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The best sites for content

54 points by kinnth 16y ago

I love hacker news and I check it everyday for a stream of great information. I was wondering what other sites do people use for other really good content, it doesn't have to be business related. Not the common, digg, reddit etc, but the underground ones :P

cli 16y ago
3quarksdaily.com, aldaily.com
mixmax 16y ago
http://www.charlierose.com/ http://www.charlierose.com/ Intelligent one hour long interviews with interesting people. Charlie Rose is a great interviewer, and actually lets people express their full opinion on a subject without cutting them off. I don't know how he does it but he gets to interview all sorts of famous intellectuals, artists and business leaders. From Paul Krugman and Jeff Bezos to Michael Caine and Dennis hopper. There are several new interviews every week and the back catalog will keep you entertained for months.
- petervandijck 16y ago
  "I don't know how he does it" I think you've answered your own question there: "Charlie Rose is a great interviewer, and actually lets people express their full opinion on a subject without cutting them off." Everyone loves being really listened to.
  - mishmash 16y ago
    > Everyone loves being really listened to. That's interesting. Tell me why you think that is? ;)
    - fezzl 16y ago
      Because we're self-centered pricks by nature.
      - petervandijck 16y ago
        So you think we'e self-centered pricks by nature? Tell me more!
    - petervandijck 16y ago
      Good one ;)
paulgb 16y ago
Quora.
p0ppe 16y ago
http://www.kottke.org/ http://www.kottke.org/
Dramatize 16y ago
popurls.com, videosift.com & HN are my everyday websites. drawar.com is also good for web design.
Zakuzaa 16y ago
Mixergy.com
idiotb 16y ago
http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/ www.steveblank.com www.startuplessonslearned.com
donohoe 16y ago
I hit TimesWire to see whats happening 'now': http://www.nytimes.com/timeswire/ http://www.nytimes.com/timeswire/ I also swing by Kottke's blog: http://kottke.org/ http://kottke.org/
yoasif_ 16y ago
Since you are looking -- http://quippd.com http://quippd.com Disclaimer, it is my project (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934) but I'm trying to stock it with good stuff. Hope you browse.
- svrs 16y ago
  I would love to ask you some questions about your site, if that's possible?
  - yoasif_ 16y ago
    Go for it!
- woodall 16y ago
  Hmm, site looks down- http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quippd.com http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quippd.com.
  - yoasif_ 16y ago
    Yeah -- not really sure why we had the outage, and we may go down again tomorrow to figure out what went wrong -- we are running in debug mode right now, so it might be slower than it should be.
    - woodall 16y ago
      Now that it is back up I am impressed! I was able to see it a while back- when it was hosted on your local box- but now, all I can say is great work. I hope you fixed the code injection bug I had informed you of back then ;).
      - yoasif_ 16y ago
        Thanks! I think we fixed it, but if we haven't -- privately message me? :P
FiReaNG3L 16y ago
esciencenews.com :D
Concours 16y ago
http://www.mcsquare.me/ http://www.mcsquare.me/ , http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/
Perceval 16y ago
Arts & Letters Daily. Lots of great long-form stuff: http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/
eru 16y ago
I have an Economist subscription. Reading on paper still beats reading on screen.
shmeedogg 16y ago
http://longform.org/ http://longform.org/
niekmaas 16y ago
I like to read http://www.newsweek.com http://www.newsweek.com for international politics topics. Their articles on the the Afghanistant/Pakistan region are very interesting to read.
karzeem 16y ago
http://bloggingheads.tv http://bloggingheads.tv for politics and philosophy (great if you're a Robert Wright fan) http://bigthink.com http://bigthink.com for long, focused interviews with smart people http://longform.org http://longform.org for good magazine pieces http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php for phenomenally good magazine pieces http://reason.com http://reason.com if you suspect yourself of having libertarian tendencies
shortformblog 16y ago
You could always read http://shortformblog.com http://shortformblog.com </shamelessselfpromotion> But in all seriousness, I find myself here a lot, along with: http://mediaite.com/ http://mediaite.com/ <-- Good, video-heavy political coverage http://reuters.com/ http://reuters.com/ <-- News is good. And as wire services go, they're the most underrated. Also a big fan of http://longform.org http://longform.org, which is ironic because of my own site's name. http://apple.copydesk.org/ http://apple.copydesk.org/ <-- Visual journalism blogger Charles Apple, who I read daily and who inspired me to do my own blog http://www.theatlanticwire.com/ http://www.theatlanticwire.com/ <-- An always-interesting aggregator of political opinion. The bloggers on The Atlantic proper, esp. Andrew Sullivan, I'm a huge fan of.
ubernostrum 16y ago
In my opinion, Metafilter is what HN wishes it could be, and is full of both more interesting content and usually better discussion.
astrofinch 16y ago
http://lesswrong.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ to improve rationality
ddoonie 16y ago
zerohedge.com ---> everything finance related
holdupadam 16y ago
http://the-diplomat.com http://the-diplomat.com | for politics in Asia. http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/ | for random goodness. http://lifehacker.com http://lifehacker.com | for me.
photon_off 16y ago
I couldn't resist a shameless plug for my search engine that I recently launched: http://www.moreofit.com http://www.moreofit.com I often find myself in need of an answer to the question: what are the most popular sites that have to do with x, y, and z? If you're looking for high quality websites about something, just type in a few keywords and have a go. Sorting by popularity (# times bookmarked on delicious) has turned out to incredibly useful, as it's highly correlated with quality. Also, I suggest that if you find any website that you like a lot you query it and see what comes up. Often times there'll be something even better... Or worse. (Did you know there are like 10 urbandictionary clones that all suck yet somehow manage to sustain themselves?) To answer your original question: wikipedia, urban dictionary, metafilter, news, pg essays, past and present Harper's indexes, tech/startup/entrepreneur blogs, TED and fora, and once inawhile popurls.
v21 16y ago
http://www.lrb.co.uk/ http://www.lrb.co.uk/ Long form essays that really aren't afraid to engage with an idea. Also, you should check out the personals section, as they are a lesson in wit. And obviously http://www.nybooks.com/ http://www.nybooks.com/ , too.
imgabe 16y ago
http://greaterdebater.com/ http://greaterdebater.com/ Disclaimer: This is my site. It's about as underground as it gets, considering only myself and a few of my friends use it. I stick things here that I find interesting, so you'll enjoy it if you have the same tastes as I do ;) Feel free to post anything you like as well, if you care to.
dirtyaura 16y ago
Edge http://edge.org/ http://edge.org/ Articles, opinion pieces and discussion about science by top scientists. Often with a philosophical twist.
- rada 16y ago
  One of my favorites, especially the 2007 edition where 160 leading scientists, philosophers, programmers etc. answer the question, What Are You Optimistic About And Why? http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html
mkanemoto 16y ago
GigaOM (telco), kottke (internets), kk's cool tools (DIY), arXiv (science), cluserflock (internets), Smashing Magazine (graphic design)
some1else 16y ago
Wow. Thanks for the thread. http://videolectures.net http://videolectures.net for highly academic content regarding Machine Learning, Statistics and other Computer Science subjects.
seven 16y ago
http://scienceblogs.com/ http://scienceblogs.com/

54 points by kinnth 16y ago

cli 16y ago

3quarksdaily.com, aldaily.com

mixmax 16y ago

http://www.charlierose.com/ http://www.charlierose.com/ Intelligent one hour long interviews with interesting people. Charlie Rose is a great interviewer, and actually lets people express their full opinion on a subject without cutting them off. I don't know how he does it but he gets to interview all sorts of famous intellectuals, artists and business leaders. From Paul Krugman and Jeff Bezos to Michael Caine and Dennis hopper. There are several new interviews every week and the back catalog will keep you entertained for months.

petervandijck 16y ago
"I don't know how he does it" I think you've answered your own question there: "Charlie Rose is a great interviewer, and actually lets people express their full opinion on a subject without cutting them off." Everyone loves being really listened to.
- mishmash 16y ago
  > Everyone loves being really listened to. That's interesting. Tell me why you think that is? ;)
  - fezzl 16y ago
    Because we're self-centered pricks by nature.
    - petervandijck 16y ago
      So you think we'e self-centered pricks by nature? Tell me more!
  - petervandijck 16y ago
    Good one ;)

paulgb 16y ago

Quora.

p0ppe 16y ago

http://www.kottke.org/ http://www.kottke.org/

Dramatize 16y ago

popurls.com, videosift.com & HN are my everyday websites. drawar.com is also good for web design.

Zakuzaa 16y ago

Mixergy.com

idiotb 16y ago

http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/ www.steveblank.com www.startuplessonslearned.com

donohoe 16y ago

I hit TimesWire to see whats happening 'now': http://www.nytimes.com/timeswire/ http://www.nytimes.com/timeswire/ I also swing by Kottke's blog: http://kottke.org/ http://kottke.org/

yoasif_ 16y ago

Since you are looking -- http://quippd.com http://quippd.com Disclaimer, it is my project (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934) but I'm trying to stock it with good stuff. Hope you browse.

svrs 16y ago
I would love to ask you some questions about your site, if that's possible?
- yoasif_ 16y ago
  Go for it!
woodall 16y ago
Hmm, site looks down- http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quippd.com http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quippd.com.
- yoasif_ 16y ago
  Yeah -- not really sure why we had the outage, and we may go down again tomorrow to figure out what went wrong -- we are running in debug mode right now, so it might be slower than it should be.
  - woodall 16y ago
    Now that it is back up I am impressed! I was able to see it a while back- when it was hosted on your local box- but now, all I can say is great work. I hope you fixed the code injection bug I had informed you of back then ;).
    - yoasif_ 16y ago
      Thanks! I think we fixed it, but if we haven't -- privately message me? :P

FiReaNG3L 16y ago

esciencenews.com :D

Concours 16y ago

http://www.mcsquare.me/ http://www.mcsquare.me/ , http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/

Perceval 16y ago

Arts & Letters Daily. Lots of great long-form stuff: http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/

eru 16y ago

I have an Economist subscription. Reading on paper still beats reading on screen.

shmeedogg 16y ago

http://longform.org/ http://longform.org/

niekmaas 16y ago

I like to read http://www.newsweek.com http://www.newsweek.com for international politics topics. Their articles on the the Afghanistant/Pakistan region are very interesting to read.

karzeem 16y ago

http://bloggingheads.tv http://bloggingheads.tv for politics and philosophy (great if you're a Robert Wright fan) http://bigthink.com http://bigthink.com for long, focused interviews with smart people http://longform.org http://longform.org for good magazine pieces http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php for phenomenally good magazine pieces http://reason.com http://reason.com if you suspect yourself of having libertarian tendencies

shortformblog 16y ago

You could always read http://shortformblog.com http://shortformblog.com </shamelessselfpromotion> But in all seriousness, I find myself here a lot, along with: http://mediaite.com/ http://mediaite.com/ <-- Good, video-heavy political coverage http://reuters.com/ http://reuters.com/ <-- News is good. And as wire services go, they're the most underrated. Also a big fan of http://longform.org http://longform.org, which is ironic because of my own site's name. http://apple.copydesk.org/ http://apple.copydesk.org/ <-- Visual journalism blogger Charles Apple, who I read daily and who inspired me to do my own blog http://www.theatlanticwire.com/ http://www.theatlanticwire.com/ <-- An always-interesting aggregator of political opinion. The bloggers on The Atlantic proper, esp. Andrew Sullivan, I'm a huge fan of.

ubernostrum 16y ago

In my opinion, Metafilter is what HN wishes it could be, and is full of both more interesting content and usually better discussion.

astrofinch 16y ago

http://lesswrong.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ to improve rationality

ddoonie 16y ago

zerohedge.com ---> everything finance related

holdupadam 16y ago

http://the-diplomat.com http://the-diplomat.com | for politics in Asia. http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/ | for random goodness. http://lifehacker.com http://lifehacker.com | for me.

photon_off 16y ago

I couldn't resist a shameless plug for my search engine that I recently launched: http://www.moreofit.com http://www.moreofit.com I often find myself in need of an answer to the question: what are the most popular sites that have to do with x, y, and z? If you're looking for high quality websites about something, just type in a few keywords and have a go. Sorting by popularity (# times bookmarked on delicious) has turned out to incredibly useful, as it's highly correlated with quality. Also, I suggest that if you find any website that you like a lot you query it and see what comes up. Often times there'll be something even better... Or worse. (Did you know there are like 10 urbandictionary clones that all suck yet somehow manage to sustain themselves?) To answer your original question: wikipedia, urban dictionary, metafilter, news, pg essays, past and present Harper's indexes, tech/startup/entrepreneur blogs, TED and fora, and once inawhile popurls.

v21 16y ago

http://www.lrb.co.uk/ http://www.lrb.co.uk/ Long form essays that really aren't afraid to engage with an idea. Also, you should check out the personals section, as they are a lesson in wit. And obviously http://www.nybooks.com/ http://www.nybooks.com/ , too.

imgabe 16y ago

http://greaterdebater.com/ http://greaterdebater.com/ Disclaimer: This is my site. It's about as underground as it gets, considering only myself and a few of my friends use it. I stick things here that I find interesting, so you'll enjoy it if you have the same tastes as I do ;) Feel free to post anything you like as well, if you care to.

dirtyaura 16y ago

Edge http://edge.org/ http://edge.org/ Articles, opinion pieces and discussion about science by top scientists. Often with a philosophical twist.

rada 16y ago
One of my favorites, especially the 2007 edition where 160 leading scientists, philosophers, programmers etc. answer the question, What Are You Optimistic About And Why? http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html

mkanemoto 16y ago

GigaOM (telco), kottke (internets), kk's cool tools (DIY), arXiv (science), cluserflock (internets), Smashing Magazine (graphic design)

some1else 16y ago

Wow. Thanks for the thread. http://videolectures.net http://videolectures.net for highly academic content regarding Machine Learning, Statistics and other Computer Science subjects.

seven 16y ago

http://scienceblogs.com/ http://scienceblogs.com/