blog[0] every weekday. He posts content on Windows internals, Win32 APIs, and explanations for Windows behavior. If you program for Win32 then reading his blog will identify bugs in your code[1]. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ [1] http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=57 http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=57 Edited for formatting and to omit needless words

relevant_thing 9y ago

http://www.aldaily.com http://www.aldaily.com

cpete 9y ago

https://longform.org/ https://longform.org/ Curated collections of long-form journalism. Edit: Forgot to add Codex 99, '...an occasionally updated website about art, design and history, except when it’s about something else altogether." http://www.codex99.com http://www.codex99.com

Jpoechill 9y ago

HN, Recode, TheVerge, Pinterest, SBNation, ESPN. I guess I like sports? :)

mmphosis 9y ago

http://thesunmagazine.org/ http://thesunmagazine.org/

slantaclaus 9y ago

http://www.ted.com http://www.ted.com. It's pretty hit and miss, but I've gotten a ton of inspiration and knowledge from this website since 2008.

boneheadmed 9y ago

You can't beat Rush Limbaugh with transcripts and audio. Premium membership is even better: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com https://www.rushlimbaugh.com

sukhadatkeereo 9y ago

I find books about topics that I'm interested in learning more as the best source of knowledge or inspiration. Consider the book 'Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture' as an excellent source of Japanese culture and food habits. I have learnt so much from this fascinating book and it's a great source of inspiration too.

brianchan 9y ago

quora, medium, hacker news.

FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago

Not a site per say, but I check out PBS Digital Studios daily on youtube. Namely: Infinite Series - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g (I never thought I would find a math series one of my favorite channels) SpaceTime - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g Crash Course - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q When done properly, web video/animated content can greatly enhance learning abstract, obtuse material and can be worth 1000 words per second. From Infinite Series, I finally got the gist of quantum computing.

b3b0p 9y ago

I try to limit it to the following: US Gamer: https://www.usgamer.net https://www.usgamer.net Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com https://www.giantbomb.com (I'm premium subscriber) Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com https://arstechnica.com NeoGAF: https://www.neogaf.com https://www.neogaf.com (I try not to sometimes as it's a time sink, but it's fun, mindless and stressless.) and Hacker News of course. I try to stay away from Reddit and as it's a time sink for me and I find can stress me mentally.

narak 9y ago

http://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.metafilter.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ http://www.econlib.org/ http://www.econlib.org/, https://www.cato.org/ https://www.cato.org/, https://mises.org/ https://mises.org/ (disclaimer: austrian econ slant)

chillingeffect 9y ago

Some of the only decent writing I ever see on the web: http://popehat.com http://popehat.com It's brief, unapologetic, patient explanations about specific cases in law that touch on popular topics. It really shows how non-black-and-white the world is and especially how bringing knowledge to it gives you clarity, even when you're not in total agreement.

kureikain 9y ago

I mostly uses Hacker News. From there, it leads me to site such as HighScalability, then Medium engineering blog of company or individual developer. Once you like something, they suggest other thing and I go from there. I also try to visit engineering blog of company that I like such as Github, Etsy, Segment, Stripe and learn from their blog. They usually have very good article about what really happening at a real company and what they do to solve. Then I also use Youtube, subscirbe to Confreaks, and again, whenever I like some video, they suggest something very close to what I like. Then sometimes ago, I started to collect links and realize I should share with the world and start this site: https://betterdev.link/ https://betterdev.link/