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Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?

251 points by v_ignatyev 3y ago

Please answer in comments. Thank you!

ggariepy 3y ago
I've read The Code Project Insider for at least ten years, possibly quite a few more. It is similar to HN, sometimes but not always sourcing articles from it, with a bit of a .NET focus. It's a really good way to keep up with the industry, mailed out for free daily. You can see the current edition online at https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=17275&_z=3328512 https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=1...
OldGuyInTheClub 3y ago
artsjournal.com
hifikuno 3y ago
I don't think it counts as a news feed but I do enjoy browsing the hackaday.com. It's a bit hit and miss on the content but sometimes there are quite interesting projects on there.
- jvanderbot 3y ago
  I adore hackaday, but it makes me immensely sad that I'm not working more on homebrew robotics / hardware stuff. I've been working in robotics for almost 15 years and could probably put out some nice kits / tutorials if I took the time.
  - calini 3y ago
    https://hackaday.com/ https://hackaday.com/ You're all welcome :)
brightball 3y ago
bleepingcomputer.com is good. They banned me on their forums after I said hello, so the moderation is a bit questionable. Content is good though. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
ZFleck 3y ago
I actually found Hacker News through https://brutalist.report/ https://brutalist.report/ . Nice conglomeration of headlines/links from lots of different sources. Lots of tech and science, but also a good mix of global news.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
  I love this, thank you!
- creyes12345 3y ago
  Damn! I feel like I just hit the mother lode with this website.
- rodolphoarruda 3y ago
  Thanks for sharing this. I've got their point about keeping the website as simple as possible using HTML, CSS and no JS, but hey, why not make an exception around UI theming? I'd love to see it in a sepia background color and serif types. That black BG with a blue sans type is doing evil to my retina.
- nokya 3y ago
  Thanks a lot for sharing this, I've been procrastinating doing an aggregated news feed with the simplest html possible for years and seeing this live just made me happy. Thank you!
rasulkireev 3y ago
Lobste.rs is HN but for tech only. https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs
- Kovah 3y ago
  Do you have, by any chance, an invitation for Lobste.rs?
  - valenterry 3y ago
    Same question :-)
    - qznc 3y ago
      Sent one to Kovah but you don’t have an email address in your profile.
      - Kovah 3y ago
        Thank you so much!
  - mordae 3y ago
    Try asking on IRC: https://lobste.rs/chat https://lobste.rs/chat
- zabana 3y ago
  Found out about the site yesterday and would love to get an invite if you have one to spare (email is in my profile) !
  - rasulkireev 3y ago
    Unfortunately I don't since I got heavily downvoted for posting a Crypto Tutorial I made. It wasn't scam or anything, just a func little tutorial on how to create your own crypto coin.
  - qznc 3y ago
PrimeMcFly 3y ago
Ashamed to say still Slashdot, have it in my RSS, old habits die hard. Otherwise various reddit subs since people are quick to post breaking news in whatever field I'm interested in. Then a bunch of newspapers/sources from around the world to try and get a balanced overview of things.
- tjpnz 3y ago
  What happened to the comments? Fifteen or so years back you would read things which were occasionally insightful. Now it's mostly shit posting.
  - PrimeMcFly 3y ago
    There's still the occasional insightful comment or discussion, but mostly it's useless. Like a lot of stuff in my RSS the headlines are enough.
  - jemmyw 3y ago
    I kept going for way too long before shifting to hn. The comments on slashdot were so adversarial that whatever you post expect to be called an idiot. Plus having to scroll past the ASCII art swastika every day got to me and I wouldn't want my wife looking over my shoulder.
poisonborz 3y ago
HN should really have automated threads like this once every year or so.
- slushh 3y ago
  Next to ask | show | jobs, there could be a link to a list of permanent threads.
  - sshine 3y ago
    I ran a forum that pinned a link collection. They need maintenance and they’re not always things that everyone agrees on. Sporadic threads where everyone posts are a lot easier to interpret and don’t require maintenance.
kome 3y ago
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- jvanderbot 3y ago
  I forgot about slashdot.org because for a while all the frontpage links were found on HN in a nicer format. Lately however, they have had complementary content, which is nice.
  - MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
    I still really appreciate their moderation system. It ain't perfect but you occasionally see highly moderated opposing viewpoints which is difficult to achieve.
- esperent 3y ago
  It's like HN, but right wing and with ads. Nothing like the great site I remember from ten or so years ago, sadly.
kitd 3y ago
The Register has a good range of news articles, presented in a slightly satirical style. Avoid the comments though. https://www.theregister.com/ https://www.theregister.com/
derbOac 3y ago
Freshnews (https://www.freshnews.org/ https://www.freshnews.org/)
- Zizizizz 3y ago
  Thanks!
ninkendo 3y ago
Ars Technica, I've been there since 2002 and I pay for premium most of the time.
- tapper 3y ago
  I love Ars Technica!
- bryanlarsen 3y ago
  The commenters on Ars hate Elon Musk but love SpaceX. The conflict can be "interesting" at times.
  - haswell 3y ago
    That sounds rather similar to the prevailing attitudes here and it seems fairly understandable.
    - MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
      Understandable yes, but it has reached the point of unnecessary dog piling. Ars also stokes the flames by featuring as many Elon headlines as possible, and they aren't particularly objective.
brador 3y ago
https://skimfeed.com https://skimfeed.com has that simple brutalist interface you need in the morning.
- Ladyady 3y ago
  Not mobile-friendly though, unfortunately
spython 3y ago
I've been reading https://www.metafilter.com/ https://www.metafilter.com/ for more cultural things, though the site changed quite a bit over the twenty years of its existence.
oli5679 3y ago
Marginalrevolution is a good blog, covering current affairs, economics, finance and technology issues. One of the posters, Tyler Cowen, is great at aggregating and summarising information and it’s a combination of links and quite short thought pieces that get posted daily. https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
- bryanlarsen 3y ago
  The comments section on marginalrevolution is complete drek, though. I do appreciate the stories, but have to be better at avoiding the comments.
fooddood 3y ago
https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.newsminimalist.com/ This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news
- tmikaeld 3y ago
  This is my go-to now as well, I’m only interested in significant events without the noise and this one has been great!
- noneofthismatte 3y ago
  Does this service have yesterdays ranking somewhere? Similarly to HN past pages?
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- jemmyw 3y ago
  Looks cool but most of the top stories today were from the guardian, which I already read.
scrollaway 3y ago
I’m active on https://tildes.net https://tildes.net. It’s invite only but got an influx of new users the last couple of days with the Reddit changes. If someone wants an invite, let me know by email (see profile).
- hestefisk 3y ago
  Looks interesting. Sent you an email.
  - scrollaway 3y ago
    Thanks! I’m out of invites already but I’ll send you a new one very soon.
anonymous_i 3y ago
techmeme.com
anonymou2 3y ago
peakoilbarrel.com
randomnottaken 3y ago
https://mosfet.net/ https://mosfet.net/ is quite enjoyable.
- johnea 3y ago
  Interesting headlines! Sadly, doesn't work w/o javascript...
donohoe 3y ago
For casual browsing and deeper reads I find myself going here: https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://restofworld.org/ https://restofworld.org/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://pudding.cool/ https://pudding.cool/ https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire
- unconed 3y ago
  Scrolling through that pudding site, right away I notice the tell tale sign of midwit misconception. - a story makes claims about women in the news, without any controls or comparison to men (i.e. it's useless) - a story presents one of those toy economic models about random trades between people, not realizing they are complete nonsense with zero predictive power This is just what I notice on a first visit. It's extremely well produced nonsense.
  - devsegal 3y ago
    I really wish more blogs took on this creative approach. it's hard but such an excellent presentation style. IMO it's the best form of sharing information online
  - Bukhmanizer 3y ago
    Lol are you really complaining about the veracity of a site with the headline “every time someone says ‘cool’ in community”? They’re cute little stories with decent presentation, not the economist.
- LoulouMonkey 3y ago
  Thanks for the recommendations. Bleepingcomputer is a website I've been following for a while too. Great source of information.
redbell 3y ago
For me, it’s Google Discover
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fhd2 3y ago
Possibly not what you're asking since it's nothing like HN, but the other two sites I constantly check for news are theguardian.com and spiegel.de (because I'm German). Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama or similar in the main stream news before it shows up on HN - usually stories I end up finding in both turn up on HN first. That's all I read - no social media or anything, too much noise, costs too much time. I'm just trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my country, the world and my field. Used to read Slashdot and others for the latter, but lately I noticed HN has pretty much everything I find relevant (and the odd delightful oddity, my favourites).
ulrischa 3y ago
Not much that can compete with HN. Dev.to
ArekDymalski 3y ago
For general world news&commentary I've chosen Axios and The Conversation. For the quick&dirty pulse check on tech/science trends or rumors - Futurism and Futurity. https://www.axios.com/ https://www.axios.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://www.futurity.org/ https://www.futurity.org/
Tade0 3y ago
oilprice.com - apparently a news source becomes surprisingly useful when it's not trying to hide its biases.
- photochemsyn 3y ago
  I follow that one, it's very good. For the full energy picture see also: https://renewablesnow.com/ https://renewablesnow.com/
FiddlerClamp 3y ago
Tech news: https://www.techmeme.com/river https://www.techmeme.com/river (mostly US) Political news: https://www.memeorandum.com/river https://www.memeorandum.com/river
- drewchew 3y ago
  these were mini but to be honest i stopped reading them after i found hacker news. memeorandum became addictive for me because i could go there any minute of the day and see new and depressing doom and gloom, but it only ever feels reflective of the last 24 hours of the news cycle. i'd love a memeorandum that was only published weekly or even monthly.
mellosouls 3y ago
Nothing else comes close tbh. I probably lack some worthwhile cultural hinterland due to HN's liberal but sciencey remit. Arts & Letters Daily would be a good addition. But there's nothing that really feels of comparable value for me personally and I've tried many of the options that are suggested here and have been before in these kinds of threads.
- derbOac 3y ago
  I was going to add Arts & Letters Daily to my other comment as another mention. A&L Daily is an interesting feed but I have to admit I don't read it as often as something like HN and haven't kept track of it in awhile. It doesn't have the "current news" character of something like HN and is a bit hit or miss in terms material feeling compelling enough to read thoroughly, at least for me personally. At the same time, A&L Daily curates a certain type of content that I haven't seen targeted anywhere else in a feed/aggregation. There's a certain amount of overlap with HN, but it's kind of complementary. I wish there was something like A&L Daily that was updated more often, with more material, but maybe it's just not out there.
mosiuerbarso 3y ago
https://researchbuzz.me/ https://researchbuzz.me/ Run by the tireless Tara Calishain. Covers the world of search engines, archives, social media, online information collections, and other interesting stuff. She's been running the site 1998. Not many sites like this around much these days.
- amitagarwal 3y ago
  +1 There are very few people like Tara who have been curating such good stuff for such a long time.
- Calishat 3y ago
  Hey,thanks very much. I was wondering where all that traffic was coming from. For those of you who are more interested in very specific information, there's also ResearchBuzz Firehose, which indexes individual items so you can do tag- and query-monitoring without trouble. Here's an article on how to make the most of it: https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/23/introducing-the-researchbuzz-firehose-how-to-use-it/ https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/23/introducing-the-researchb... It's wonderful to see people getting into RSS and news feeds again. I have a site called RSSGizmos.com with a number of tools for making the most of RSS, including a keyword-based RSS feed generator and a tool to make RSS feeds using Bing News' loc: syntax. Everything's free and there are no ads. Thank you again, it was so kind of you to mention my site.
  - mosiuerbarso 3y ago
    Hahaha. No probs Tara. I've been a long term reader of your site for probably a decade or so, and i've found loads of useful/ interesting stuff over the years because of it. I honestly don't know how you keep up with all the things you post about (do you ever sleep:-). Hope you and the family are well and keep up the good work;-) If any HN readers are into RSS, monitoring topics/keywords and finding obscure stuff online I recommend checking out her tools/guides. She has some pretty creative stuff on there which are usually free to use/implement.
bromanko 3y ago
https://join1440.com/ https://join1440.com/ I’ve been getting my daily news recap from 1440. It keeps to the claim of unbiased summaries and is the length I’ve been looking for.
- MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
  This! Also look at Chartr, a (sibling? similar?) newsletter with interesting data.
bradgessler 3y ago
https://legiblenews.com https://legiblenews.com once per day for major news headlines.
- mprime1 3y ago
  FYI is a 1:1 repackage of Wikipedia current events page. Without citing the original source. If you want to bypass the (unethical) middleman, try this feed: https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/ Edit: oh. you’re the middleman. https://bradgessler.com/projects/legible-news/ https://bradgessler.com/projects/legible-news/
  - bradgessler 3y ago
    Yep! I reformat it so it’s more readable, donate $1 per subscription to the Wikimedia foundation, and display link to a content license per page. It’s about as unethical as clicking the “Reader” button in your browser.
    - contravariant 3y ago
      It's not quite the same when you don't attribute clearly. Clicking reader may have the same end result, but it leaves no doubt as to where the information comes from.
mozman 3y ago
All news is toxic. I don't read it.
- shrimp_emoji 3y ago
  Don't look up!
  - chickenl1ttle 3y ago
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- extr0pian 3y ago
  Agreed (mostly). HN is a form of news, but personally, I rarely consume The News™. A useful read is Robert Dobelli's essay "Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet": https://chuck.is/files/Avoid%20News_%20Toward%20a%20Healthy%20News%20Diet%20-%20Rolf%20Dobelli.pdf https://chuck.is/files/Avoid%20News_%20Toward%20a%20Healthy%...
gumballindie 3y ago
I just run a locally containerised rss feed aggregator and have my own news feed.
- contravariant 3y ago
  Which one? It's something I've considered trying out for some time.
  - nkcmr 3y ago
    FreshRSS is pretty robust. Been running it on my own server for almost a year with zero issues.
    - jeauxlb 3y ago
      FreshRSS is brilliant. Its ability to fetch full pages, filter CSS elements and utilise session cookies from my browser make it very easy to get a full-text article from most websites I'm interested in. If you're able to spend a little time fine-tuning after you set it up, it can be a very rewarding installation.
  - esperent 3y ago
    If you don't want to run your own service, Innoreader is good.
  - gumballindie 3y ago
    As others recommended - freshrss, in a container. Trivial to setup: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/freshrss https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/freshrss
- v3gas 3y ago
  "Just" :D
  - that_guy_iain 3y ago
    If it's just a case of "docker compose up" then it's just.
dorianmariefr 3y ago
Twitter, emails, text messages
kabanossen 3y ago
Once a week: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- drewchew 3y ago
  i was literally drafting a wordier version of the same post. just enough to know that nothings actually going on.
- oezi 3y ago
  Seems highly random. Why would the Indian Premier Cricket League and Indy 500 be featured? These are national news which only a few people care about outside the respective countries.
  - nnain 3y ago
    Could be because the Indian Premier Cricket League (IPL), which started in 2008, is huge now. Here's the per match broadcast value of sports leagues around the world (Jun 2023): 1.NFL: $17 million 2. IPL: $13.4 million 3. EPL: $11 million 4. MLB: $11 million 5. NBA: $9 million
11235813213455 3y ago
does weather count as news feed?
- v_ignatyev 3y ago
  well... Don't you read anything else, do you?
throwaway2037 3y ago
Everyday, the Financial Times blog, called FT AlphaVille, has an article called "FTAV’s further reading". Sample: https://www.ft.com/content/26e8d3a3-34e7-43b2-9927-829047027d0f https://www.ft.com/content/26e8d3a3-34e7-43b2-9927-829047027... It is an excellent jumping off point!
jamses 3y ago
For a summary of news I look at https://emm.newsbrief.eu https://emm.newsbrief.eu
aendruk 3y ago
Global: - https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day) Local: - https://publicola.com https://publicola.com (20/month) - https://washingtonstatewire.com https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month) - https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month) - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month) - https://seattletransitblog.com https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month) - https://wasmoke.blogspot.com https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month) - https://washingtonbeerblog.com https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day) Tech: - https://weeklyosm.eu https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week) - https://this-week-in-rust.org https://this-week-in-rust.org (1/week) - https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix (1/week) - https://discourse.nixos.org/top https://discourse.nixos.org/top (5/day) Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day).
- that_guy_iain 3y ago
  Do you just spend all your time reading stuff?
  - aendruk 3y ago
    Aggregating these frees me to forget about them in the rest of my life. When I scroll to the end of the timeline it actually stops, with no distractions; I reach “the end of the internet” every day.
    - aendruk 3y ago
      I just remembered that my phone tracks app usage. It says I’m spending an average of 27 minutes per day.
- hoerzu 3y ago
  Daily Ai aggregator: https://news.mioses.com https://news.mioses.com
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doitLP 3y ago
Is there any AMA or other article where @dang or other mods discuss what it takes to keep this site/community the way it is? Wondering if it could be a template for others but curious how to sausage is made.
65 3y ago
I built my own RSS feed reader web app. The difference is that it proxies the HTML of the article page, transforms it (e.g. removes advertising, adds custom styling/scripts) so that I can view the original article but with modifications to the website. I have other features like headline filters and the ability to load non-feed pages like the NYTimes home page as a feed item. The feeds themselves are mostly random subreddits, Hypebeast, some NYTimes sections, etc. It works a lot better than manually going to each website and browsing around looking for new content.
- stanislavb 3y ago
  Yeah, I use my own opinionated feed reader, too. I’ve also structured it so that others can use it, too. lenns.io - the top feature for me is setting different priorities per source or category.
hansc 3y ago
Embedded HW (commercial): https://www.cnx-software.com/ https://www.cnx-software.com/ Electronics (diy): https://hackaday.com/blog/ https://hackaday.com/blog/
sanman811 3y ago
The only other news I consume is via AllSides: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news They take a headline and present an article from different 3 news sources. The 3 sources will include left leaning, right leaning and more neutral new organizations so you get a perspective from all sides.
- splendor_spoon 3y ago
  Seems off they consider AP left leaning and then classify The Hill in the center.
  - throwaway743 3y ago
    For The Hill it's probably because they're usually left leaning but some of their presenters lean more libertarian or center
  - Rassi 3y ago
    They actually survey their subscribers/readers regularly to compile and/or update a consensus of where the various news organizations they use should be placed on their left/right/center classifications.
- aftergibson 3y ago
  This is awesome! Anyone know of a UK equivalent?
  - mjfisher 3y ago
    It's not quite the same, but The Week is a magazine (available online too) which summarises news stories using the perspectives of many different media outlets. It's about as broadminded and objective as you can get, I think.
- xpe 3y ago
  Three sides curated from one source is not “all sides”.
exposition 3y ago
https://hardwary.com/ https://hardwary.com/ for hardware news
ferociouskite56 3y ago
http://www.digitimes.com/rss/daily.xml http://www.digitimes.com/rss/daily.xml https://liliputing.com/feed https://liliputing.com/feed https://linmob.net/feed.xml https://linmob.net/feed.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/armdevices http://feeds.feedburner.com/armdevices https://www.cnx-software.com/feed/ https://www.cnx-software.com/feed/ https://www.microled-info.com/rss.xml https://www.microled-info.com/rss.xml https://www.mondo2000.com/feed/ https://www.mondo2000.com/feed/ https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/feed https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/feed https://www.madinamerica.com/feed/ https://www.madinamerica.com/feed/ https://www.cancelledscifi.com/feed/ https://www.cancelledscifi.com/feed/ https://semiengineering.com/feed/ https://semiengineering.com/feed/ Google News Alerts
dkwr 3y ago
I have an RSS Feed reader where I randomly subscribe to blogs which I find here or on other places. Here's an incomplete list of the pages which I check on a daily basis. Tech: https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://inside.java/ https://inside.java/ Art: https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/ News: https://www.spiegel.de/ https://www.spiegel.de/ (mainly, but others too!)
aufeld 3y ago
www.foxnews.com
- aufeld 3y ago
  jk
kyrra 3y ago
https://wsj.com https://wsj.com Another way of getting news is an old fashioned newspaper. Being able to leaf through it lets you see headlines and quickly scan an article to see if it's interesting compared to clicking around on the web. I actually find it a fairly nice way to see lots of different things. There are many things in the newspaper that are interesting to read that I likely wouldn't have clicked on if I saw the title in some news feed.
benwerd 3y ago
I start every day with RSS subscriptions using NewsBlur (https://newsblur.com https://newsblur.com) and Reeder (https://reederapp.com https://reederapp.com). I've also set up a page so other people can see my subscriptions / what I'm reading: https://sources.werd.io https://sources.werd.io
myshpa 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/environment https://old.reddit.com/r/environment https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse
wahnfrieden 3y ago
https://libcom.org https://libcom.org
- v_ignatyev 3y ago
  Is it a communists and libertarians community?
  - wahnfrieden 3y ago
    specifically libertarian communist. authoritarian communists and capitalist libertarians are antithetical to it
rebolyte 3y ago
I’ll often check the finance-related articles on Abnormal Returns, and the non-finance Saturday links usually lead somewhere interesting. https://abnormalreturns.com/ https://abnormalreturns.com/
gwbas1c 3y ago
I read the newsfeed on Pixel (or Android?) that shows up when I keep swiping right on my home screen. Brave also has a newsfeed that's tempting to switch over to. I used to love reading the news on Facebook, but not anymore. It's all agendas and people with axes to grind.
dontlaugh 3y ago
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ https://morningstaronline.co.uk/
manbitesdog 3y ago
As aggregators, just Polygon (polygon.com), The Verge (theverge.com) and Microsiervos (microsiervos.com). When I find an interesting personal website there I add it to my Telegram RSS feed notifier (@feedzbot), which notifies me twice a day with their new posts. At this point I have 50+ feeds there so the feed is pretty long.
nologic01 3y ago
I use a desktop RSS news reader that aggregates several hundreds of feeds from blogs and other interesting places (which I then filter by topic). It actually works better than HN as you don't get distracted by all the hypes or up/down-voting drama (you can also add the HN feed).
zeroonetwothree 3y ago
The best thing I ever did for my mental health is stop reading news feeds.
- freahsteaksauce 3y ago
  Wait how did you end up here?
jrm4 3y ago
FWIW, like many others here I rolled my own RSS reader; but mostly to REMOVE features, not to add them. Namely, I think one of the worst "features" in RSS readers is "tracking whether or not you've read every single little thing with numbers," so I wrote mine to just leave all that out and give me the top 20 or so of the day. If I miss anything, SO WHAT. https://gitlab.com/jrm4/mahrss https://gitlab.com/jrm4/mahrss
TySchultz 3y ago
I built a news digest for myself after I couldn't find a good yahoo news digest alternative. It's a once a day feed of 6-10 stories. Simple and quick enough to keep myself informed. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
HaZeust 3y ago
- https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news - https://www.academia.edu/ https://www.academia.edu/ - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ - https://theconversation.com/us https://theconversation.com/us - https://ground.news/ https://ground.news/ - https://sumi.news/ https://sumi.news/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events - https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- d0mine 3y ago
  What is your opinion on how well all sides are represented on allsides.com or how balanced/unbiased the news there?
  - HaZeust 3y ago
    I mean, I like it. Allsides.com's "side" identification are decided by viewers, so I'm at the mercy of the majority's observational skills. Luckily, they show a viewer more than just the one "left", "right" and "center" outlet's coverage, so if I disagree with one topic's assessment on which outlet should be the spokesperson for which end of the spectrum, I can look for whatever outlet in that topic I think would be better suited for the role. Allsides.com does not fix the eternal vigilance needed for news cycles in our modern age, but it does make it easier.
rcpt 3y ago
I feel like there's a humblebrag bias in these responses.
dethos 3y ago
Mostly https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ . The rest are RSS feeds of blogs and other sources picked by myself.
fabacef 3y ago
- https://www.phoronix.com/ https://www.phoronix.com/ - https://www.storagereview.com/ https://www.storagereview.com/ - https://www.bbc.com/ https://www.bbc.com/ - https://www.dw.com/en/ https://www.dw.com/en/ and Twitter etc
squillion 3y ago
I read the daily Links post of https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ It's mainly focused on economics and geopolitics, from a leftist perspective.
ldehaan 3y ago
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Georgelemental 3y ago
https://www.allsides.com https://www.allsides.com for a US national news feed that's not tilted toward a particular faction.
gbrayut 3y ago
I highly recommend the https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ podcast by Tom Merritt which usually runs 30 minutes episodes, or their 5 minute Daily Tech Headlines version.
westcort 3y ago
I made an application to read the weather for a given zip code and to read the news from VOA, NPR, and SKY: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html To customize it for your zip code, add your zip code to the end, like this: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210 https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210 You can also make a shortcut for that personalized zip code link. If you just want text weather, that is available too: https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210 https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210 Most surprisingly, this is an entirely static page and has no dependencies. You could download the HTML file and it would still fetch the news feeds and weather! No tracking!
aagha 3y ago
Techmeme.com And remember slashdot.com?
FrostAlot 3y ago
I have created a feed aggregator at https://techblogz.onrender.com https://techblogz.onrender.com (also at http://techblogz.co http://techblogz.co, sorry, got to fix it to https). It's a collection of engineering blogs specifically from tech companies (updated daily). At some point in the past, I wanted to search for a specific technical term (like Kubernetes) across all those blogs to understand how that technology is being used at various companies. But I found it a pain to do this search since you have to search for that term in each blog one by one. So to solve the problem, I created this. It is also helpful for tech interview preparation. I would love for you guys to try it out and provide some feedback.
rkeniger 3y ago
Specifically for Australian tech nerds, The Sizzle (https://thesizzle.com.au https://thesizzle.com.au) is fantastic. It's the only source of tech news that has a real Aussie feel to it, and that discusses Australian tech news as well as that on a global level.
av919 3y ago
- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/ https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/ - https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/ https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/ - https://www.architecture-weekly.com/ https://www.architecture-weekly.com/ - https://betterdev.link/ https://betterdev.link/ - https://stratechery.com/ https://stratechery.com/
vinodv79 3y ago
git.news

251 points by v_ignatyev 3y ago

Please answer in comments. Thank you!

I've read The Code Project Insider for at least ten years, possibly quite a few more. It is similar to HN, sometimes but not always sourcing articles from it, with a bit of a .NET focus. It's a really good way to keep up with the industry, mailed out for free daily. You can see the current edition online at https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=17275&_z=3328512 https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=1...

OldGuyInTheClub 3y ago

artsjournal.com

hifikuno 3y ago

I don't think it counts as a news feed but I do enjoy browsing the hackaday.com. It's a bit hit and miss on the content but sometimes there are quite interesting projects on there.

jvanderbot 3y ago
I adore hackaday, but it makes me immensely sad that I'm not working more on homebrew robotics / hardware stuff. I've been working in robotics for almost 15 years and could probably put out some nice kits / tutorials if I took the time.
- calini 3y ago
  https://hackaday.com/ https://hackaday.com/ You're all welcome :)

brightball 3y ago

bleepingcomputer.com is good. They banned me on their forums after I said hello, so the moderation is a bit questionable. Content is good though. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

ZFleck 3y ago

I actually found Hacker News through https://brutalist.report/ https://brutalist.report/ . Nice conglomeration of headlines/links from lots of different sources. Lots of tech and science, but also a good mix of global news.

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
I love this, thank you!
creyes12345 3y ago
Damn! I feel like I just hit the mother lode with this website.
rodolphoarruda 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I've got their point about keeping the website as simple as possible using HTML, CSS and no JS, but hey, why not make an exception around UI theming? I'd love to see it in a sepia background color and serif types. That black BG with a blue sans type is doing evil to my retina.
nokya 3y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing this, I've been procrastinating doing an aggregated news feed with the simplest html possible for years and seeing this live just made me happy. Thank you!

rasulkireev 3y ago

Lobste.rs is HN but for tech only. https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs

Kovah 3y ago
Do you have, by any chance, an invitation for Lobste.rs?
- valenterry 3y ago
  Same question :-)
  - qznc 3y ago
    Sent one to Kovah but you don’t have an email address in your profile.
    - Kovah 3y ago
      Thank you so much!
- mordae 3y ago
  Try asking on IRC: https://lobste.rs/chat https://lobste.rs/chat
zabana 3y ago
Found out about the site yesterday and would love to get an invite if you have one to spare (email is in my profile) !
- rasulkireev 3y ago
  Unfortunately I don't since I got heavily downvoted for posting a Crypto Tutorial I made. It wasn't scam or anything, just a func little tutorial on how to create your own crypto coin.
- qznc 3y ago

PrimeMcFly 3y ago

Ashamed to say still Slashdot, have it in my RSS, old habits die hard. Otherwise various reddit subs since people are quick to post breaking news in whatever field I'm interested in. Then a bunch of newspapers/sources from around the world to try and get a balanced overview of things.

tjpnz 3y ago
What happened to the comments? Fifteen or so years back you would read things which were occasionally insightful. Now it's mostly shit posting.
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago
  There's still the occasional insightful comment or discussion, but mostly it's useless. Like a lot of stuff in my RSS the headlines are enough.
- jemmyw 3y ago
  I kept going for way too long before shifting to hn. The comments on slashdot were so adversarial that whatever you post expect to be called an idiot. Plus having to scroll past the ASCII art swastika every day got to me and I wouldn't want my wife looking over my shoulder.

poisonborz 3y ago

HN should really have automated threads like this once every year or so.

slushh 3y ago
Next to ask | show | jobs, there could be a link to a list of permanent threads.
- sshine 3y ago
  I ran a forum that pinned a link collection. They need maintenance and they’re not always things that everyone agrees on. Sporadic threads where everyone posts are a lot easier to interpret and don’t require maintenance.

kome 3y ago

jvanderbot 3y ago
I forgot about slashdot.org because for a while all the frontpage links were found on HN in a nicer format. Lately however, they have had complementary content, which is nice.
- MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
  I still really appreciate their moderation system. It ain't perfect but you occasionally see highly moderated opposing viewpoints which is difficult to achieve.
esperent 3y ago
It's like HN, but right wing and with ads. Nothing like the great site I remember from ten or so years ago, sadly.

kitd 3y ago

The Register has a good range of news articles, presented in a slightly satirical style. Avoid the comments though. https://www.theregister.com/ https://www.theregister.com/

derbOac 3y ago

Freshnews (https://www.freshnews.org/ https://www.freshnews.org/)

Zizizizz 3y ago
Thanks!

ninkendo 3y ago

Ars Technica, I've been there since 2002 and I pay for premium most of the time.

tapper 3y ago
I love Ars Technica!
bryanlarsen 3y ago
The commenters on Ars hate Elon Musk but love SpaceX. The conflict can be "interesting" at times.
- haswell 3y ago
  That sounds rather similar to the prevailing attitudes here and it seems fairly understandable.
  - MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
    Understandable yes, but it has reached the point of unnecessary dog piling. Ars also stokes the flames by featuring as many Elon headlines as possible, and they aren't particularly objective.

brador 3y ago

https://skimfeed.com https://skimfeed.com has that simple brutalist interface you need in the morning.

Ladyady 3y ago
Not mobile-friendly though, unfortunately

spython 3y ago

I've been reading https://www.metafilter.com/ https://www.metafilter.com/ for more cultural things, though the site changed quite a bit over the twenty years of its existence.

oli5679 3y ago

Marginalrevolution is a good blog, covering current affairs, economics, finance and technology issues. One of the posters, Tyler Cowen, is great at aggregating and summarising information and it’s a combination of links and quite short thought pieces that get posted daily. https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

bryanlarsen 3y ago
The comments section on marginalrevolution is complete drek, though. I do appreciate the stories, but have to be better at avoiding the comments.

fooddood 3y ago

https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.newsminimalist.com/ This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news

tmikaeld 3y ago
This is my go-to now as well, I’m only interested in significant events without the noise and this one has been great!
noneofthismatte 3y ago
Does this service have yesterdays ranking somewhere? Similarly to HN past pages?
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jemmyw 3y ago
Looks cool but most of the top stories today were from the guardian, which I already read.

scrollaway 3y ago

I’m active on https://tildes.net https://tildes.net. It’s invite only but got an influx of new users the last couple of days with the Reddit changes. If someone wants an invite, let me know by email (see profile).

hestefisk 3y ago
Looks interesting. Sent you an email.
- scrollaway 3y ago
  Thanks! I’m out of invites already but I’ll send you a new one very soon.

anonymous_i 3y ago

techmeme.com

anonymou2 3y ago

peakoilbarrel.com

randomnottaken 3y ago

https://mosfet.net/ https://mosfet.net/ is quite enjoyable.

johnea 3y ago
Interesting headlines! Sadly, doesn't work w/o javascript...

donohoe 3y ago

For casual browsing and deeper reads I find myself going here: https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://restofworld.org/ https://restofworld.org/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://pudding.cool/ https://pudding.cool/ https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire

unconed 3y ago
Scrolling through that pudding site, right away I notice the tell tale sign of midwit misconception. - a story makes claims about women in the news, without any controls or comparison to men (i.e. it's useless) - a story presents one of those toy economic models about random trades between people, not realizing they are complete nonsense with zero predictive power This is just what I notice on a first visit. It's extremely well produced nonsense.
- devsegal 3y ago
  I really wish more blogs took on this creative approach. it's hard but such an excellent presentation style. IMO it's the best form of sharing information online
- Bukhmanizer 3y ago
  Lol are you really complaining about the veracity of a site with the headline “every time someone says ‘cool’ in community”? They’re cute little stories with decent presentation, not the economist.
LoulouMonkey 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. Bleepingcomputer is a website I've been following for a while too. Great source of information.

redbell 3y ago

For me, it’s Google Discover

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fhd2 3y ago

Possibly not what you're asking since it's nothing like HN, but the other two sites I constantly check for news are theguardian.com and spiegel.de (because I'm German). Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama or similar in the main stream news before it shows up on HN - usually stories I end up finding in both turn up on HN first. That's all I read - no social media or anything, too much noise, costs too much time. I'm just trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my country, the world and my field. Used to read Slashdot and others for the latter, but lately I noticed HN has pretty much everything I find relevant (and the odd delightful oddity, my favourites).

ulrischa 3y ago

Not much that can compete with HN. Dev.to

ArekDymalski 3y ago

For general world news&commentary I've chosen Axios and The Conversation. For the quick&dirty pulse check on tech/science trends or rumors - Futurism and Futurity. https://www.axios.com/ https://www.axios.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://www.futurity.org/ https://www.futurity.org/

Tade0 3y ago

oilprice.com - apparently a news source becomes surprisingly useful when it's not trying to hide its biases.

photochemsyn 3y ago
I follow that one, it's very good. For the full energy picture see also: https://renewablesnow.com/ https://renewablesnow.com/

FiddlerClamp 3y ago

Tech news: https://www.techmeme.com/river https://www.techmeme.com/river (mostly US) Political news: https://www.memeorandum.com/river https://www.memeorandum.com/river

drewchew 3y ago
these were mini but to be honest i stopped reading them after i found hacker news. memeorandum became addictive for me because i could go there any minute of the day and see new and depressing doom and gloom, but it only ever feels reflective of the last 24 hours of the news cycle. i'd love a memeorandum that was only published weekly or even monthly.

mellosouls 3y ago

Nothing else comes close tbh. I probably lack some worthwhile cultural hinterland due to HN's liberal but sciencey remit. Arts & Letters Daily would be a good addition. But there's nothing that really feels of comparable value for me personally and I've tried many of the options that are suggested here and have been before in these kinds of threads.

derbOac 3y ago
I was going to add Arts & Letters Daily to my other comment as another mention. A&L Daily is an interesting feed but I have to admit I don't read it as often as something like HN and haven't kept track of it in awhile. It doesn't have the "current news" character of something like HN and is a bit hit or miss in terms material feeling compelling enough to read thoroughly, at least for me personally. At the same time, A&L Daily curates a certain type of content that I haven't seen targeted anywhere else in a feed/aggregation. There's a certain amount of overlap with HN, but it's kind of complementary. I wish there was something like A&L Daily that was updated more often, with more material, but maybe it's just not out there.

mosiuerbarso 3y ago

https://researchbuzz.me/ https://researchbuzz.me/ Run by the tireless Tara Calishain. Covers the world of search engines, archives, social media, online information collections, and other interesting stuff. She's been running the site 1998. Not many sites like this around much these days.

amitagarwal 3y ago
+1 There are very few people like Tara who have been curating such good stuff for such a long time.
Calishat 3y ago
Hey,thanks very much. I was wondering where all that traffic was coming from. For those of you who are more interested in very specific information, there's also ResearchBuzz Firehose, which indexes individual items so you can do tag- and query-monitoring without trouble. Here's an article on how to make the most of it: https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/23/introducing-the-researchbuzz-firehose-how-to-use-it/ https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/23/introducing-the-researchb... It's wonderful to see people getting into RSS and news feeds again. I have a site called RSSGizmos.com with a number of tools for making the most of RSS, including a keyword-based RSS feed generator and a tool to make RSS feeds using Bing News' loc: syntax. Everything's free and there are no ads. Thank you again, it was so kind of you to mention my site.
- mosiuerbarso 3y ago
  Hahaha. No probs Tara. I've been a long term reader of your site for probably a decade or so, and i've found loads of useful/ interesting stuff over the years because of it. I honestly don't know how you keep up with all the things you post about (do you ever sleep:-). Hope you and the family are well and keep up the good work;-) If any HN readers are into RSS, monitoring topics/keywords and finding obscure stuff online I recommend checking out her tools/guides. She has some pretty creative stuff on there which are usually free to use/implement.

bromanko 3y ago

https://join1440.com/ https://join1440.com/ I’ve been getting my daily news recap from 1440. It keeps to the claim of unbiased summaries and is the length I’ve been looking for.

MetaWhirledPeas 3y ago
This! Also look at Chartr, a (sibling? similar?) newsletter with interesting data.

bradgessler 3y ago

https://legiblenews.com https://legiblenews.com once per day for major news headlines.

mprime1 3y ago
FYI is a 1:1 repackage of Wikipedia current events page. Without citing the original source. If you want to bypass the (unethical) middleman, try this feed: https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/ Edit: oh. you’re the middleman. https://bradgessler.com/projects/legible-news/ https://bradgessler.com/projects/legible-news/
- bradgessler 3y ago
  Yep! I reformat it so it’s more readable, donate $1 per subscription to the Wikimedia foundation, and display link to a content license per page. It’s about as unethical as clicking the “Reader” button in your browser.
  - contravariant 3y ago
    It's not quite the same when you don't attribute clearly. Clicking reader may have the same end result, but it leaves no doubt as to where the information comes from.

mozman 3y ago

All news is toxic. I don't read it.

shrimp_emoji 3y ago
Don't look up!
- chickenl1ttle 3y ago
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extr0pian 3y ago
Agreed (mostly). HN is a form of news, but personally, I rarely consume The News™. A useful read is Robert Dobelli's essay "Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet": https://chuck.is/files/Avoid%20News_%20Toward%20a%20Healthy%20News%20Diet%20-%20Rolf%20Dobelli.pdf https://chuck.is/files/Avoid%20News_%20Toward%20a%20Healthy%...

gumballindie 3y ago

I just run a locally containerised rss feed aggregator and have my own news feed.

contravariant 3y ago
Which one? It's something I've considered trying out for some time.
- nkcmr 3y ago
  FreshRSS is pretty robust. Been running it on my own server for almost a year with zero issues.
  - jeauxlb 3y ago
    FreshRSS is brilliant. Its ability to fetch full pages, filter CSS elements and utilise session cookies from my browser make it very easy to get a full-text article from most websites I'm interested in. If you're able to spend a little time fine-tuning after you set it up, it can be a very rewarding installation.
- esperent 3y ago
  If you don't want to run your own service, Innoreader is good.
- gumballindie 3y ago
  As others recommended - freshrss, in a container. Trivial to setup: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/freshrss https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/freshrss
v3gas 3y ago
"Just" :D
- that_guy_iain 3y ago
  If it's just a case of "docker compose up" then it's just.

dorianmariefr 3y ago

Twitter, emails, text messages

kabanossen 3y ago

Once a week: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

drewchew 3y ago
i was literally drafting a wordier version of the same post. just enough to know that nothings actually going on.
oezi 3y ago
Seems highly random. Why would the Indian Premier Cricket League and Indy 500 be featured? These are national news which only a few people care about outside the respective countries.
- nnain 3y ago
  Could be because the Indian Premier Cricket League (IPL), which started in 2008, is huge now. Here's the per match broadcast value of sports leagues around the world (Jun 2023): 1.NFL: $17 million 2. IPL: $13.4 million 3. EPL: $11 million 4. MLB: $11 million 5. NBA: $9 million

11235813213455 3y ago

does weather count as news feed?

v_ignatyev 3y ago
well... Don't you read anything else, do you?

throwaway2037 3y ago

Everyday, the Financial Times blog, called FT AlphaVille, has an article called "FTAV’s further reading". Sample: https://www.ft.com/content/26e8d3a3-34e7-43b2-9927-829047027d0f https://www.ft.com/content/26e8d3a3-34e7-43b2-9927-829047027... It is an excellent jumping off point!

jamses 3y ago

For a summary of news I look at https://emm.newsbrief.eu https://emm.newsbrief.eu

aendruk 3y ago

Global: - https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day) Local: - https://publicola.com https://publicola.com (20/month) - https://washingtonstatewire.com https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month) - https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month) - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month) - https://seattletransitblog.com https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month) - https://wasmoke.blogspot.com https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month) - https://washingtonbeerblog.com https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day) Tech: - https://weeklyosm.eu https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week) - https://this-week-in-rust.org https://this-week-in-rust.org (1/week) - https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix (1/week) - https://discourse.nixos.org/top https://discourse.nixos.org/top (5/day) Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day).

that_guy_iain 3y ago
Do you just spend all your time reading stuff?
- aendruk 3y ago
  Aggregating these frees me to forget about them in the rest of my life. When I scroll to the end of the timeline it actually stops, with no distractions; I reach “the end of the internet” every day.
  - aendruk 3y ago
    I just remembered that my phone tracks app usage. It says I’m spending an average of 27 minutes per day.
hoerzu 3y ago
Daily Ai aggregator: https://news.mioses.com https://news.mioses.com
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doitLP 3y ago

Is there any AMA or other article where @dang or other mods discuss what it takes to keep this site/community the way it is? Wondering if it could be a template for others but curious how to sausage is made.

65 3y ago

I built my own RSS feed reader web app. The difference is that it proxies the HTML of the article page, transforms it (e.g. removes advertising, adds custom styling/scripts) so that I can view the original article but with modifications to the website. I have other features like headline filters and the ability to load non-feed pages like the NYTimes home page as a feed item. The feeds themselves are mostly random subreddits, Hypebeast, some NYTimes sections, etc. It works a lot better than manually going to each website and browsing around looking for new content.

stanislavb 3y ago
Yeah, I use my own opinionated feed reader, too. I’ve also structured it so that others can use it, too. lenns.io - the top feature for me is setting different priorities per source or category.

hansc 3y ago

Embedded HW (commercial): https://www.cnx-software.com/ https://www.cnx-software.com/ Electronics (diy): https://hackaday.com/blog/ https://hackaday.com/blog/

sanman811 3y ago

The only other news I consume is via AllSides: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news They take a headline and present an article from different 3 news sources. The 3 sources will include left leaning, right leaning and more neutral new organizations so you get a perspective from all sides.

splendor_spoon 3y ago
Seems off they consider AP left leaning and then classify The Hill in the center.
- throwaway743 3y ago
  For The Hill it's probably because they're usually left leaning but some of their presenters lean more libertarian or center
- Rassi 3y ago
  They actually survey their subscribers/readers regularly to compile and/or update a consensus of where the various news organizations they use should be placed on their left/right/center classifications.
aftergibson 3y ago
This is awesome! Anyone know of a UK equivalent?
- mjfisher 3y ago
  It's not quite the same, but The Week is a magazine (available online too) which summarises news stories using the perspectives of many different media outlets. It's about as broadminded and objective as you can get, I think.
xpe 3y ago
Three sides curated from one source is not “all sides”.

exposition 3y ago

https://hardwary.com/ https://hardwary.com/ for hardware news

ferociouskite56 3y ago

http://www.digitimes.com/rss/daily.xml http://www.digitimes.com/rss/daily.xml https://liliputing.com/feed https://liliputing.com/feed https://linmob.net/feed.xml https://linmob.net/feed.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/armdevices http://feeds.feedburner.com/armdevices https://www.cnx-software.com/feed/ https://www.cnx-software.com/feed/ https://www.microled-info.com/rss.xml https://www.microled-info.com/rss.xml https://www.mondo2000.com/feed/ https://www.mondo2000.com/feed/ https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/feed https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/feed https://www.madinamerica.com/feed/ https://www.madinamerica.com/feed/ https://www.cancelledscifi.com/feed/ https://www.cancelledscifi.com/feed/ https://semiengineering.com/feed/ https://semiengineering.com/feed/ Google News Alerts

dkwr 3y ago

I have an RSS Feed reader where I randomly subscribe to blogs which I find here or on other places. Here's an incomplete list of the pages which I check on a daily basis. Tech: https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://inside.java/ https://inside.java/ Art: https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/ News: https://www.spiegel.de/ https://www.spiegel.de/ (mainly, but others too!)

aufeld 3y ago

www.foxnews.com

aufeld 3y ago
jk

kyrra 3y ago

https://wsj.com https://wsj.com Another way of getting news is an old fashioned newspaper. Being able to leaf through it lets you see headlines and quickly scan an article to see if it's interesting compared to clicking around on the web. I actually find it a fairly nice way to see lots of different things. There are many things in the newspaper that are interesting to read that I likely wouldn't have clicked on if I saw the title in some news feed.

benwerd 3y ago

I start every day with RSS subscriptions using NewsBlur (https://newsblur.com https://newsblur.com) and Reeder (https://reederapp.com https://reederapp.com). I've also set up a page so other people can see my subscriptions / what I'm reading: https://sources.werd.io https://sources.werd.io

myshpa 3y ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/environment https://old.reddit.com/r/environment https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse

wahnfrieden 3y ago

https://libcom.org https://libcom.org

v_ignatyev 3y ago
Is it a communists and libertarians community?
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  specifically libertarian communist. authoritarian communists and capitalist libertarians are antithetical to it

rebolyte 3y ago

I’ll often check the finance-related articles on Abnormal Returns, and the non-finance Saturday links usually lead somewhere interesting. https://abnormalreturns.com/ https://abnormalreturns.com/

gwbas1c 3y ago

I read the newsfeed on Pixel (or Android?) that shows up when I keep swiping right on my home screen. Brave also has a newsfeed that's tempting to switch over to. I used to love reading the news on Facebook, but not anymore. It's all agendas and people with axes to grind.

dontlaugh 3y ago

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ https://morningstaronline.co.uk/

manbitesdog 3y ago

As aggregators, just Polygon (polygon.com), The Verge (theverge.com) and Microsiervos (microsiervos.com). When I find an interesting personal website there I add it to my Telegram RSS feed notifier (@feedzbot), which notifies me twice a day with their new posts. At this point I have 50+ feeds there so the feed is pretty long.

nologic01 3y ago

I use a desktop RSS news reader that aggregates several hundreds of feeds from blogs and other interesting places (which I then filter by topic). It actually works better than HN as you don't get distracted by all the hypes or up/down-voting drama (you can also add the HN feed).

zeroonetwothree 3y ago

The best thing I ever did for my mental health is stop reading news feeds.

freahsteaksauce 3y ago
Wait how did you end up here?

jrm4 3y ago

FWIW, like many others here I rolled my own RSS reader; but mostly to REMOVE features, not to add them. Namely, I think one of the worst "features" in RSS readers is "tracking whether or not you've read every single little thing with numbers," so I wrote mine to just leave all that out and give me the top 20 or so of the day. If I miss anything, SO WHAT. https://gitlab.com/jrm4/mahrss https://gitlab.com/jrm4/mahrss

TySchultz 3y ago

I built a news digest for myself after I couldn't find a good yahoo news digest alternative. It's a once a day feed of 6-10 stories. Simple and quick enough to keep myself informed. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131

HaZeust 3y ago

- https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news - https://www.academia.edu/ https://www.academia.edu/ - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ - https://theconversation.com/us https://theconversation.com/us - https://ground.news/ https://ground.news/ - https://sumi.news/ https://sumi.news/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events - https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/

d0mine 3y ago
What is your opinion on how well all sides are represented on allsides.com or how balanced/unbiased the news there?
- HaZeust 3y ago
  I mean, I like it. Allsides.com's "side" identification are decided by viewers, so I'm at the mercy of the majority's observational skills. Luckily, they show a viewer more than just the one "left", "right" and "center" outlet's coverage, so if I disagree with one topic's assessment on which outlet should be the spokesperson for which end of the spectrum, I can look for whatever outlet in that topic I think would be better suited for the role. Allsides.com does not fix the eternal vigilance needed for news cycles in our modern age, but it does make it easier.

rcpt 3y ago

I feel like there's a humblebrag bias in these responses.

dethos 3y ago

Mostly https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ . The rest are RSS feeds of blogs and other sources picked by myself.

fabacef 3y ago

- https://www.phoronix.com/ https://www.phoronix.com/ - https://www.storagereview.com/ https://www.storagereview.com/ - https://www.bbc.com/ https://www.bbc.com/ - https://www.dw.com/en/ https://www.dw.com/en/ and Twitter etc

squillion 3y ago

I read the daily Links post of https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ It's mainly focused on economics and geopolitics, from a leftist perspective.

ldehaan 3y ago

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Georgelemental 3y ago

https://www.allsides.com https://www.allsides.com for a US national news feed that's not tilted toward a particular faction.

gbrayut 3y ago

I highly recommend the https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ podcast by Tom Merritt which usually runs 30 minutes episodes, or their 5 minute Daily Tech Headlines version.

westcort 3y ago

I made an application to read the weather for a given zip code and to read the news from VOA, NPR, and SKY: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html To customize it for your zip code, add your zip code to the end, like this: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210 https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210 You can also make a shortcut for that personalized zip code link. If you just want text weather, that is available too: https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210 https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210 Most surprisingly, this is an entirely static page and has no dependencies. You could download the HTML file and it would still fetch the news feeds and weather! No tracking!

aagha 3y ago

Techmeme.com And remember slashdot.com?

FrostAlot 3y ago

I have created a feed aggregator at https://techblogz.onrender.com https://techblogz.onrender.com (also at http://techblogz.co http://techblogz.co, sorry, got to fix it to https). It's a collection of engineering blogs specifically from tech companies (updated daily). At some point in the past, I wanted to search for a specific technical term (like Kubernetes) across all those blogs to understand how that technology is being used at various companies. But I found it a pain to do this search since you have to search for that term in each blog one by one. So to solve the problem, I created this. It is also helpful for tech interview preparation. I would love for you guys to try it out and provide some feedback.

rkeniger 3y ago

Specifically for Australian tech nerds, The Sizzle (https://thesizzle.com.au https://thesizzle.com.au) is fantastic. It's the only source of tech news that has a real Aussie feel to it, and that discusses Australian tech news as well as that on a global level.

av919 3y ago

- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/ https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/ - https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/ https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/ - https://www.architecture-weekly.com/ https://www.architecture-weekly.com/ - https://betterdev.link/ https://betterdev.link/ - https://stratechery.com/ https://stratechery.com/

vinodv79 3y ago

git.news