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Ask HN: Websites / Apps that aren't a waste of time?
With X, formerly Twitter, going the way it has, I find myself lacking spaces on the internet to scroll and learn things at the same time (besides this one.)
Where does HN spend their downtime on the internet?
- JSTrading 2y agoReddit is unusable
- petargyurov 2y ago> aren't a waste of time > spaces on the internet to scroll These 2 are mutually exclusive ;)
- flymaipie 2y ago“Scroll and learn” sounds like oxymoron.
- nejsjsjsbsb 2y agoScrolling is OK if there is an end. Like a blog post!
- karles 2y agoRead newspapers. Read about Philisophy and society. Look up data on national/local trends (national/local government usually have databasen). Educate yourself. Lord knows the world need more of that in the coming years.
- scarface_74 2y agoWhen you find interesting blog posts on HN, skim the other articles on the blog and if they seem interesting, subscribe to their RSS feeds. For the Mac/iOS I use NetNewsWire. It syncs over iCloud and it’s free and open source. I deleted my Reddit account last year after 8 years.
- mancerayder 2y agoIs there a windows or android NetNewsWire-equivalent?
- bobheadmaker 2y agoHave you tried joining any relevant discord groups?
- 9283409232 2y agoSetup an RSS feed.
- nom 2y ago> to scroll and learn things Maybe you can approach this a bit differently, it sounds like you are looking for another place to waste your time without learning anything. Learning doesn't happen by scrolling.
- mancerayder 2y agoCounterpoint: you don't know what you don't know. When scrolling Hackernews, intriguing topics abound that I never thought about before, much less even asked myself the question about. And I read the comments and become interested in a new area. Counter-counterpoint: attention moves to something else before much learning was performed...
- entrepy123 2y agoYou could try the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link: https://www.well.com https://www.well.com/about-2/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
- mancerayder 2y agoQuora isn't horrible, but sadly it seems it's kind of intrusive from a privacy perspective. Still it has interesting insights on psychology and personal experiences, with people who enjoy writing. It's like an organized Q and A blog.
- scarface_74 2y agoQuora is so bad that it’s the only site that I specifically block to make sure I don’t go by there by mistake
- austin-cheney 2y ago* Worldle * Sedecordle * Jellyfin
- AznHisoka 2y agoLiterally nothing public, unfortunately. I just got some private chats and slack groups where i interact in once in awhile.
- readyplayernull 2y agoI've found very niche groups in Reddit to be huge sources of information, not even interrogating LLMs can possibly provide as much value. Though you will keep fighting Reddit's recommendations all day, every day.