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At the risk of sounding glib, your presence on this site would seem to imply that you've not, in fact, stopped reading the news.
by joe-collins 8y ago
At the risk of sounding glib, your presence on this site would seem to imply that you've not, in fact, stopped reading the news.
- enchiridion 8y agoJust noticed your username. Are you the YouTuber?
- joe-collins 8y agoI am unaware of such a person.
- enchiridion 8y agoHe makes pretty good coding tutorials.
- bilbo0s 8y agoI was just about to make that comment. Anyone on Hacker News, has not "stopped reading the news". Maybe they stopped looking at the FOX news website? Or maybe they stopped looking at the CNN website? Or what have you. But they consume a lot of news every day. The reality is that a very large percentage of the front page of HN is political type stuff: "US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums" Or stuff intended to trigger discussions of political type stuff: "Big Tech Helps China Censor People" etc, etc etc. There is a lot of negative, outrage focused, news on HN.
- clay_the_ripper 8y agoTrue. Hacker news is the only news I read. Because it mostly filters out the stuff I don’t care about. Pretty much every “traditional news” headline basically says to me: “This horrible thing happened somewhere that has no bearing on your life!” That’s the kind of “news” I try to avoid.
- mikekchar 8y agoNot the OP and I haven't stopped reading the news entirely, but actually on HN, I do not usually read the articles (horror!). I especially don't read articles from the major news outlets. I come to HN for the comments and links to blog posts about programming. And, no, I did not read TFA ;-). I was just curious if anyone had comments on finding slower, better news.