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Ask HN: What are the 5 websites you visit almost daily?
- tmsh 9y ago- Product Hunt (via new Chrome tab) - Hacker News - gmail (including weekly dev/indie newsletters for iOS, React and ML) - [reddit, twitter or facebook every other day] - [college/alumni private forum] I've heard before most people have 4 common sites and 1 long tail site. I think level of engagement is another dimension too. I probably have the most engagement on gmail. (And of course the majority of my online communication is via Slack.)
- cuchoi 9y ago- Reddit - Hacker News - Twitter - Local news sites In that order of frequency
- goshx 9y agoHacker News Reddit Twitter Google Woot
- codewritinfool 9y agohacker news is always in a tab, flowdock, github, then occasionally reddit and a few other forums.
- refrigerator 9y ago- Hacker News - Facebook - Gmail - Google Search - GitHub
- ankeshanand 9y agoTwitter, Reddit, Facebook, HN, Twitch
- stephengillie 9y agoAt work it's HN, cloud service, ticket system, internal KB system, time logging service, chat service (if it has a web client), and search engine. At home it's YouTube, Imgur, random Powershell pages, my bot's web output, and "science" videos.
- movedx 9y agoCan you tell us more about your "bot's web output"? I've been going over an idea, on and off, around having some automated system scrape pages for me, stripping them down into something much leaner so I can offline them and load them up whenever I like. Is this what you have going on here?
- stephengillie 9y agoIt's not quite that fancy - she's just a loop switching over an RNG, looking up words against a random API, and speaking the output. The input words come from my clipboard, any errors she generates, and randomly from her word:meaning database. The APIs are Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia, and DDG's Instant Answers. She finds some very interesting definitions. Instead of writing to a console, she writes her output to a web page - along with using the .NET libraries to speak, if my phone's MAC address is on the same LAN as her. She waits a random amount of time before speaking again, and the webpage has a simple meta tag set to refresh in the same number of seconds.
- cjjuice 9y ago- hacker news - github - facebook - chess.com - jira
- taytus 9y agoTwitter || Hacker News || Gmail || Google Analytics || Trello
- spyre 9y agoHacker News Khan Academy 4chan, especially /g/ College forum MIT OCW.
- mos_basik 9y agoHad to scroll halfway through the thread to find a 4chan. My Time Tracker Chrome extension says these 5 are the top for my past 30 days of browser activity on my personal laptop: 2d 22h - 9.63% |===================> Discord (friends from an Eve Online corp) 2d 12h - 8.24% |================> 4chan (mostly the motorcycle thread on /o/ the past few months) 2d 1h - 6.71% |=============> Google 1d 10h - 4.75% |==========> Hacker News 1d 7h - 4.34% |=========> Google Music (last.fm has 522 plays total, 17/day avg over past 30 days)
- jackbravo 9y ago- hacker news - reddit - google keep - gmail - trello
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- 0xFFC 9y agoHN Github Reddit Quora Slack (don't know this count as site or app)
- relics443 9y agoisraelnationalnews.com foxnews.com hckrnews.com patspulpit.com I guess there's no fifth...
- daptaq 9y agoIn no particular order: HN | Lobste.rs (even though I have no account there) | YouTube | Wikipedia | 8chan
- sauronlord 9y agoHow come no one mentioned the porn site they visit? Bunch of liars
- Fomite 9y agoThe Academia StackExchange site, Reddit, RPG.net, Bell of Lost Souls, HN
- gerred 9y ago- github - HN - arxiv - reddit - trello
- isostatic 9y agoBbc news Trekbbs Hacker news Facebook Usually YouTube
- room505 9y agoOffice365.com, bogleheads.com, wsj.com, arstechnica.com, androidpolice.com
- donatj 9y ago- Digg - HN - Reddit - GitHub - Gmail I might be the only person who never stopped using Digg, but I actually really like their new "Curated Posts" mode of operation.
- booleandilemma 9y agoI'm surprised I don't see more people putting Stack Overflow.
- dwringer 9y agoSomething tells me people are self-censoring these results. And I ain't just talkin' StackOverflow.
- mos_basik 9y agoYou just made me remember the tracking extension I installed a while back that now allows me to answer OP with a conscience clear of self-censoring and false memory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872769). Thanks! Incidentally, StackOverflow is in 8th place for me, behind Youtube (6th) and the Chrome New Tab page (7th).
- amelius 9y agoPerhaps it's because people mostly end up on StackOverflow by coincidence, e.g. when doing a Google search. I suppose it's not really a site that people consciously visit.
- roryisok 9y agoI would second this. I visit stack overflow multiple times a day always from a search result.
- burkemw3 9y agoGoogle Search, Gmail, Hacker News, Reddit, WSJ, NY Times, Google Play Music
- bandamo 9y ago- Hacker News - Google - Stackoverflow
- smaili 9y agofor (i = 0; i < 5; i++) print "Hacker News" :)
- eljimmy 9y agoAn interesting spin to this question would be "What are 5 websites you once visited daily but now no longer visit?" To answer my own alternate question: Biggest one for me would be Slashdot. It was once a great site for tech news. I feel as though HN is the Slashdot of the present.
- beefsack 9y agoI think a lot of people here would be in the same boat with Slashdot. For me: - Slashdot - Facebook - AltaVista - Google Reader - BeyondUnreal
- brassattax 9y agoSlashdot, Google Reader, del.icio.us, Yahoo! Games, MSNBC
- yodon 9y agoSlashdot would be pretty high on that list for me, but I still find there is a class of editor-selected article that slashdot pulls up that sites like HN miss. HN publishes faster, but in a more clique-based way. Slashdot publishes slower but sometimes catching useful things the clique missed.
- zackmorris 9y agoIt's like a snapshot of 10-15 years ago haha: - http://fark.com/ - http://geekculture.com/joyoftech/ - http://pcweenies.com/ - http://theonion.com/ - http://collegehumor.com/ - http://jnaudin.free.fr/ - http://snap.com/
- dewey 9y agoWhat.CD
- QuantumQweef 9y agodidn't know you were into necro?
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- bandamo 9y ago- Hacker News - Google - Stackoverflow
- nidx 9y agoHN, ARS, Vox, The Verge, YouTube
- shujito 9y agoin no particular order: - HN - FB - TW - SO - ...And google?
- anonnyj 9y agoHN (via app) Twitter (via application) 4chan (/vg/) Stack Exchange Google (image search)
- jghn 9y agoFacebook, Twitter, HN, Reddit, Google (including gsuite stuff)
- yodon 9y agohttp://serializer.io/ http://serializer.io/ (combo feed of most of the sites I used to hit, including HN... saves huge amounts of time) http://www.memeorandum.com/m/ http://www.memeorandum.com/m/ (newest addition, heard about it on FiveThirtyEight, so far I'm impressed with the quality of the newsfeed) http://drudgereport.com/ http://drudgereport.com/ (I don't buy into drudge's politics but he buys ink by the gallon and it's important to read outside your bubble, whatever that happens to be) http://fivethirtyeight.com/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/ https://stratechery.com/ https://stratechery.com/
- burntrelish1273 9y agoThey say Drudge is the gateway drug to InfoWars. ;P
- anon4728 9y agoLOL. Thom Hartmann reads Drudge for the GP's reason, but I think Drudge's popularity is undeserved given the speculative, clickbait, desperate and bottom-dwelling tabloid rumormill that it is. I use https://skimfeed.com https://skimfeed.com for tech news aggregation.
- muzani 9y agoIt sounds like information overload if you really visit all these sites every day?
- yodon 9y agoI built that list to prevent information overload - I realized I was burning huge amounts of time inefficiently re-checking large numbers of sites throughout the day (refresh the HN page often?). Having trained myself to hit just these sites for my news, I've recovered a great deal of time and flow back into my day, because unlike the HN page or Reddit these change more slowly and more predictably, reducing the need to constantly scan through tons of titles in a page to look for what's new.
- ccdev 9y ago
- RealityNow 9y agoHN, Reddit, Google/Gmail, Reuters, Bloomberg, Facebook
- KineticLensman 9y agoAt home: Hacker News, Deviant Art, Xkcd, The Guardian, Gmail Fascinating how we are all divulging all this info...
- koala_man 9y agoSuggestion: post a single site per comment, to allow upvoting the ~5 you visit daily.
- rffn 9y agomy own tt-rss instance, Twitter, Skimfeed, Stack Overflow, Spotify
- nikivi 9y ago- https://learn-anything.xyz/ https://learn-anything.xyz/ (Community curated knowledge graph) - https://github.com/ https://github.com/ (code) - http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ (news) - http://www.reddit.com/ http://www.reddit.com/ (follow few small communities) - http://lobste.rs/ http://lobste.rs/ (news)
- seorphates 9y agoduckduckgo hackernews whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday arstechnica wavecam/buouy reports/any but these are just for today, I can't remember yesterday.
- tomericco 9y agoNo one visits PornHub? Come on, guys...
- teekno 9y ago- https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ (chronologic view for HN) - https://lichess.org/ https://lichess.org/ (prefer this to chess.com) - http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first (start my morning with this news podcast) - https://www.reddit.com/ https://www.reddit.com/ - https://twitter.com https://twitter.com
- joveian 9y agohttp://www.oregonlive.com/ http://www.oregonlive.com/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/radley-balko https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/radley-balko https://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/ https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/matt-taibbi https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/matt-taibbi https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/americas/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/americas/index.html https://www.theskanner.com/ https://www.theskanner.com/ Also potentially interesting is the method of getting to them daily. I use favicon-only bookmarks on the same line as tabs in firefox. What do other folks do?
- MikeTV 9y agoMine are in a bookmark folder. Middle-clicking the folder opens all of its contents in new tabs.
- Yetanfou 9y ago- my personal news aggregator, fed by dozens of different sources, branching out to hundreds. - Google The rest varies from day to day, depending on what i'm working on. It can be anything from Github to Sci-Hub and everything in between. I'm currently restoring and expanding a 17th century farm house so add sites about swapping rotten logs in a log house to the mix ('just lift the house, remove the rotten bits and put fresh logs in'. Which works fine, task accomplished using 2 €40 20 ton capacity hydraulic bottle jacks and some logs I had lying around).
- felixthehat 9y agoI'd be interested to see your personal news aggregator – I too made myself a personally customised one – https://readspike.com https://readspike.com – anyone else make their own after the death of Google reader?
- Yetanfou 9y agoThe software is nothing special and can be installed by anyone: Nextcloud [1] running the News [2] app. The virtue of the thing is that you can point it at any RSS/Atom feed you want and have the result appear in categories of your choice. This is not limited to 'news' of course, any type of feed will work. I use it to keep up with activities on selected Github repos, commits show up as news items in the feed. There are accompanying apps for mobile devices but I tend to rely on the web interface even when using something mobile. [1] https://nextcloud.com/ https://nextcloud.com/ [2] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news
- felixthehat 9y agoOh that is nice, I'll try testing that out locally, thanks!
- kawera 9y agoSuper neat! Is it open source?
- CM30 9y agoMy two forum sites, Gmail, Discord and YouTube. Though that's less 'almost daily' and more 'every twenty minutes or so'. I would include Hacker News in there too, but hey, I visit that somewhat less than the sites listed above. Same with Medium, The Admin Zone and various subreddits.
- notgoodrobot 9y agoReddit | HN | Google services | YouTube (probably should be included with Google services) | ShareTheWub (side project)
- mrmondo 9y ago- My RSS feeds (I use feedly for this) - HN - Twitter - Fastmail - GitLab
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agohttps://feedly.com https://feedly.com (so Ars Technica, Reuters, The AP feed, Youtube, the IACR preprint feed, physorg, etc, etc. Big list here) https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ https://calendar.google.com/ https://calendar.google.com/ https://mail.google.com/ https://mail.google.com/ An old forum with a small group of people. Of no interest to most.
- lgats 9y ago- https://hackerne.ws https://hackerne.ws - https://reddit.com/r/technology/new https://reddit.com/r/technology/new - https://reddit.com/r/worldnews https://reddit.com/r/worldnews - https://reddit.com/r/news https://reddit.com/r/news - https://fccid.io https://fccid.io
- taysic 9y agoft.com in addition to others mentioned
- oblib 9y agoNOAA Weather Reuters News AP News Facebook Hacker News Science Bulletin http://www.mrboffo.com/wdaily.html http://www.mrboffo.com/wdaily.html (I know, that's not 5, but I have those bookmarked and open them all in tabs at the same time and peruse them all most everyday.)
- anotherevan 9y agoNewsBlur which is my RSS reader, which of course leads me to many other sites including HN (via an hnapp.com generated feed). GoldToken.com and DailyGammon.com for ongoing games of Backgammon. Facebook. StartPage.com is my go to search engine (basically a front end for Google without the bubble and with more privacy).
- tmaly 9y agohttp://indiehackers.com http://indiehackers.com https://bestfoodnearme.com https://bestfoodnearme.com google.com reddit.com news.ycombinator.com
- muzani 9y agoOh wow, indiehackers is amazing ️
- luord 9y agoStackoverflow theoldreader Google Inbox Facebook Twitter
- askafriend 9y agoSurprising that Instagram is on no one's list here. I visit Instagram daily. Sure, I use the app but I think that counts as "website" in a broad sense.
- codegladiator 9y ago- Github - HN - Regexer - JSON Validator - Stackoverflow
- miguelrochefort 9y ago- Hacker News - Reddit - The Verge - YouTube - Gmail
- eswat 9y agohttps://mail.google.com/ https://mail.google.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ http://www.allgamesdelta.net/ http://www.allgamesdelta.net/ and I can only think of a fourth, which is my web IRC client which then feeds me links for the rest of the day (in some channels across freenode and gamesurge)
- x009 9y agoPYTHON GITHUB HN REDDIT TWITTER
- julox 9y ago- twitter.com,gmail.com,google.com.... - my_rss_reader.personaldomain.org (I have a project in google app engine named goread.io for my personal rss) - myraspberry.dyndns.com(I use dyndns to acces to my raspberry, I have a simple ssh server ) - meneame.com (spanish reddit)