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Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

310 points by kodeshpa 15y ago

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runjake 15y ago
TechMeme, Quora
efader 15y ago
alleyinsider.com feedly.com techmeme.com quora.com trendslate.com
IanMikutel 15y ago
Techmeme - Great for the current tech news pulse and multiple sources gives balanced coverage w/ multiple viewpoints on any news topic at the moment. Real books - a novel idea, I know.
phodo 15y ago
reddit!
- aymeric 15y ago
  What subreddits do you follow?
  - bobzimuta 15y ago
    offbeat truereddit philosophy mensrights netsec sysadmin books coding design malefashionaadvice investing outdoors campingandhiking opendirectories technology android programming woahdude coding tldr unitedkingdom freethought interiordesign earthporn webcomics
    - phodo 15y ago
      my favorite is /r/iphone
  - johnswamps 15y ago
    Here are mine (minus the silly time wasting ones): art, askscience, books, buddhism, cfb, coding (it's dead these days though), cooking, fitness, frugal, listentothis, lgbt, longtext, netsec, oney, philosophyofscience, scifi, skeptic, space, sports, starcraft, truereddit, twoxchromosomes,
  - user24 15y ago
    The best of mine: /r/machinelearning /r/javascript /r/php /r/coding /r/programming /r/askscience
- machia 15y ago
  Same here. Now a days I just go to http://www.aggreddit.com http://www.aggreddit.com for all my serious reddit needs.. programming gamedev linux asm C_Programming cpp cpudesign embedded gpgpu hpc coding python csbooks compsci
Terry_B 15y ago
So much less than I used to. I used to average something like 15000 read items a month in google reader. Now just HN and Techmeme and I try to get on with getting things done.
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chanux 15y ago
When I feel like I want to read something other than HN (which basically means I'm _looking_ for distractions) I know something is wrong with me.
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orijing 15y ago
Quora is a great website to read. I participate a lot on it too, depending on whether I have project deadlines or finals coming up. I also impulsively refresh Google News sometimes...
- kodeshpa 15y ago
  Is any specific subject you follow in Quora ?
  - orijing 15y ago
    Yup, here are my topics: http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan/topics http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan/topics There are 71 of them at the moment, and some of them are overlapping
- chmike 15y ago
  How can we get an invitation ? I can't even vote.
  - henry_flower 15y ago
    Any quora user can sent it (the invitation) to your email. If you are interested, I can do that.
    - loevborg 15y ago
      I'm interested. I already enjoy participating in stackexchange.com. Could you invite me? Sent me a message to (disposable) zqxeT9Cl5ilpoN7q@bloem.joliekemulder.nl and I'll reply with my real email address. To stay on topic, I recommend non-tech sites: Language Log, The Satorialist and London Review of Books (all easily found using Google).
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    - ccu 15y ago
rjvir 15y ago
Twitter, Quora, and Reddit.
rkalla 15y ago
Slashdot and Hacker Newwwwwever mind. Also enjoy StackExchange reading material.
bo_Olean 15y ago
Dzone
ThomPete 15y ago
Twitter
kodeshpa 15y ago
GigaOm , TechCruch for me
akkartik 15y ago
In order of priority: 1. gmail. I still have a manageable amount of email, and I enjoy my inbox. My best conversations happen on it. I leave my inbox empty every night. 2. hacker news 3. arc forum and, recently, factor archives 4. google reader. I subscribe to 150 low-volume feeds that I want to read every last thing on. They generate about 25 articles a day. 5a. I intermittently read every single comment on HN for periods of time using http://hackerstream.com http://hackerstream.com (disclosure: I built this with a friend) 5b. I intermittently scan high-volume feeds on http://readwarp.com http://readwarp.com (disclosure: my site) My reading's gotten streamlined since I separated high-volume and low-volume sources in my mind (I even wrote a rant about this epiphany: http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc). High volume sources are all in 5 above, and as new ones come up I'll build specialized tools for them.
- bvi 15y ago
  +1 for HackerStream. Looks excellent!
kodeshpa 15y ago
Anyone else is in for StackOverflow ??
bmunro 15y ago
Books
wyclif 15y ago
TechMeme, StackOverflow, Quora, and Twitter. As for "old media" online, I like The Economist, WSJ, and Financial Times.
jlangenauer 15y ago
metafilter.com
apas 15y ago
Hacker News, Techmeme, Slashdot, Twitter, Reddit/r/funny (so much fun, check it out). I tried to follow Quora but couldn't figure out the UI (I'll try again after 5/23 because I'm very pressured by school right now). I do check out GigaOM, very good content. Also Engadget sometimes and iPhoneDownloadBlog.com. I stopped reading TechCrunch & Mashable.
stevenj 15y ago
For those who are interested in business news, I just relaunched http://forlue.com http://forlue.com: HN for Business News.
latitude 15y ago
Here are few off the beaten path: http://minimalissimo.com http://minimalissimo.com http://trendir.com http://trendir.com http://archdaily.com http://archdaily.com http://typophile.com/forum http://typophile.com/forum Very inspirational, really helps with getting stuff into a shippable state :)
- rokhayakebe 15y ago
  You may like http://freshome.com http://freshome.com http://desiretoinspire.net http://desiretoinspire.net
woan 15y ago
Old media WSJ and nytimes...
yalogin 15y ago
I used to be on reddit constantly but after I found hacker news I am losing interest in reddit and now actually get work done.
temphn 15y ago
Steve Sailer: thought criminal and smartest pundit you've never heard of. http://isteve.blogspot.com http://isteve.blogspot.com La Griffe Du Lion: rarely posts but highly interesting. http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com
- guelo 15y ago
  Steve Sailer is also a white supremacist.
- tokenadult 15y ago
  Steve Sailer needs to do a lot more reading. His opinion:fact ratio is much too high. (I think his blog is actually a banned site here on HN.) Here are my reading suggestions for him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...
known 15y ago
http://www.blacklistednews.com/ http://www.blacklistednews.com/
leif 15y ago
I keep trying to get more active in math.stackexchange.
xelfer 15y ago
reddit, somethingawful
oscardelben 15y ago
Less Wrong.
joelandren 15y ago
The newspapers. All of them.
jroid 15y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/ http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/
cptnknk 15y ago
https://blog.fefe.de https://blog.fefe.de conspiracy - politics - technology (German) http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.zerohedge.com/ just stumbled over this one, not sure what to make out of it yet
- leon_ 15y ago
  yup, reading fefe too. there should be more blogs like this.
- amac 15y ago
  Zero Hedge is interesting in that it shares the philosophy of the Economist i.e anonymity. In a world now, where everyone appears to be shouting or seeking attention, it's quite refreshing. (Although both could improve the structure of their commenting)
selamattidur 15y ago
I really like the guys at Short Form Blog, who have a really great, attractive-looking approach to aggregating the day's news online. http://www.shortformblog.com http://www.shortformblog.com
- jeffgreco 15y ago
  ShortFormBlog is on my list too, along with a ton of feeds in Reader, a handful of Tumblr blogs, TechMeme, and the New York Times.
  - selamattidur 15y ago
    Glad I'm not the only one who likes it...apparently several people dislike it so much they're downvoting me. I'm not a sock-puppet, honest!
- shortformblog 15y ago
  Bummer you got downvoted seemingly arbitrarily. :( We work really hard on it. But glad you like it! Thanks for reading! - Ernie @ShortFormBlog
danieldk 15y ago
Even though I am mostly an OS X user http://lwn.net/ http://lwn.net/ provides great in-depth coverage of Linux and BSD.
sjs 15y ago
Mostly tech blogs and links I come across on twitter. I try to keep my rss subscriptions to a minimum. If I don't read 5-10 consecutive posts I ditch the feed.
aaronbrethorst 15y ago
I subscribe (i.e. physically) to The Economist and GQ. I'm subscribed to 243 feeds in Google Reader, of which maybe 50-67% are still updated. Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days. Usually I skim headlines and look for interesting things. My favorite feeds right now are my city's alt weekly newspaper's blog, my neighborhood's unofficial blog (http://capitolhillseattle.com/ http://capitolhillseattle.com/), James Altucher, Ben Horowitz, and Cliff Mass (a meteorologist at the University of Washington, and a fascinating writer). I'll skim Twitter a couple times a day when I'm waiting in line, brushing my teeth, etc. I do so more now than I used to because a website of mine gets a huge amount of traffic from tweets, and I like to stay ahead of the curve on that. I'll skim TechMeme late at night when I've exhausted everything else. I'll troll through the NYT and longform.org a couple times a week to add interesting things to Instapaper, too.
- angusgr 15y ago
  Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days Wow, I didn't know this info was available. For anyone who is wondering, it's under "Trends" in the sidebar. All Reader needs to do now is track how long users spend on each item, relative to how many words are in it.
  - simons 15y ago
    That only works with RSS feeds supplying full articles, rather than excerpts.
spaghetti 15y ago
http://www.thedailywtf.com http://www.thedailywtf.com
chmike 15y ago
http://answers.onstartups.com/ http://answers.onstartups.com/
scorpion032 15y ago
reddit.com
lucio_ribeiro 15y ago
I've got over 200 feeds in Google Reader. However I broke down in daily readings, weekly readings and monthly. Techcrunch, Mashable, Hack Forum and Delicious feeds are on daily
themullet 15y ago
not much, hardly even read hacker news any more. only daily ones: gaming forum for a game a bunch of us used to play back in the day. email too busy coding.
cloudwalking 15y ago
http://kottke.org http://kottke.org is my favorite website.
paradox95 15y ago
SAI Techmeme Quora ReadWriteWeb Inside Facebook Gmail/GoogleTV/Goolge/Google Docs blogs engadget (although rarely nowadays) Outside of tech: Yahoo News SFGate Sportsline HuffPo - occasionally
start123 15y ago
My daily read includes BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AllThingsDigital, AllFacebook, InsideFacebook, SocialTimes, Quora, Wired, GigaOm, and Mashable.
kjetil 15y ago
I recently deleted all my RSS subscriptions and went Twitter only for "feeds".
djerry 15y ago
Techcrunch and Quora
gauravgupta 15y ago
I wrote http://bit.ly/kJdNr4 http://bit.ly/kJdNr4 in 5 minutes to quickly scan the headlines from my favorite blogs and pick what to read. It's been really effective.
dpcan 15y ago
Reddit Local news website HN Email
- joshfinnie 15y ago
  > Local news website It is funny you mention that. I feel as though I have almost forgotten about my local news until recently. Now that I watch the majority of my TV through either Netflix or Hulu, I never catch the 11pm news. I don't subscribe to my local paper, and never went to their website. I find it amazing on how disconnected I was with anything happening in my current area since all I read was national news or tech websites. I recommend everyone taking a look at their local news website at least once a day to keep up with what is happening around you!
  - dpcan 15y ago
    In small areas, the local news website is much more important usually. I can't imagine much of it would apply if I lived in LA or NY,NY - that or there would just be SO MUCH to follow it wouldn't be worth the time. In my small community, the local news website applies to things happening in my back-yard sometimes.
guard-of-terra 15y ago
http://roem.ru/ http://roem.ru/ (in russian) A site with news and inside stories on Russian web businesses. It's not technical and pretty narrow, on other hand - big business owners and managers routinely write there (for example, Pavel Durov, creator of Russian social network #1, wrote a few articles).
Spyro7 15y ago
Ars Technica (surprised no one mentioned this one yet), Economist, WSJ, NYT, Phoronix, OSNews, Financial Times. I used to read books, but then college started. Now the only books I read are textbooks. A tragedy.
- frossie 15y ago
  I am amazed how many people in the field don't read Ars Technica. If there is a better source for quality tech and science news reporting, I haven't found it.
zacs 15y ago
For purely non-technical (but still very educated and inspired--it helps to be well-rounded): www.newyorker.com, www.givemesomethingtoread.com, www.longform.org, and soon www.grantland.com.
anonymoushn 15y ago
http://market-ticker.org http://market-ticker.org
Bvalmont 15y ago
Daily : Somethingawful Forum, my Tumblr feed, Newspaper on iPad. Weekly : A bunch of design feeds : Abduzeedo, Minimalmac, Bornrich, Joshspear.com, We Make Money Not Art, Changethethought, Yummy fresh grain feed! Monthly: Zen habits, Stepcase lifehack, Freelanceswitch, Lost Garden, Wired iPad app.
davidw 15y ago
The Economist in paper form, and lots of books again, thanks to my Kindle! If I had the time, I'd probably get the Financial Times.
juniortp 15y ago
http://talll.com http://talll.com
mailanay 15y ago
On the web: 1. Hacker News 2. Techcrunch 3. Documentaries on Youtube 4. Interviews of Warren Buffett Physical: 1. The Economist 2. Books by James Gleick 3. Reader's Digest
mohoyt 15y ago
New Yorker, Inc., Wired, Daring Fireball, and a whole bunch of stuff in Google Reader
jijoy 15y ago
I used to have a huge list of feeds in google reader. After start reading HN , now I don't even bother to open google reader. If the blog is good enough to read , I am sure it will come in HN in a matter of minutes. Thanks HN :)
seldo 15y ago
Tumblr has become a huge source of information for me -- I've never liked the RSS model, where the "unread" count nags at me. On tumblr I just read what's on top, and don't sweat if I miss things -- if it's big news, it'll get reblogged. On tumblr I subscribe to The Atlantic, Newsweek, the Economist and ShortFormBlog. On top of those, I have a bunch of others who provide art, photography, pictures of puppies and pretty boys. It's the perfect mix :-)
JesseAldridge 15y ago
I really like David Brooks' column: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/davidbrooks/index.html http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped... He's the pg of the political world.
keane 15y ago
Essential: http://www.24in60.com/ http://www.24in60.com/ Tech: http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://arstechnica.com/ http://arstechnica.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/ News: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.france24.com/en/ http://www.france24.com/en/ http://english.aljazeera.net/ http://english.aljazeera.net/ http://alarabonline.org/english/ http://alarabonline.org/english/ http://www.haaretz.com/news/international http://www.haaretz.com/news/international http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/ http://www.spiegel.de/international/ http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://therealnews.com/ http://therealnews.com/ http://www.globalpost.com/ http://www.globalpost.com/ Politics: http://reason.com/ http://reason.com/ http://mises.org/daily/ http://mises.org/daily/ http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/ http://www.fpif.org/ http://www.fpif.org/ http://www.newstatesman.com/ http://www.newstatesman.com/ Opinion: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/ http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog http://exiledonline.com/ http://exiledonline.com/ Periodicals: http://nplusonemag.com/ http://nplusonemag.com/ http://thoughtcatalog.com/ http://thoughtcatalog.com/ http://guernicamag.com/ http://guernicamag.com/ http://forth.ie/ http://forth.ie/ http://purple.fr/magazine/ http://purple.fr/magazine/ http://mondediplo.com/ http://mondediplo.com/ http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/ http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/ Other: http://www.quora.com/ http://www.quora.com/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ http://www.godrinktea.com/ http://www.godrinktea.com/
- arturadib 15y ago
  I've been looking for something like 24in60.com for a long time!
  - e40 15y ago
    The only disappointment there is the lack of reference links. However, it is an interesting site.
mhansen 15y ago
Not read, but I listen to NPR's Planet Money podcast
bergie 15y ago
Ars Technica, Qaiku, Twitter. Also, Google Reader: From your 385 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,616 items, clicked 39 items For non-tech news I read Skuuppi, which is a bit like HN for Finnish news: http://www.skuuppi.com/ http://www.skuuppi.com/
psybermonkey 15y ago
Perl IronMan : http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ AboutBSD : http://aboutbsd.net/ http://aboutbsd.net/
mambodog 15y ago
In addition to Ars Technica, I also read Kotaku Australia. I find Mark Serrels' contributions to the Australian edition to be some of the best material on the site. I read /r/australia as a filter for domestic news (mainly links from The Age, SMH, ABC and Crikey). I also use Stylebot to hide the comments section on every news site I read regularly, generally nothing good will come of reading them.
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gorr 15y ago
i hope HN stops posting interesting news so i could be productive with my job
lzy 15y ago
http://www.techdirt.com http://www.techdirt.com
gizzlon 15y ago
H-Online, especially the features: http://h-online.com http://h-online.com
hobbsy 15y ago
The Techmeme Leaderboard OPML list is worth popping into your Google Reader: http://www.techmeme.com/lb.opml http://www.techmeme.com/lb.opml
asymptotic 15y ago
I physically subscribe to Harper's Magazine (http://harpers.org http://harpers.org) and the New York Review of Books (http://nybooks.com http://nybooks.com). I use Google Reader, through which I have 222 subscriptions and have read 11,321 items in 30 days; I mostly skim through most summaries and articles and read maybe 1 in 20-50. I bookmark particularly interesting articles in my Delicious account and then try to re-read them within a week to see if I a) still find them interesting, and b) whether new perspectives and thoughts crop up about the themes of the article. If you're curious you can get the OPML export of my Google Reader subscriptions here: https://gist.github.com/970230 https://gist.github.com/970230 My daily reading routine is: - Guardian's international articles (guardian.co.uk/world) - International Herald Tribune (iht.com) - Techmeme (techmeme.com) - Skim the first page of HN - Skim the newest articles on Metafilter and AskMefi. - Flick through all my Google Reader items throughout the day. You don't explcitly mention this but I also voraciously read books, at a rate of about two every month. Right now I'm going through a serious counterinsurgency phase.
kristofferR 15y ago
Zite on the iPad is absolutely amazing. It's a dynamic newspaper/daily magazine with the cobtent you are intersted in. It somehow always finds the best new content relevant to me with stunning accuracy. Most of the stuff I really love in HN also appear in my Zite-magazine
dytrivedi 15y ago
Here's what I read in google reader - Coding horror http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/ Daring Fireball http://daringfireball.net/index.xml http://daringfireball.net/index.xml Derek Sivers http://sivers.org/en.atom http://sivers.org/en.atom Devour http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed DZone Refcardz http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz Geek and Poke http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/index.xml http://gizmodo.com/index.xml Hacker News Daily http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss Learn Something Everyday http://cargocollective.com/feed-rss.php?url=learnsomethingeveryday http://cargocollective.com/feed-rss.php?url=learnsomethingev... Lovely Package http://lovelypackage.com/feed/ http://lovelypackage.com/feed/ Pattern Tap http://patterntap.com/rss http://patterntap.com/rss Paul Graham http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php SVN http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals/beMH http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals/beMH Steve Yegge http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml XKCD http://xkcd.com/atom.xml http://xkcd.com/atom.xml
pclark 15y ago
Magazines: Monocle & The New Yorker News Websites: http://ft.com http://ft.com (news/finance) http://gq.com http://gq.com (fashion/lifestyle) http://businessinsider.com http://businessinsider.com (tech) http://pehub.com http://pehub.com (tech deals) Blogs: http://kotaku.com http://kotaku.com (video games) http://www.valetmag.com/ http://www.valetmag.com/ (fashion) http://hypebeast.com http://hypebeast.com (fashion) http://daringfireball.net http://daringfireball.net (opinion) When bored: reddit tumblr
officemonkey 15y ago
Right now I'm reading "Game of Thrones" on my kindle. Before that I was on a Jules Verne kick: "Around the World in 80 Days", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" are all great fun. Sometimes I even read something work-related: "Bureaucracy" by James Wilson and "Managing the Unexpected" by Weick and Sutcliffe.
hobolobo 15y ago
Robert Fisk at the Independent writes brilliantly on the Middle East. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/ http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/
keyle 15y ago
http://supapaper.com/ http://supapaper.com/
- sktrdie 15y ago
  Do the colors provide any meaning? Like maybe red is 'hotter news' or something?
  - keyle 15y ago
    No it's purely for skimming through and making the difference between the articles title. As a separator if you like.
rms 15y ago
http://www.lesswrong.com http://www.lesswrong.com http://www.kottke.org http://www.kottke.org http://www.boingboing.net http://www.boingboing.net http://www.longform.org http://www.longform.org http://www.reddit.com http://www.reddit.com
scrabbles 15y ago
I look forward to seeing updates to these feeds, though they aren't always daily. PeteSearch: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/ http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/ SimoleonSense: http://www.simoleonsense.com/ http://www.simoleonsense.com/ O'Reilly Radar: http://radar.oreilly.com/ http://radar.oreilly.com/ The various "planet" feeds (planet lisp, haskell) and "r bloggers" are always great sources of news too.
djm 15y ago
Every few days or so I have a look through the new submissions to http://longreads.com http://longreads.com. It lists longer articles from other places on the web and is a welcome change to the short contentless articles I come accross everywhere else.
delinka 15y ago
"...what else do you read?" I sincerely apologize for giving in to my Grammar Nazi impulse. Please understand that although it is not an excuse, reading the "Logical Punctuation" article has made me ... temporarily insane. Thank you.
tobylane 15y ago
Metafilter, Lifehacker and bits of most of that network, Onethingwell, Marco.org, DaringFireball, BBC news, Arstechnica, Superuser, GiveMeSomethingToRead. I've bookmarked about 100 blogs to read later, so I ignore new posts from these sources to those blogs. I'd say Metafilter is my main and highest quality source. In real life all I read is http://www.theweek.co.uk/ http://www.theweek.co.uk/ and Instapaper with the odd tech or music magazine.
gbog 15y ago
Since my wife offered me a Kindle, I happen to read interesting classics found on http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org: Les Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand De la démocratie en Amérique, Alexis de Tocqueville À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust
paganel 15y ago
Lew Rockwell's blog : http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/ http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/ Economist.com blogs, especially the Johnson blog (http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson) and the "Free exchange" blog (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange) Planet Python : http://planet.python.org/ http://planet.python.org/ The Erlang sub-reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/erlang http://www.reddit.com/r/erlang
MrJagil 15y ago
HN, macrumors etc. but of the more interesting sort: http://www.loper-os.org/ http://www.loper-os.org/ http://fangsandarrows.com/ http://fangsandarrows.com/ http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/ http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/ http://jadering.blogspot.com/ http://jadering.blogspot.com/ http://www.quietearth.us/ http://www.quietearth.us/ http://www.pulpmovies.com/ http://www.pulpmovies.com/ http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/ http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/ and backbrain http://lighthouseinteger.blogspot.com/ http://lighthouseinteger.blogspot.com/
keke_ta 15y ago
Penn Olson(http://www.penn-olson.com/ http://www.penn-olson.com/) Marketgeek(http://marketgeek.net/net/ http://marketgeek.net/net/) Quora(http://www.quora.com/ http://www.quora.com/) Techmeme(http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/)
cschmidt 15y ago
The Economist is great, although I mostly "read" the audio edition in my car on my horrible commute.
- uriel 15y ago
  The audio edition of The Economist is absolutely fantastic, as well read as it is well written, a pleasure to listen to.
tammer 15y ago
http://www.harpers.org http://www.harpers.org get yourself a subscription. today.
andrewl 15y ago
Arts & Letters Daily: http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/ Cool Tools: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ Philip Greenspun's blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/
DanielStraight 15y ago
Trying to pick things not yet mentioned. Cooking blogs (I read a bunch more, but these are the best): http://thestonesoup.com/blog/ http://thestonesoup.com/blog/ http://smittenkitchen.com/ http://smittenkitchen.com/ http://globaltableadventure.com/ http://globaltableadventure.com/ A blog ostensibly about learning Japanese but really about learning anything: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ Humor: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php http://www.qwantz.com/index.php http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ Programming: http://prog21.dadgum.com/ http://prog21.dadgum.com/ Inspiration / business: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ http://unicornfree.com/ http://unicornfree.com/ A little of everything: http://jsomers.net/blog/ http://jsomers.net/blog/
- mythobit 15y ago
  I've got to +1 Hyperbole and a Half, very funny.
- sayemm 15y ago
  +1 for James Altucher's blog, no one writes about business war stories like he does. He lays it out straight for you.
jkaljundi 15y ago
http://utopic.me/ http://utopic.me/ to provide personal automated reading suggestions.
blumentopf 15y ago
German suggestions: Tech: http://heise.de/newsticker/ http://heise.de/newsticker/ http://blog.fefe.de/ http://blog.fefe.de/ (security & conspiracies) http://blog.koehntopp.de/ http://blog.koehntopp.de/ (database stuff) Design: http://designtagebuch.de/ http://designtagebuch.de/ http://ulani.de/ http://ulani.de/ Media: http://bildblog.de/ http://bildblog.de/ Economics: http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/ http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/ http://weissgarnix.de/ http://weissgarnix.de/ http://verlorenegeneration.de/ http://verlorenegeneration.de/ Politics: http://blog.till-westermayer.de/ http://blog.till-westermayer.de/
tonycore 15y ago
http://www.Newz.io http://www.Newz.io - Searchable magazine organized by topic that pulls from thousands of top publishers. For instance if I wanted to see all the bin laden news i go to http://www.newz.io/bin-laden http://www.newz.io/bin-laden and it'll create a magazine on those keywords
rvijapurapu 15y ago
My day starts with http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org Then HN, then general news. I guess I'm a sucker for Technology news.
BasilAwad 15y ago
Can someone play with the data and report where the HN links are coming from?
nollidge 15y ago
Excellent science blogs: Bad Astronomy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy Frontal Cortex (neuropsych type stuff): http://www.wired.com/wiredscience http://www.wired.com/wiredscience Not Exactly Rocket Science (general science, mostly biology): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience
sayemm 15y ago
tech news: http://sayem.me http://sayem.me http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://finance.yahoo.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/ Twitter, Reddit, StackOverflow, High Scalability
pacohn 15y ago
http://hubski.com http://hubski.com Like HN meets twitter.
- dagski 15y ago
  second. hubski is my daily stop for interesting reads.
bluegene 15y ago
TechNews: Techmeme, Techcrunch, Daring fireball, Oreilly News, Official Google Blog Hardware: AnandTech, RealWorld Technologies, StorageMojo, ServerFault Blog, Gustavo Duarte, Security: A Day in the Life of IS investigator, Microsoft Security Research Center, Layer 8, Fun: Reddit, Boston Globe's Big Picture, Atlantic's In Focus, Others: Lifehacker, The Art of Manliness, Windows PowerShell blog, Paul Graham Essays, Anil Dash, Catonmat, Joel Spolsky, MintLife, High Scalability, The old new Thing
migrantgeek 15y ago
I limit my subs to mostly tech and feeds that post infrequently but well. I go back and forth between enabling Hacker News and disabling it. It's too busy and distracting sometimes when I need to get things done and I don't want to get lost it some lengthy article somewhere. Here are my current feeds sans HN http://abstrusegoose.com http://abstrusegoose.com http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ http://cmurphycode.posterous.com http://cmurphycode.posterous.com http://acmel.wordpress.com http://acmel.wordpress.com http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/ http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/ http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/ http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/ http://www.cpeterson.org http://www.cpeterson.org http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ http://blogs.iss.net http://blogs.iss.net http://ignorethecode.net http://ignorethecode.net http://blog.lastinfirstout.net/ http://blog.lastinfirstout.net/ http://linuxsysadminblog.com http://linuxsysadminblog.com http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com http://planetsysadmin.com/ http://planetsysadmin.com/ http://teddziuba.com/ http://teddziuba.com/ http://toroid.org/ams/etc http://toroid.org/ams/etc
pragmatic 15y ago
Books. Books have a relevance that's hard to match with blog posts, newspapers and magazines. Books from 200 to 2000 years ago still have a lot of relevance. (Human nature hasn't changed much). So instead of reading about the latest privacy invasion from Facebook or the latest startup that no one will know about in 2 years, try a book. I'm trying this myself. Spending less time on hacker news, and more time with good books. So far, much more satisfying. You feel like you accomplished something after finishing a good book. Versus feeling like you wasted a morning/night reading through "timely news".
- tttp 15y ago
  And go for the ones with real pages on real paper. The ones you can lend to your friends after having read them. The ones that your parents have read, kept and that you took in their bookshelf when you were a kid. The ones that your friends gave back to you and that will wait in your bookshelf for your children to take and read. The ones their friends will borrow and that will probably giggle a bit, because they will have difficulties deciphering the notes your father wrote on a margin. Because if content has a price, knowledge ought to be free.
  - kristofferR 15y ago
    To be frank - your comment is just an appeal to nostalgia, not practicality. It comes off in the same way as when some people try to tell you that buying MP3s on the net is wrong and that buying physical CDs are the only right way to do it. Ebooks have huge advantages compared to physical books. They're availble everywhere (no need for long errands/waiting just to find the book you seek), much cheaper, searchable and don't take up space in your home. They're not lendable (yet), but that's the only issue with them. I'm not saying that ebooks are "the correct choice". A lot of people still love the feeling of physical books, perhaps rightly so. But please don't tell me that buying ebooks are somehow wrong or any lesser than buying physical books.
    - mattholling 15y ago
      Don't forget about the lack of a secondhand market for ebooks. That's a big disadvantage.
iSimone 15y ago
I have two things going every morning: 1) I flip through my Reeder app on the iPad which has a mix of blogs in there that either publish far too ofter (like techcrunch) or far too seldom (like avc.com; ok that one's in between). I however try to have a great selection of various topics in there from architecture, design (like swiss-miss.com) to the tech kind-of news. 2) Then I have a selection of apps or Safari bookmarks sitting on my first iPad page that I go through in a bit more detailed fashion. I'm listing them below: - dribbble.com (dribbblr app) - quora.com - forrst.com - macrumors.com - thenextweb.com - flipboard app - twitter app Then I'm ready to start the day and go on with it. Not included are philosophical books I try to read, but I don't read nearly as much as I should.
Symmetry 15y ago
The Economist (dead tree edition) http://lesswrong.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ Thinking about thinking http://www.realworldtech.com/ http://www.realworldtech.com/ For really in depth articles on computer topics, and the forums http://www.anandtech.com/ http://www.anandtech.com/ for hardware benchmarks and reviews http://blog.regehr.org/ http://blog.regehr.org/ a blog about C compilers and hiking http://marginalrevolution.com/ http://marginalrevolution.com/ Economics progressor joint blog http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/ http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/ Intelligent and sane liberal blogger http://www.theatlantic.com/megan-mcardle/ http://www.theatlantic.com/megan-mcardle/ Intelligent and sane conservative blogger. "Conservative" might actually be a bit of a stretch there... http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/ http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/ About space travel/combat - its almost a guilty pleasure. Also the blogs of a few authors and friends.
- justinhj 15y ago
  http://moreintelligentlife.com/ http://moreintelligentlife.com/ this is a good read I found on a trip to the UK, a quarterly from the Economist. Long interesting articles
Sukotto 15y ago
Currently reading: Much Fall of Blood: Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint Recently read: Wise Man's Fear: Patrick Rothfuss Cryoburn: Lois McMaster Bujold Miles in Love: Lois McMaster Bujold RSS, highlights Comics A Softer World | http://www.rsspect.com/rss/asw.xml | http://www.asofterworld.com Chart Porn | http://chartporn.org/feed/ | http://chartporn.org Dr. McNinja | http://www.rauros.net/drmcnrss2.php | http://drmcninja.com Dresden Codak | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/rsspect/fJur | http://dresdencodak.com ErfWorld | http://www.erfworld.com/feed/ | http://www.erfworld.com Errant Story | http://www.errantstory.com/feed | http://www.errantstory.com FoxTrot | http://feeds.feedburner.com/Foxtrotcom | http://www.foxtrot.com Girl Genius | http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain.rss | http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ Goats | http://goats.com/index.xml | http://www.goats.com/ Gunnerkrigg Court | http://feed43.com/4503041127548424.xml | http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php Indexed | http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default | http://thisisindexed.com Order of the Stick | http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.rss | http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html Penny Arcade | http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/pa-mainsite | http://www.penny-arcade.com/ PS238 | http://feed43.com/ps238-link-only.xml | http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php PvPonline | http://www.pvponline.com/rss/?section=article | http://www.pvponline.com Ratfist | http://ratfist.com/feed/ | http://ratfist.com Sluggy Freelance | http://feeds.feedburner.com/sluggy_freelance | http://www.sluggy.com Wapsi Square | http://wapsisquare.com/feed/ | http://wapsisquare.com xkcd | http://xkcd.com/rss.xml | http://xkcd.com/ Development Paul Graham essays | http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss | http://www.paulgraham.com/ Woodgears.ca | http://woodgears.ca/rss.xml | http://woodgears.ca/ Misc Ask Metafilter, Recent best answers | http://feed43.com/2602451534003772.xml | http://ask.metafilter.com/bestanswers.cfm Last Psychiatrist | http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/index.xml | http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ lesswrong | http://lesswrong.com/.rss | http://lesswrong.com/ Lifehacker: Top | http://lifehacker.com/tag/top/index.xml | http://lifehacker.com/tag/top Mostly Maths | http://www.mostlymaths.net/feeds/posts/default | http://www.mostlymaths.net/ OkTrends | http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/feed/ | http://blog.okcupid.com Poetic Home | http://feeds.feedburner.com/PoeticHomephLivingInVintagePoetry | http://www.poetichome.com Steampunk Home | http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSteampunkHome | http://thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com/ Steampunk Workshop | http://steampunkworkshop.com/steam.xml | http://steampunkworkshop.com Money + Business A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blogspot/smartbear | http://blog.asmartbear.com I Will Teach You To Be Rich | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/IWillTeachYouToBeRich | http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com Len Penzo dot Com | http://feeds.feedburner.com/LenPenzo | http://lenpenzo.com/blog MicroISV on a Shoestring | http://www.kalzumeus.com/feed/ | http://www.kalzumeus.com Millionaire Mommy Next Door | http://feeds.feedburner.com/MillionaireMommyNextDoor | http://millionairemommynextdoor.com Simple Dollar | http://feeds.feedburner.com/thesimpledollar | http://www.thesimpledollar.com Steve Blank | http://steveblank.com/feed/ | http://steveblank.com Unicornfree | http://feeds.feedburner.com/unicornfree | http://unicornfree.com Opinion Cool Tools | http://www.kk.org/cooltools/index.xml | http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ Joel on Software | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml | http://www.joelonsoftware.com PawPrint.net | http://www.pawprint.net/news/rss/news.xml | http://www.pawprint.net Schneier on Security | http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml | http://www.schneier.com/blog/ Slight Paranoia (Chris Soghoian) | http://paranoia.dubfire.net/rss.xml | http://paranoia.dubfire.net/ Parenting: Game Theorist | http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default | http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/ Parent Hacks | http://feeds.feedburner.com/parenthacks | http://www.parenthacks.com/ Thingamababy | http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/atom.xml | http://www.thingamababy.com People AnnaTheRed's Bento Factory | http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnnaTheRedsBentoFactory | http://www.annathered.com Derek Sivers | http://sivers.org/en.atom | http://sivers.org/ dive into mark | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/diveintomark/all | http://diveintomark.org/ Jonathan Coulton | http://feeds.feedburner.com/jonathancoulton | http://www.jonathancoulton.com Patrick Rothfuss - 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kongqiu 15y ago
Books: The Bible, Kundera, Bolano, Borges, Sebald, Robert Caro, Naipaul, Milosz, Blake Web: Exiledonline, Matt Taibbi, Borderland Beat, NYRB
iamchmod 15y ago
Anything Neal Asher writes "Gridlinked", "The Skinner", "Line War"
rplacd 15y ago
Everyone's already mentioned plenty of sites on the net, so I'll just list my quad-fecta of magazines/periodicals - Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, NYRB.
ignifero 15y ago
Apart from HN (i have them all in my bookmarks toolbar): http://twitter.com http://twitter.com http://arstechnica.com http://arstechnica.com http://news.bbc.co.uk http://news.bbc.co.uk http://www.boingboing.net http://www.boingboing.net http://spiegel.de/international/ http://spiegel.de/international/ http://www.technologyreview.com/ http://www.technologyreview.com/ http://www.engadget.com/ http://www.engadget.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ (yes , i am that guy) http://europe.wsj.com/home-page http://europe.wsj.com/home-page every wednesday: http://theoatmeal.com/ http://theoatmeal.com/ http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ shameless plug: http://textchannels.com/ http://textchannels.com/
alphaBetaGamma 15y ago
Many things that have already been mentioned, plus the free newsletter from STRATFOR. I'm thinking of subscribing. It offers a very cynical view of geopolitics, quite different of what you see in the mainstream media. I find it thought provoking. For example, their analysis of the Syrian crisis: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110504-making-sense-syrian-crisis http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110504-making-sense-syrian-...
pamelafox 15y ago
I'm currently reading a set of 10 blogs that revolve around design/branding/user experience, as I want to improve my skills there. I wrote up a post with links to them here: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/05/reading-my-way-to-better-design.html http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/05/reading-my-way-to-better-d... (And to be meta about it, I based that list of blogs on a previous hackernews thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103578 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103578)
karlzt 15y ago
gmail, physics books.
rivalis 15y ago
Random stuff. Really high-entropy, high-novelty stuff, as different from research papers and math/cs textbooks as I can manage (these make up the bulk of my reading material). Currently: - Portrait of a Lady - The Illiad - A collection of Walter Benjamin's very early work - The Braddock Essays (a collection of award-winning essays about teaching composition to college students)

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runjake 15y ago

TechMeme, Quora

efader 15y ago

alleyinsider.com feedly.com techmeme.com quora.com trendslate.com

IanMikutel 15y ago

Techmeme - Great for the current tech news pulse and multiple sources gives balanced coverage w/ multiple viewpoints on any news topic at the moment. Real books - a novel idea, I know.

phodo 15y ago

reddit!

aymeric 15y ago
What subreddits do you follow?
- bobzimuta 15y ago
  offbeat truereddit philosophy mensrights netsec sysadmin books coding design malefashionaadvice investing outdoors campingandhiking opendirectories technology android programming woahdude coding tldr unitedkingdom freethought interiordesign earthporn webcomics
  - phodo 15y ago
    my favorite is /r/iphone
- johnswamps 15y ago
  Here are mine (minus the silly time wasting ones): art, askscience, books, buddhism, cfb, coding (it's dead these days though), cooking, fitness, frugal, listentothis, lgbt, longtext, netsec, oney, philosophyofscience, scifi, skeptic, space, sports, starcraft, truereddit, twoxchromosomes,
- user24 15y ago
  The best of mine: /r/machinelearning /r/javascript /r/php /r/coding /r/programming /r/askscience
machia 15y ago
Same here. Now a days I just go to http://www.aggreddit.com http://www.aggreddit.com for all my serious reddit needs.. programming gamedev linux asm C_Programming cpp cpudesign embedded gpgpu hpc coding python csbooks compsci

Terry_B 15y ago

So much less than I used to. I used to average something like 15000 read items a month in google reader. Now just HN and Techmeme and I try to get on with getting things done.

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chanux 15y ago

When I feel like I want to read something other than HN (which basically means I'm _looking_ for distractions) I know something is wrong with me.

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orijing 15y ago

Quora is a great website to read. I participate a lot on it too, depending on whether I have project deadlines or finals coming up. I also impulsively refresh Google News sometimes...

kodeshpa 15y ago
Is any specific subject you follow in Quora ?
- orijing 15y ago
  Yup, here are my topics: http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan/topics http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan/topics There are 71 of them at the moment, and some of them are overlapping
chmike 15y ago
How can we get an invitation ? I can't even vote.
- henry_flower 15y ago
  Any quora user can sent it (the invitation) to your email. If you are interested, I can do that.
  - loevborg 15y ago
    I'm interested. I already enjoy participating in stackexchange.com. Could you invite me? Sent me a message to (disposable) zqxeT9Cl5ilpoN7q@bloem.joliekemulder.nl and I'll reply with my real email address. To stay on topic, I recommend non-tech sites: Language Log, The Satorialist and London Review of Books (all easily found using Google).
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rjvir 15y ago

Twitter, Quora, and Reddit.

rkalla 15y ago

Slashdot and Hacker Newwwwwever mind. Also enjoy StackExchange reading material.

bo_Olean 15y ago

Dzone

ThomPete 15y ago

Twitter

kodeshpa 15y ago

GigaOm , TechCruch for me

akkartik 15y ago

In order of priority: 1. gmail. I still have a manageable amount of email, and I enjoy my inbox. My best conversations happen on it. I leave my inbox empty every night. 2. hacker news 3. arc forum and, recently, factor archives 4. google reader. I subscribe to 150 low-volume feeds that I want to read every last thing on. They generate about 25 articles a day. 5a. I intermittently read every single comment on HN for periods of time using http://hackerstream.com http://hackerstream.com (disclosure: I built this with a friend) 5b. I intermittently scan high-volume feeds on http://readwarp.com http://readwarp.com (disclosure: my site) My reading's gotten streamlined since I separated high-volume and low-volume sources in my mind (I even wrote a rant about this epiphany: http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc). High volume sources are all in 5 above, and as new ones come up I'll build specialized tools for them.

bvi 15y ago
+1 for HackerStream. Looks excellent!

kodeshpa 15y ago

Anyone else is in for StackOverflow ??

bmunro 15y ago

Books

wyclif 15y ago

TechMeme, StackOverflow, Quora, and Twitter. As for "old media" online, I like The Economist, WSJ, and Financial Times.

jlangenauer 15y ago

metafilter.com

apas 15y ago

Hacker News, Techmeme, Slashdot, Twitter, Reddit/r/funny (so much fun, check it out). I tried to follow Quora but couldn't figure out the UI (I'll try again after 5/23 because I'm very pressured by school right now). I do check out GigaOM, very good content. Also Engadget sometimes and iPhoneDownloadBlog.com. I stopped reading TechCrunch & Mashable.

stevenj 15y ago

For those who are interested in business news, I just relaunched http://forlue.com http://forlue.com: HN for Business News.

latitude 15y ago

Here are few off the beaten path: http://minimalissimo.com http://minimalissimo.com http://trendir.com http://trendir.com http://archdaily.com http://archdaily.com http://typophile.com/forum http://typophile.com/forum Very inspirational, really helps with getting stuff into a shippable state :)

rokhayakebe 15y ago
You may like http://freshome.com http://freshome.com http://desiretoinspire.net http://desiretoinspire.net

woan 15y ago

Old media WSJ and nytimes...

yalogin 15y ago

I used to be on reddit constantly but after I found hacker news I am losing interest in reddit and now actually get work done.

temphn 15y ago

Steve Sailer: thought criminal and smartest pundit you've never heard of. http://isteve.blogspot.com http://isteve.blogspot.com La Griffe Du Lion: rarely posts but highly interesting. http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com

guelo 15y ago
Steve Sailer is also a white supremacist.
tokenadult 15y ago
Steve Sailer needs to do a lot more reading. His opinion:fact ratio is much too high. (I think his blog is actually a banned site here on HN.) Here are my reading suggestions for him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/AnthropologyHumanBiologyRaceCitations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...

known 15y ago

http://www.blacklistednews.com/ http://www.blacklistednews.com/

leif 15y ago

I keep trying to get more active in math.stackexchange.

xelfer 15y ago

reddit, somethingawful

oscardelben 15y ago

Less Wrong.

joelandren 15y ago

The newspapers. All of them.

jroid 15y ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/ http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/

cptnknk 15y ago

https://blog.fefe.de https://blog.fefe.de conspiracy - politics - technology (German) http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.zerohedge.com/ just stumbled over this one, not sure what to make out of it yet

leon_ 15y ago
yup, reading fefe too. there should be more blogs like this.
amac 15y ago
Zero Hedge is interesting in that it shares the philosophy of the Economist i.e anonymity. In a world now, where everyone appears to be shouting or seeking attention, it's quite refreshing. (Although both could improve the structure of their commenting)

selamattidur 15y ago

I really like the guys at Short Form Blog, who have a really great, attractive-looking approach to aggregating the day's news online. http://www.shortformblog.com http://www.shortformblog.com

jeffgreco 15y ago
ShortFormBlog is on my list too, along with a ton of feeds in Reader, a handful of Tumblr blogs, TechMeme, and the New York Times.
- selamattidur 15y ago
  Glad I'm not the only one who likes it...apparently several people dislike it so much they're downvoting me. I'm not a sock-puppet, honest!
shortformblog 15y ago
Bummer you got downvoted seemingly arbitrarily. :( We work really hard on it. But glad you like it! Thanks for reading! - Ernie @ShortFormBlog

danieldk 15y ago

Even though I am mostly an OS X user http://lwn.net/ http://lwn.net/ provides great in-depth coverage of Linux and BSD.

sjs 15y ago

Mostly tech blogs and links I come across on twitter. I try to keep my rss subscriptions to a minimum. If I don't read 5-10 consecutive posts I ditch the feed.

aaronbrethorst 15y ago

I subscribe (i.e. physically) to The Economist and GQ. I'm subscribed to 243 feeds in Google Reader, of which maybe 50-67% are still updated. Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days. Usually I skim headlines and look for interesting things. My favorite feeds right now are my city's alt weekly newspaper's blog, my neighborhood's unofficial blog (http://capitolhillseattle.com/ http://capitolhillseattle.com/), James Altucher, Ben Horowitz, and Cliff Mass (a meteorologist at the University of Washington, and a fascinating writer). I'll skim Twitter a couple times a day when I'm waiting in line, brushing my teeth, etc. I do so more now than I used to because a website of mine gets a huge amount of traffic from tweets, and I like to stay ahead of the curve on that. I'll skim TechMeme late at night when I've exhausted everything else. I'll troll through the NYT and longform.org a couple times a week to add interesting things to Instapaper, too.

angusgr 15y ago
Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days Wow, I didn't know this info was available. For anyone who is wondering, it's under "Trends" in the sidebar. All Reader needs to do now is track how long users spend on each item, relative to how many words are in it.
- simons 15y ago
  That only works with RSS feeds supplying full articles, rather than excerpts.

spaghetti 15y ago

http://www.thedailywtf.com http://www.thedailywtf.com

chmike 15y ago

http://answers.onstartups.com/ http://answers.onstartups.com/

scorpion032 15y ago

reddit.com

lucio_ribeiro 15y ago

I've got over 200 feeds in Google Reader. However I broke down in daily readings, weekly readings and monthly. Techcrunch, Mashable, Hack Forum and Delicious feeds are on daily

themullet 15y ago

not much, hardly even read hacker news any more. only daily ones: gaming forum for a game a bunch of us used to play back in the day. email too busy coding.

cloudwalking 15y ago

http://kottke.org http://kottke.org is my favorite website.

paradox95 15y ago

SAI Techmeme Quora ReadWriteWeb Inside Facebook Gmail/GoogleTV/Goolge/Google Docs blogs engadget (although rarely nowadays) Outside of tech: Yahoo News SFGate Sportsline HuffPo - occasionally

start123 15y ago

My daily read includes BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AllThingsDigital, AllFacebook, InsideFacebook, SocialTimes, Quora, Wired, GigaOm, and Mashable.

kjetil 15y ago

I recently deleted all my RSS subscriptions and went Twitter only for "feeds".

djerry 15y ago

Techcrunch and Quora

gauravgupta 15y ago

I wrote http://bit.ly/kJdNr4 http://bit.ly/kJdNr4 in 5 minutes to quickly scan the headlines from my favorite blogs and pick what to read. It's been really effective.

dpcan 15y ago

Reddit Local news website HN Email

joshfinnie 15y ago
> Local news website It is funny you mention that. I feel as though I have almost forgotten about my local news until recently. Now that I watch the majority of my TV through either Netflix or Hulu, I never catch the 11pm news. I don't subscribe to my local paper, and never went to their website. I find it amazing on how disconnected I was with anything happening in my current area since all I read was national news or tech websites. I recommend everyone taking a look at their local news website at least once a day to keep up with what is happening around you!
- dpcan 15y ago
  In small areas, the local news website is much more important usually. I can't imagine much of it would apply if I lived in LA or NY,NY - that or there would just be SO MUCH to follow it wouldn't be worth the time. In my small community, the local news website applies to things happening in my back-yard sometimes.

guard-of-terra 15y ago

http://roem.ru/ http://roem.ru/ (in russian) A site with news and inside stories on Russian web businesses. It's not technical and pretty narrow, on other hand - big business owners and managers routinely write there (for example, Pavel Durov, creator of Russian social network #1, wrote a few articles).

Spyro7 15y ago

Ars Technica (surprised no one mentioned this one yet), Economist, WSJ, NYT, Phoronix, OSNews, Financial Times. I used to read books, but then college started. Now the only books I read are textbooks. A tragedy.

frossie 15y ago
I am amazed how many people in the field don't read Ars Technica. If there is a better source for quality tech and science news reporting, I haven't found it.

zacs 15y ago

For purely non-technical (but still very educated and inspired--it helps to be well-rounded): www.newyorker.com, www.givemesomethingtoread.com, www.longform.org, and soon www.grantland.com.

anonymoushn 15y ago

http://market-ticker.org http://market-ticker.org

Bvalmont 15y ago

Daily : Somethingawful Forum, my Tumblr feed, Newspaper on iPad. Weekly : A bunch of design feeds : Abduzeedo, Minimalmac, Bornrich, Joshspear.com, We Make Money Not Art, Changethethought, Yummy fresh grain feed! Monthly: Zen habits, Stepcase lifehack, Freelanceswitch, Lost Garden, Wired iPad app.

davidw 15y ago

The Economist in paper form, and lots of books again, thanks to my Kindle! If I had the time, I'd probably get the Financial Times.

juniortp 15y ago

http://talll.com http://talll.com

mailanay 15y ago

On the web: 1. Hacker News 2. Techcrunch 3. Documentaries on Youtube 4. Interviews of Warren Buffett Physical: 1. The Economist 2. Books by James Gleick 3. Reader's Digest

mohoyt 15y ago

New Yorker, Inc., Wired, Daring Fireball, and a whole bunch of stuff in Google Reader

jijoy 15y ago

I used to have a huge list of feeds in google reader. After start reading HN , now I don't even bother to open google reader. If the blog is good enough to read , I am sure it will come in HN in a matter of minutes. Thanks HN :)

seldo 15y ago

Tumblr has become a huge source of information for me -- I've never liked the RSS model, where the "unread" count nags at me. On tumblr I just read what's on top, and don't sweat if I miss things -- if it's big news, it'll get reblogged. On tumblr I subscribe to The Atlantic, Newsweek, the Economist and ShortFormBlog. On top of those, I have a bunch of others who provide art, photography, pictures of puppies and pretty boys. It's the perfect mix :-)

JesseAldridge 15y ago

I really like David Brooks' column: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/davidbrooks/index.html http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped... He's the pg of the political world.

keane 15y ago

Essential: http://www.24in60.com/ http://www.24in60.com/ Tech: http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://arstechnica.com/ http://arstechnica.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/ News: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.france24.com/en/ http://www.france24.com/en/ http://english.aljazeera.net/ http://english.aljazeera.net/ http://alarabonline.org/english/ http://alarabonline.org/english/ http://www.haaretz.com/news/international http://www.haaretz.com/news/international http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/ http://www.spiegel.de/international/ http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://therealnews.com/ http://therealnews.com/ http://www.globalpost.com/ http://www.globalpost.com/ Politics: http://reason.com/ http://reason.com/ http://mises.org/daily/ http://mises.org/daily/ http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.zerohedge.com/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/ http://www.fpif.org/ http://www.fpif.org/ http://www.newstatesman.com/ http://www.newstatesman.com/ Opinion: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/ http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog http://exiledonline.com/ http://exiledonline.com/ Periodicals: http://nplusonemag.com/ http://nplusonemag.com/ http://thoughtcatalog.com/ http://thoughtcatalog.com/ http://guernicamag.com/ http://guernicamag.com/ http://forth.ie/ http://forth.ie/ http://purple.fr/magazine/ http://purple.fr/magazine/ http://mondediplo.com/ http://mondediplo.com/ http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/ http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/ Other: http://www.quora.com/ http://www.quora.com/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ http://www.godrinktea.com/ http://www.godrinktea.com/

arturadib 15y ago
I've been looking for something like 24in60.com for a long time!
- e40 15y ago
  The only disappointment there is the lack of reference links. However, it is an interesting site.

mhansen 15y ago

Not read, but I listen to NPR's Planet Money podcast

bergie 15y ago

Ars Technica, Qaiku, Twitter. Also, Google Reader: From your 385 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,616 items, clicked 39 items For non-tech news I read Skuuppi, which is a bit like HN for Finnish news: http://www.skuuppi.com/ http://www.skuuppi.com/

psybermonkey 15y ago

Perl IronMan : http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ AboutBSD : http://aboutbsd.net/ http://aboutbsd.net/

mambodog 15y ago

In addition to Ars Technica, I also read Kotaku Australia. I find Mark Serrels' contributions to the Australian edition to be some of the best material on the site. I read /r/australia as a filter for domestic news (mainly links from The Age, SMH, ABC and Crikey). I also use Stylebot to hide the comments section on every news site I read regularly, generally nothing good will come of reading them.

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gorr 15y ago

i hope HN stops posting interesting news so i could be productive with my job

lzy 15y ago

http://www.techdirt.com http://www.techdirt.com

gizzlon 15y ago

H-Online, especially the features: http://h-online.com http://h-online.com

hobbsy 15y ago

The Techmeme Leaderboard OPML list is worth popping into your Google Reader: http://www.techmeme.com/lb.opml http://www.techmeme.com/lb.opml

asymptotic 15y ago

I physically subscribe to Harper's Magazine (http://harpers.org http://harpers.org) and the New York Review of Books (http://nybooks.com http://nybooks.com). I use Google Reader, through which I have 222 subscriptions and have read 11,321 items in 30 days; I mostly skim through most summaries and articles and read maybe 1 in 20-50. I bookmark particularly interesting articles in my Delicious account and then try to re-read them within a week to see if I a) still find them interesting, and b) whether new perspectives and thoughts crop up about the themes of the article. If you're curious you can get the OPML export of my Google Reader subscriptions here: https://gist.github.com/970230 https://gist.github.com/970230 My daily reading routine is: - Guardian's international articles (guardian.co.uk/world) - International Herald Tribune (iht.com) - Techmeme (techmeme.com) - Skim the first page of HN - Skim the newest articles on Metafilter and AskMefi. - Flick through all my Google Reader items throughout the day. You don't explcitly mention this but I also voraciously read books, at a rate of about two every month. Right now I'm going through a serious counterinsurgency phase.

kristofferR 15y ago

Zite on the iPad is absolutely amazing. It's a dynamic newspaper/daily magazine with the cobtent you are intersted in. It somehow always finds the best new content relevant to me with stunning accuracy. Most of the stuff I really love in HN also appear in my Zite-magazine

dytrivedi 15y ago

Here's what I read in google reader - Coding horror http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/ Daring Fireball http://daringfireball.net/index.xml http://daringfireball.net/index.xml Derek Sivers http://sivers.org/en.atom http://sivers.org/en.atom Devour http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed DZone Refcardz http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz Geek and Poke http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/index.xml http://gizmodo.com/index.xml Hacker News Daily http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss Learn Something Everyday http://cargocollective.com/feed-rss.php?url=learnsomethingeveryday http://cargocollective.com/feed-rss.php?url=learnsomethingev... Lovely Package http://lovelypackage.com/feed/ http://lovelypackage.com/feed/ Pattern Tap http://patterntap.com/rss http://patterntap.com/rss Paul Graham http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php SVN http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals/beMH http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals/beMH Steve Yegge http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml XKCD http://xkcd.com/atom.xml http://xkcd.com/atom.xml

pclark 15y ago

Magazines: Monocle & The New Yorker News Websites: http://ft.com http://ft.com (news/finance) http://gq.com http://gq.com (fashion/lifestyle) http://businessinsider.com http://businessinsider.com (tech) http://pehub.com http://pehub.com (tech deals) Blogs: http://kotaku.com http://kotaku.com (video games) http://www.valetmag.com/ http://www.valetmag.com/ (fashion) http://hypebeast.com http://hypebeast.com (fashion) http://daringfireball.net http://daringfireball.net (opinion) When bored: reddit tumblr

officemonkey 15y ago

Right now I'm reading "Game of Thrones" on my kindle. Before that I was on a Jules Verne kick: "Around the World in 80 Days", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" are all great fun. Sometimes I even read something work-related: "Bureaucracy" by James Wilson and "Managing the Unexpected" by Weick and Sutcliffe.

hobolobo 15y ago

Robert Fisk at the Independent writes brilliantly on the Middle East. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/ http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/

keyle 15y ago

http://supapaper.com/ http://supapaper.com/

sktrdie 15y ago
Do the colors provide any meaning? Like maybe red is 'hotter news' or something?
- keyle 15y ago
  No it's purely for skimming through and making the difference between the articles title. As a separator if you like.

rms 15y ago

http://www.lesswrong.com http://www.lesswrong.com http://www.kottke.org http://www.kottke.org http://www.boingboing.net http://www.boingboing.net http://www.longform.org http://www.longform.org http://www.reddit.com http://www.reddit.com

scrabbles 15y ago

I look forward to seeing updates to these feeds, though they aren't always daily. PeteSearch: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/ http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/ SimoleonSense: http://www.simoleonsense.com/ http://www.simoleonsense.com/ O'Reilly Radar: http://radar.oreilly.com/ http://radar.oreilly.com/ The various "planet" feeds (planet lisp, haskell) and "r bloggers" are always great sources of news too.

djm 15y ago

Every few days or so I have a look through the new submissions to http://longreads.com http://longreads.com. It lists longer articles from other places on the web and is a welcome change to the short contentless articles I come accross everywhere else.

delinka 15y ago

"...what else do you read?" I sincerely apologize for giving in to my Grammar Nazi impulse. Please understand that although it is not an excuse, reading the "Logical Punctuation" article has made me ... temporarily insane. Thank you.

tobylane 15y ago

Metafilter, Lifehacker and bits of most of that network, Onethingwell, Marco.org, DaringFireball, BBC news, Arstechnica, Superuser, GiveMeSomethingToRead. I've bookmarked about 100 blogs to read later, so I ignore new posts from these sources to those blogs. I'd say Metafilter is my main and highest quality source. In real life all I read is http://www.theweek.co.uk/ http://www.theweek.co.uk/ and Instapaper with the odd tech or music magazine.

gbog 15y ago

Since my wife offered me a Kindle, I happen to read interesting classics found on http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org: Les Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand De la démocratie en Amérique, Alexis de Tocqueville À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust

paganel 15y ago

Lew Rockwell's blog : http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/ http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/ Economist.com blogs, especially the Johnson blog (http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson) and the "Free exchange" blog (http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange) Planet Python : http://planet.python.org/ http://planet.python.org/ The Erlang sub-reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/erlang http://www.reddit.com/r/erlang

MrJagil 15y ago

HN, macrumors etc. but of the more interesting sort: http://www.loper-os.org/ http://www.loper-os.org/ http://fangsandarrows.com/ http://fangsandarrows.com/ http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/ http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/ http://jadering.blogspot.com/ http://jadering.blogspot.com/ http://www.quietearth.us/ http://www.quietearth.us/ http://www.pulpmovies.com/ http://www.pulpmovies.com/ http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/ http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/ and backbrain http://lighthouseinteger.blogspot.com/ http://lighthouseinteger.blogspot.com/

keke_ta 15y ago

Penn Olson(http://www.penn-olson.com/ http://www.penn-olson.com/) Marketgeek(http://marketgeek.net/net/ http://marketgeek.net/net/) Quora(http://www.quora.com/ http://www.quora.com/) Techmeme(http://www.techmeme.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/)

cschmidt 15y ago

The Economist is great, although I mostly "read" the audio edition in my car on my horrible commute.

uriel 15y ago
The audio edition of The Economist is absolutely fantastic, as well read as it is well written, a pleasure to listen to.

tammer 15y ago

http://www.harpers.org http://www.harpers.org get yourself a subscription. today.

andrewl 15y ago

Arts & Letters Daily: http://www.aldaily.com/ http://www.aldaily.com/ Cool Tools: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ Philip Greenspun's blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/

DanielStraight 15y ago

Trying to pick things not yet mentioned. Cooking blogs (I read a bunch more, but these are the best): http://thestonesoup.com/blog/ http://thestonesoup.com/blog/ http://smittenkitchen.com/ http://smittenkitchen.com/ http://globaltableadventure.com/ http://globaltableadventure.com/ A blog ostensibly about learning Japanese but really about learning anything: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ Humor: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php http://www.qwantz.com/index.php http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ Programming: http://prog21.dadgum.com/ http://prog21.dadgum.com/ Inspiration / business: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ http://www.jamesaltucher.com/ http://unicornfree.com/ http://unicornfree.com/ A little of everything: http://jsomers.net/blog/ http://jsomers.net/blog/

mythobit 15y ago
I've got to +1 Hyperbole and a Half, very funny.
sayemm 15y ago
+1 for James Altucher's blog, no one writes about business war stories like he does. He lays it out straight for you.

jkaljundi 15y ago

http://utopic.me/ http://utopic.me/ to provide personal automated reading suggestions.

blumentopf 15y ago

German suggestions: Tech: http://heise.de/newsticker/ http://heise.de/newsticker/ http://blog.fefe.de/ http://blog.fefe.de/ (security & conspiracies) http://blog.koehntopp.de/ http://blog.koehntopp.de/ (database stuff) Design: http://designtagebuch.de/ http://designtagebuch.de/ http://ulani.de/ http://ulani.de/ Media: http://bildblog.de/ http://bildblog.de/ Economics: http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/ http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/ http://weissgarnix.de/ http://weissgarnix.de/ http://verlorenegeneration.de/ http://verlorenegeneration.de/ Politics: http://blog.till-westermayer.de/ http://blog.till-westermayer.de/

tonycore 15y ago

http://www.Newz.io http://www.Newz.io - Searchable magazine organized by topic that pulls from thousands of top publishers. For instance if I wanted to see all the bin laden news i go to http://www.newz.io/bin-laden http://www.newz.io/bin-laden and it'll create a magazine on those keywords

rvijapurapu 15y ago

My day starts with http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org Then HN, then general news. I guess I'm a sucker for Technology news.

BasilAwad 15y ago

Can someone play with the data and report where the HN links are coming from?

nollidge 15y ago

Excellent science blogs: Bad Astronomy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy Frontal Cortex (neuropsych type stuff): http://www.wired.com/wiredscience http://www.wired.com/wiredscience Not Exactly Rocket Science (general science, mostly biology): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience

sayemm 15y ago

tech news: http://sayem.me http://sayem.me http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://finance.yahoo.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/ Twitter, Reddit, StackOverflow, High Scalability

pacohn 15y ago

http://hubski.com http://hubski.com Like HN meets twitter.

dagski 15y ago
second. hubski is my daily stop for interesting reads.

bluegene 15y ago

TechNews: Techmeme, Techcrunch, Daring fireball, Oreilly News, Official Google Blog Hardware: AnandTech, RealWorld Technologies, StorageMojo, ServerFault Blog, Gustavo Duarte, Security: A Day in the Life of IS investigator, Microsoft Security Research Center, Layer 8, Fun: Reddit, Boston Globe's Big Picture, Atlantic's In Focus, Others: Lifehacker, The Art of Manliness, Windows PowerShell blog, Paul Graham Essays, Anil Dash, Catonmat, Joel Spolsky, MintLife, High Scalability, The old new Thing

migrantgeek 15y ago

I limit my subs to mostly tech and feeds that post infrequently but well. I go back and forth between enabling Hacker News and disabling it. It's too busy and distracting sometimes when I need to get things done and I don't want to get lost it some lengthy article somewhere. Here are my current feeds sans HN http://abstrusegoose.com http://abstrusegoose.com http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ http://cmurphycode.posterous.com http://cmurphycode.posterous.com http://acmel.wordpress.com http://acmel.wordpress.com http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/ http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/ http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/ http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/ http://www.cpeterson.org http://www.cpeterson.org http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ http://blogs.iss.net http://blogs.iss.net http://ignorethecode.net http://ignorethecode.net http://blog.lastinfirstout.net/ http://blog.lastinfirstout.net/ http://linuxsysadminblog.com http://linuxsysadminblog.com http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com http://planetsysadmin.com/ http://planetsysadmin.com/ http://teddziuba.com/ http://teddziuba.com/ http://toroid.org/ams/etc http://toroid.org/ams/etc

pragmatic 15y ago

Books. Books have a relevance that's hard to match with blog posts, newspapers and magazines. Books from 200 to 2000 years ago still have a lot of relevance. (Human nature hasn't changed much). So instead of reading about the latest privacy invasion from Facebook or the latest startup that no one will know about in 2 years, try a book. I'm trying this myself. Spending less time on hacker news, and more time with good books. So far, much more satisfying. You feel like you accomplished something after finishing a good book. Versus feeling like you wasted a morning/night reading through "timely news".

tttp 15y ago
And go for the ones with real pages on real paper. The ones you can lend to your friends after having read them. The ones that your parents have read, kept and that you took in their bookshelf when you were a kid. The ones that your friends gave back to you and that will wait in your bookshelf for your children to take and read. The ones their friends will borrow and that will probably giggle a bit, because they will have difficulties deciphering the notes your father wrote on a margin. Because if content has a price, knowledge ought to be free.
- kristofferR 15y ago
  To be frank - your comment is just an appeal to nostalgia, not practicality. It comes off in the same way as when some people try to tell you that buying MP3s on the net is wrong and that buying physical CDs are the only right way to do it. Ebooks have huge advantages compared to physical books. They're availble everywhere (no need for long errands/waiting just to find the book you seek), much cheaper, searchable and don't take up space in your home. They're not lendable (yet), but that's the only issue with them. I'm not saying that ebooks are "the correct choice". A lot of people still love the feeling of physical books, perhaps rightly so. But please don't tell me that buying ebooks are somehow wrong or any lesser than buying physical books.
  - mattholling 15y ago
    Don't forget about the lack of a secondhand market for ebooks. That's a big disadvantage.

iSimone 15y ago

I have two things going every morning: 1) I flip through my Reeder app on the iPad which has a mix of blogs in there that either publish far too ofter (like techcrunch) or far too seldom (like avc.com; ok that one's in between). I however try to have a great selection of various topics in there from architecture, design (like swiss-miss.com) to the tech kind-of news. 2) Then I have a selection of apps or Safari bookmarks sitting on my first iPad page that I go through in a bit more detailed fashion. I'm listing them below: - dribbble.com (dribbblr app) - quora.com - forrst.com - macrumors.com - thenextweb.com - flipboard app - twitter app Then I'm ready to start the day and go on with it. Not included are philosophical books I try to read, but I don't read nearly as much as I should.

Symmetry 15y ago

The Economist (dead tree edition) http://lesswrong.com/ http://lesswrong.com/ Thinking about thinking http://www.realworldtech.com/ http://www.realworldtech.com/ For really in depth articles on computer topics, and the forums http://www.anandtech.com/ http://www.anandtech.com/ for hardware benchmarks and reviews http://blog.regehr.org/ http://blog.regehr.org/ a blog about C compilers and hiking http://marginalrevolution.com/ http://marginalrevolution.com/ Economics progressor joint blog http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/ http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/ Intelligent and sane liberal blogger http://www.theatlantic.com/megan-mcardle/ http://www.theatlantic.com/megan-mcardle/ Intelligent and sane conservative blogger. "Conservative" might actually be a bit of a stretch there... http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/ http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/ About space travel/combat - its almost a guilty pleasure. Also the blogs of a few authors and friends.

justinhj 15y ago
http://moreintelligentlife.com/ http://moreintelligentlife.com/ this is a good read I found on a trip to the UK, a quarterly from the Economist. Long interesting articles

Sukotto 15y ago

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kongqiu 15y ago

Books: The Bible, Kundera, Bolano, Borges, Sebald, Robert Caro, Naipaul, Milosz, Blake Web: Exiledonline, Matt Taibbi, Borderland Beat, NYRB

iamchmod 15y ago

Anything Neal Asher writes "Gridlinked", "The Skinner", "Line War"

rplacd 15y ago

Everyone's already mentioned plenty of sites on the net, so I'll just list my quad-fecta of magazines/periodicals - Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, NYRB.

ignifero 15y ago

Apart from HN (i have them all in my bookmarks toolbar): http://twitter.com http://twitter.com http://arstechnica.com http://arstechnica.com http://news.bbc.co.uk http://news.bbc.co.uk http://www.boingboing.net http://www.boingboing.net http://spiegel.de/international/ http://spiegel.de/international/ http://www.technologyreview.com/ http://www.technologyreview.com/ http://www.engadget.com/ http://www.engadget.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ http://www.techcrunch.com/ (yes , i am that guy) http://europe.wsj.com/home-page http://europe.wsj.com/home-page every wednesday: http://theoatmeal.com/ http://theoatmeal.com/ http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ shameless plug: http://textchannels.com/ http://textchannels.com/

alphaBetaGamma 15y ago

Many things that have already been mentioned, plus the free newsletter from STRATFOR. I'm thinking of subscribing. It offers a very cynical view of geopolitics, quite different of what you see in the mainstream media. I find it thought provoking. For example, their analysis of the Syrian crisis: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110504-making-sense-syrian-crisis http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110504-making-sense-syrian-...

pamelafox 15y ago

I'm currently reading a set of 10 blogs that revolve around design/branding/user experience, as I want to improve my skills there. I wrote up a post with links to them here: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/05/reading-my-way-to-better-design.html http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/05/reading-my-way-to-better-d... (And to be meta about it, I based that list of blogs on a previous hackernews thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103578 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103578)

karlzt 15y ago

gmail, physics books.

rivalis 15y ago

Random stuff. Really high-entropy, high-novelty stuff, as different from research papers and math/cs textbooks as I can manage (these make up the bulk of my reading material). Currently: - Portrait of a Lady - The Illiad - A collection of Walter Benjamin's very early work - The Braddock Essays (a collection of award-winning essays about teaching composition to college students)