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Ask HN: What is your daily reading list?

117 points by nns 13y ago

Besides HN can you list one website that you go to the moment you get connected.

thoughtcriminal 13y ago
Slashdot: http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org, and I have been for over 10 years.
- kaolinite 13y ago
  I read Slashdot for many years however Hacker News has replaced it for me now. The quality of discussion has become very poor over there plus the stories are often a few days old before they hit the frontpage.
  - zokier 13y ago
    I think the summaries are the thing that make me stay on /., especially as HN has strict no-editorializing title policy. I've many times missed an interesting story on HN, then read it from /. and came back to HN for comments.
  - papsosouid 13y ago
    The quality of discussion on slashdot has never approached "very poor". It was always much worse than that, going all the way back to 1998.
ilovekhym 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ i use this chrome extension to easily check for new content: http://feeder.co/ http://feeder.co/
jeena 13y ago
http://stern.de http://stern.de for catching up with normal news.
petercooper 13y ago
Reddit, for sure. If you haven't tried it for a while, give it another go. There are some excellent sub-Reddits and just turning off some of the worst default ones can make a big difference to the quality.
- nrbafna 13y ago
  What subreddits do you recommend?
  - huhtenberg 13y ago
    This one is oddly fascinating - http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ There are also these - http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ There's also /r/startups, but it's plain boring.
    - DanBC 13y ago
      > This one is oddly fascinating - >http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ I love that Reddit. I use it to practice my websearch skills. When I have some knowledge about something I know what words to use, so going to that subreddit gives me a bunch of stuff where I have no knowledge at all, and I need to learn the right words to use.
  - petercooper 13y ago
    There's almost a sub-Reddit for everything so making recommendations is a bit like recommending your favorite bands, but some I particularly enjoy are.. /r/business, /r/coding, /r/cogsci, /r/compsci, /r/compscipapers, /r/etymology, /r/html5, /r/javascript, /r/LifeProTips, /r/programmerhumor, /r/programming, /r/tinycode, /r/wheredidthesodago In a way it's a bit like the new Usenet, at least in terms of being able to pick and choose from so many different topics.
DanBC 13y ago
Thomson Reuters Foundation - (http://www.trust.org/?show=alertnethumanitarian http://www.trust.org/?show=alertnethumanitarian) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs -(http://www.irinnews.org/ http://www.irinnews.org/)
qompiler 13y ago
Some of the stackexchange websites http://stackoverflow.com/ http://stackoverflow.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://answers.onstartups.com/ http://answers.onstartups.com/
cipher0 13y ago
phys.org singularityhub.com fastcompany.com
npguy 13y ago
Collection of High-Quality Feeds: http://talll.com http://talll.com for tech and http://filll.com http://filll.com for finance.
yread 13y ago
I recommend http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ for new web stuff (somewhat .NET oriented)
trumbitta2 13y ago
I prefer using Flipboard to skim through my Twitter feed + some channels like Gaming, Robert Scoble, Wired (and Hacker News Comments). Edit: and - of course - whenever I find something interesting, I stop skimming and start reading :)
brador 13y ago
600 headlines, 60 tech feeds - http://skimfeed.com http://skimfeed.com
- nns 13y ago
  This is cool ! Thanks for the link.
- kbart 13y ago
  I gave it a try and the first thing I noticed on the top of Popular category "Memes: How Many Can You Name?". So no, thanks.
arethuza 13y ago
From November to April - http://www.winterhighland.info/ http://www.winterhighland.info/
jkldotio 13y ago
I'm a politics junkie/anorak for Australia/UK as well as multiple other countries and polities. I have been completely dissatisfied with the precipitous decline, as well as pay-walling, of broadsheets over the last decade and a half that I've been a regular reader. They simply can't do serious coverage because adverts demand they do lowest common denominator reporting. Also I want more than one side to a story and basically all papers, whether they like to declare it or not, have a position and so I end up at least going to two broadsheets to settle my mind on an issue. Reddit was good for a while but the memes, insults, manipulation of multiple subreddits by racist groups (/r/worldnews, /r/europe) and the bashing down of anything that isn't left-wing on others (again, I want to see all points of view) got me very tired of it. Twitter is good, but there is so much you can miss, links aren't headlines and I have absolutely zero interest in the meme-like jocularity and 'what I had for lunch' postings. Although discovery is fairly good it's entirely subject to the filter bubble effect and people are often ranting to a select group of yes-women and yes-men. I want clustered news and opinion, and I want it ranked globally not against my own personal filter bubble. As there is nothing out there that fits my reading pattern I have started building http://jkl.io http://jkl.io . However crowdfunding hasn't worked to get it going beyond a prototype and so it's going to be longer development cycle to add further features like machine learning (plus votes) ranked comments. But hopefully all that will be done by the end of the year as well as different views and ways of getting into the data. That said, it's now at a stage where it's genuinely my first stop before all the others, and once there are more sources, comments and the like, it will be the perfect overview - for me personally, perhaps not for others - of news/politics/policy/economics/science/tech across the world. Also: criticism here would be most welcome, my other thread asking for feedback from HN never caught on.
ichinaski 13y ago
Articles: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.altdevblogaday.com/ http://www.altdevblogaday.com/ http://www.genbetadev.com/ http://www.genbetadev.com/ (Spanish) http://android-developers.blogspot.com http://android-developers.blogspot.com Webcomics: http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ (Monday, Wednesday & Friday) http://explosm.net/comics/new http://explosm.net/comics/new http://mountsaintawesome.com/index.php http://mountsaintawesome.com/index.php http://abstrusegoose.com/ http://abstrusegoose.com/ Above all, obviously, Hacker News. I spend even more time than all others summed up.
Comkid 13y ago
Rather than having a daily list, I use Feeder (Chrome extension: http://feeder.co/ http://feeder.co/) to read my RSS feeds, I had always preferred it to Google Reader, I never did get myself into the mantra of checking Reader often (it ended up being once every few months, when I randomly remembered) ; however Feeder is nice in its minimalistic approach, just showing me how many items for each feed, which encourages me to zero it out, although unlike Reader it just shows the titles of RSS feed items, so I end up judging whether or not to read an article based on the title. A few feeds I follow: News * Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss [a lot of the posts are repeated over both, and note these are not necessarily the front page posts, my guess is that they are upvoted new posts, so I end up reading some posts before they reach the front page]) * Phoronix - http://www.phoronix.com/ http://www.phoronix.com/ (http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php) * ThreatPost - http://threatpost.com/ http://threatpost.com/ (http://threatpost.com/feed http://threatpost.com/feed) * TheNextWeb - http://thenextweb.com/ http://thenextweb.com/ (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb) * Wired - http://www.wired.com/ http://www.wired.com/ (http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index) * iClarified - http://www.iclarified.com/ http://www.iclarified.com/ (http://iclarified.com/rss/rss.xml http://iclarified.com/rss/rss.xml) * TorrentFreak - https://torrentfreak.com/ https://torrentfreak.com/ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak http://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak) * r/WorldNews - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss) Blogs * Securelist - https://www.securelist.com/ https://www.securelist.com/ (https://www.securelist.com/en/rss/allupdates https://www.securelist.com/en/rss/allupdates) * Buffer Blog - http://blog.bufferapp.com/ http://blog.bufferapp.com/ (http://blog.bufferapp.com/feed/ http://blog.bufferapp.com/feed/) * Raptitude - http://www.raptitude.com/ http://www.raptitude.com/ (http://www.raptitude.com/feed/ http://www.raptitude.com/feed/) * Priceonomics Blog - http://blog.priceonomics.com/ http://blog.priceonomics.com/ (http://blog.priceonomics.com/rss http://blog.priceonomics.com/rss) * Schneier on Security - http://www.schneier.com/blog/ http://www.schneier.com/blog/ (http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml) * Daring Fireball - http://daringfireball.net/ http://daringfireball.net/ (http://daringfireball.net/index.xml http://daringfireball.net/index.xml) * xkcd blag - http://blag.xkcd.com/ http://blag.xkcd.com/ (http://blog.xkcd.com/feed/ http://blog.xkcd.com/feed/) * Nota Bene (Eugene Kaspersky's blog) - http://eugene.kaspersky.com/ http://eugene.kaspersky.com/ (http://eugene.kaspersky.com/feed/ http://eugene.kaspersky.com/feed/) * Troy Hunt's Blog - http://www.troyhunt.com/ http://www.troyhunt.com/ (http://www.troyhunt.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss http://www.troyhunt.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss) Various * xkcd - http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ (http://xkcd.com/rss.xml http://xkcd.com/rss.xml) * What If? - http://what-if.xkcd.com/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/ (http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom) * OzBargain - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/feed https://www.ozbargain.com.au/feed) * Bret Victor's website - http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/ (http://worrydream.com/feed.xml http://worrydream.com/feed.xml)
jjsz 13y ago
In order: Feedly, Reddit, and Quora.
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kugaevsky 13y ago
Ruby Daily - http://rubydaily.org http://rubydaily.org - for instant news about ruby and webdev. Stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/ http://stackoverflow.com/ - for dev questions and answers.
lunchladydoris 13y ago
I don't really visit websites as such. I use Google Reader as my jumping off point for 75% of what I read online. I hope that once Reader goes dark that I'll find something that fills the void well enough for the transition not to be too harsh. The rest of my reading is done here and in the accompanying comment threads, of course, and also NeoGAF, a video game forum that (I only realized this week) I've been frequenting for well over a decade.
- fcorr 13y ago
  I switched to Feedly from Google Reader, and have more or less adjusted to it. Its main problem is that it demands you use their browser extension, which makes it far less convenient than Google Reader.
  - lunchladydoris 13y ago
    Is the extension at least stable? I seem to have terrible luck with extensions and also seem to run into memory leaks or other issues so I tend to avoid them lately.
mcintyre1994 13y ago
A few people have mentioned Reddits, and some of them really are great. For those who use RSS, you can subscribe to your front page. https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/ https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/ Similarly, if you want a feed of some specific subreddits, you can use something like reddit.com/r/programming+entrepeneur/.rss
SeanDav 13y ago
I get as much value from the comments as the stories themselves so: - HN (still the king for quality of comments as well as generally interesting links) - Reddit (some sub-reddits are very interesting, especially domain specific ones) - Stackoverflow sites (some great info here, but their rather draconian rules on questions that require opinions can cause frustrations as many answers do require some sort of opinion. It is quite amazing how often I get value from questions that have been closed as not constructive.) - BoingBoing.net (used to be a regular but has become too weird for my tastes)
fcorr 13y ago
For news I like bbc.co.uk/news and france24.com I have quite a few rss feeds that I read in the morning Webcomics : gunshowcomic.com dilbert.com smbc-comics.com nedroid.com whompcomic.com http://invisiblebread.com/ http://invisiblebread.com/ http://lawandthemultiverse.com/ http://lawandthemultiverse.com/ is an interesting blog giving a legal perspective on comics and science-fiction. Some web/design blogs : http://speckyboy.com http://speckyboy.com http://smashingmagazine.com http://smashingmagazine.com http://css-tricks.com http://css-tricks.com Hardware : http://anandtech.com http://anandtech.com http://bit-tech.net http://bit-tech.net http://hardware-canucks.com http://hardware-canucks.com http://youtube.com/linustechtips http://youtube.com/linustechtips http://youtube.com/timetolivecustoms http://youtube.com/timetolivecustoms http://toolsandtoys.net http://toolsandtoys.net
delambo 13y ago
The subreddits I subscribe to: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/ http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/ http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ Except for TIL and worldnews, this is a good mix since they all have about the same level of voting and activity.
- lucb1e 13y ago
  Reddit should compensate voting based on subreddit activity. I only have a few subreddits on my homepage, and for example the Bitcoin one gets entirely overruled by TIL.
KennethMyers 13y ago
* My email, where I maintain good, legitimate correspondence. * My RSS reader, where I subscribe to the blogs of friends, plus the Machine Learning Research Institute, Ben Goertzel, and Venkatesh Rao. * Reddit, where I'm split evenly between smart things and slutty things: http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism+anarchotranshumanist+Androgynoushotties+Anthropology+artificial+AskAnthropology+AskCultures+AskHistorians+Assistance+Badass_people+BiGoneMild+Bitcoin+booksuggestions+collapse+communism+confession+cooperatives+dataisbeautiful+DeadBedrooms+deCrypto+DepthHub+DMT+dyke+dykesgonemild+EDC+electronic_cigarette+emogirls+Esperanto+Existentialism+ExoLife+explainlikeimfive+Favors+FifthWorldPics+fifthworldproblems+FiftyFifty+Fitness+forhire+Forth+FriendlyAI+GirlsGoneBitcoin+girlskissing+GirlswithNeonHair+HIPSTERGURLZ+homemadexxx+incest+incorrectphilippines+intentionalcommunity+IWantOut+IWantOutJobs+jobbit+jobpostings+Jobs4Bitcoins+JournalingIsArt+linguistics+littlespace+Loans+LucidDreaming+malefashionadvice+MapPorn+MDMA+neurophilosophy+nihilism+Nomad+Nootropics+okc4okc+OkCupid+p4p+passionx+Persians+Pescetarian+Philippines+polyamory+polygonemild+PostCollapse+ProsePorn+Pyongyang+r4r+Random_Acts_of_Books+Random_Acts_Of_Pizza+resilientcommunities+resumes+ronpaul+RoomPorn+SceneGirls+Scholar+seasteading+self+sex+shorthairedhotties+singularity+Stoicism+SuicideWatch+Survival+Swingers+Tagalog+Thetruthishere+TinyTits+tldr+Waif+wikipedia http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism+anarchotranshuman... )
TeMPOraL 13y ago
HackerNews and LessWrong. I go to Reddit only when I'm looking for something particular or when I'm procrastinating heavily.
amac 13y ago
Techmeme FT Business Insider Reddit
- lucb1e 13y ago
  FT?
  - brnstz 13y ago
    Financial Times - http://www.ft.com/ http://www.ft.com/
jt2190 13y ago
I don't have a daily reading list, as I've found that it harms my productivity. I usually let the problem I'm trying to solve drive me to reading and research. Other than having something to talk about at the water cooler, I've found that trying to "stay informed" or "keep abreast of industry trends" are just excuses for not doing real work.
- choffee 13y ago
  Which is why you find yourself here?
  - jt2190 13y ago
    :) If you must know, I was glancing over the headlines while eating breakfast, pondering how to get a colleague to stop being so theoretical and actually try putting some of their ideas into action. (A very smart person who, as you may have guessed, reads tons of stuff everyday.) To mutilate an old saying: In theory, reading about something and doing something are the same thing. In practice, they're not. (edit: P.S. There was a time when I read everything I could get my hands on. I eventually learned that I much prefer to be effective, not smart.)
- DucktourDreams 13y ago
  Agreed. There IS a point of diminishing returns. I've found i save myself 5-15 minutes a day simply by ignoring all Apple-related news :) The day-to-day is simply same old same old: 10% faster CPU, 10% more pixels, big whoop. Also, while I'm here: http://hackaday.com http://hackaday.com http://diydsp.com http://diydsp.com http://pricewatch.com http://pricewatch.com http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org
prawn 13y ago
http://consumeconsume.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/ http://www.contemporist.com/ http://randomghost.tumblr.com/ Contemporist currently showing errors and occasional CloudFlare messages - load issue? It's architecture/interiors/furniture. If you like futuristic concepts, Random Ghost and its infinite scroll will eat your day. It's amazing. Consume Consume is an incredible mixture of bizarre, awesome or amusing images. A good, occasional break from the grind.
- cpayne624 13y ago
  Why is Consume Consume so awesome? Thx
  - prawn 13y ago
    Because of our planet and everyone on it.
djbender 13y ago
Facebook and Hacker News. My friends post a lot of intriguing articles.
minopret 13y ago
Randy Pausch said in his time management lecture (a good companion to "The Last Lecture") that your criterion for office reading material should be "Will I lose my job if I don't read this?" http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/ http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/
- kintamanimatt 13y ago
  I don't think that's good advice and leads to some very short term thinking. Reading only the stuff that you must in order to not get fired is tantamount to doing to bare minimum. Having a sciolistic knowledge about many topics is helpful when coming up with new ideas (and more importantly, knowing where to look when you need to do a deep dive), as well as making you a well-rounded person.
lucb1e 13y ago
Hackernews, security.stackexchange.com, the Dutch security.nl and Google+. Also Reddit and Twitter now and then (I don't follow a while lot of people, so I can read back the whole week in a matter of minutes). Once a month or so I read xkcd.com and exocomics.com, usually when I'm utterly bored or in a bad mood.
markkat 13y ago
http://hubski.com http://hubski.com http://popurls.com http://popurls.com http://www.brainpickings.org/ http://www.brainpickings.org/ http://kottke.org http://kottke.org
- marban 13y ago
  Thanks for the popurls plug
Thiz 13y ago
Whenever I need a break from tech: http://www.lewrockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com
- Thiz 13y ago
  Also, my reddit preferences http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/ http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/voluntarism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/voluntarism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MarketAnarchism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MarketAnarchism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/ http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/ http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/
rolandal 13y ago
I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned http://www.launch.co http://www.launch.co - @jason's news ticker. Switching to just that has been the most productive thing for my time, and still feel comfortable I'm not missing any relevant news.
xriddle 13y ago
http://techdiem.com/ http://techdiem.com/
bettyx1138 13y ago
jezebel.com
mikeleeorg 13y ago
For business, marketing, and growth-related topics, I use http://quibb.com http://quibb.com
armenarmen 13y ago
lots of Heinlein and Azimov
hncracker 13y ago
Finnbay - www.finnbay.com
kjhosein 13y ago
Well since the question asked for one website, I'd say Google News. It gets me quickly caught up with what's what in the world. OTOH, for a longer read with topics I'm interested in, I hit Zite on my iPad or on my Android phone. I've got Zite configured with my favorite subjects, and now I'm fairly comfortable that I'm hitting 80-90% of the most interesting articles/goings-on without having to hit dozens of feeds or sites.
sheppards 13y ago
slashdot.org

117 points by nns 13y ago

Besides HN can you list one website that you go to the moment you get connected.

thoughtcriminal 13y ago

Slashdot: http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org, and I have been for over 10 years.

kaolinite 13y ago
I read Slashdot for many years however Hacker News has replaced it for me now. The quality of discussion has become very poor over there plus the stories are often a few days old before they hit the frontpage.
- zokier 13y ago
  I think the summaries are the thing that make me stay on /., especially as HN has strict no-editorializing title policy. I've many times missed an interesting story on HN, then read it from /. and came back to HN for comments.
- papsosouid 13y ago
  The quality of discussion on slashdot has never approached "very poor". It was always much worse than that, going all the way back to 1998.

ilovekhym 13y ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ i use this chrome extension to easily check for new content: http://feeder.co/ http://feeder.co/

jeena 13y ago

http://stern.de http://stern.de for catching up with normal news.

petercooper 13y ago

Reddit, for sure. If you haven't tried it for a while, give it another go. There are some excellent sub-Reddits and just turning off some of the worst default ones can make a big difference to the quality.

nrbafna 13y ago
What subreddits do you recommend?
- huhtenberg 13y ago
  This one is oddly fascinating - http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ There are also these - http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ http://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/ There's also /r/startups, but it's plain boring.
  - DanBC 13y ago
    > This one is oddly fascinating - >http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ I love that Reddit. I use it to practice my websearch skills. When I have some knowledge about something I know what words to use, so going to that subreddit gives me a bunch of stuff where I have no knowledge at all, and I need to learn the right words to use.
- petercooper 13y ago
  There's almost a sub-Reddit for everything so making recommendations is a bit like recommending your favorite bands, but some I particularly enjoy are.. /r/business, /r/coding, /r/cogsci, /r/compsci, /r/compscipapers, /r/etymology, /r/html5, /r/javascript, /r/LifeProTips, /r/programmerhumor, /r/programming, /r/tinycode, /r/wheredidthesodago In a way it's a bit like the new Usenet, at least in terms of being able to pick and choose from so many different topics.

DanBC 13y ago

Thomson Reuters Foundation - (http://www.trust.org/?show=alertnethumanitarian http://www.trust.org/?show=alertnethumanitarian) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs -(http://www.irinnews.org/ http://www.irinnews.org/)

qompiler 13y ago

Some of the stackexchange websites http://stackoverflow.com/ http://stackoverflow.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://answers.onstartups.com/ http://answers.onstartups.com/

cipher0 13y ago

phys.org singularityhub.com fastcompany.com

npguy 13y ago

Collection of High-Quality Feeds: http://talll.com http://talll.com for tech and http://filll.com http://filll.com for finance.

yread 13y ago

I recommend http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ for new web stuff (somewhat .NET oriented)

trumbitta2 13y ago

I prefer using Flipboard to skim through my Twitter feed + some channels like Gaming, Robert Scoble, Wired (and Hacker News Comments). Edit: and - of course - whenever I find something interesting, I stop skimming and start reading :)

brador 13y ago

600 headlines, 60 tech feeds - http://skimfeed.com http://skimfeed.com

nns 13y ago
This is cool ! Thanks for the link.
kbart 13y ago
I gave it a try and the first thing I noticed on the top of Popular category "Memes: How Many Can You Name?". So no, thanks.

arethuza 13y ago

From November to April - http://www.winterhighland.info/ http://www.winterhighland.info/

jkldotio 13y ago

I'm a politics junkie/anorak for Australia/UK as well as multiple other countries and polities. I have been completely dissatisfied with the precipitous decline, as well as pay-walling, of broadsheets over the last decade and a half that I've been a regular reader. They simply can't do serious coverage because adverts demand they do lowest common denominator reporting. Also I want more than one side to a story and basically all papers, whether they like to declare it or not, have a position and so I end up at least going to two broadsheets to settle my mind on an issue. Reddit was good for a while but the memes, insults, manipulation of multiple subreddits by racist groups (/r/worldnews, /r/europe) and the bashing down of anything that isn't left-wing on others (again, I want to see all points of view) got me very tired of it. Twitter is good, but there is so much you can miss, links aren't headlines and I have absolutely zero interest in the meme-like jocularity and 'what I had for lunch' postings. Although discovery is fairly good it's entirely subject to the filter bubble effect and people are often ranting to a select group of yes-women and yes-men. I want clustered news and opinion, and I want it ranked globally not against my own personal filter bubble. As there is nothing out there that fits my reading pattern I have started building http://jkl.io http://jkl.io . However crowdfunding hasn't worked to get it going beyond a prototype and so it's going to be longer development cycle to add further features like machine learning (plus votes) ranked comments. But hopefully all that will be done by the end of the year as well as different views and ways of getting into the data. That said, it's now at a stage where it's genuinely my first stop before all the others, and once there are more sources, comments and the like, it will be the perfect overview - for me personally, perhaps not for others - of news/politics/policy/economics/science/tech across the world. Also: criticism here would be most welcome, my other thread asking for feedback from HN never caught on.

ichinaski 13y ago

Articles: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.altdevblogaday.com/ http://www.altdevblogaday.com/ http://www.genbetadev.com/ http://www.genbetadev.com/ (Spanish) http://android-developers.blogspot.com http://android-developers.blogspot.com Webcomics: http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ (Monday, Wednesday & Friday) http://explosm.net/comics/new http://explosm.net/comics/new http://mountsaintawesome.com/index.php http://mountsaintawesome.com/index.php http://abstrusegoose.com/ http://abstrusegoose.com/ Above all, obviously, Hacker News. I spend even more time than all others summed up.

Comkid 13y ago

Rather than having a daily list, I use Feeder (Chrome extension: http://feeder.co/ http://feeder.co/) to read my RSS feeds, I had always preferred it to Google Reader, I never did get myself into the mantra of checking Reader often (it ended up being once every few months, when I randomly remembered) ; however Feeder is nice in its minimalistic approach, just showing me how many items for each feed, which encourages me to zero it out, although unlike Reader it just shows the titles of RSS feed items, so I end up judging whether or not to read an article based on the title. A few feeds I follow: News * Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss [a lot of the posts are repeated over both, and note these are not necessarily the front page posts, my guess is that they are upvoted new posts, so I end up reading some posts before they reach the front page]) * Phoronix - http://www.phoronix.com/ http://www.phoronix.com/ (http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php) * ThreatPost - http://threatpost.com/ http://threatpost.com/ (http://threatpost.com/feed http://threatpost.com/feed) * TheNextWeb - http://thenextweb.com/ http://thenextweb.com/ (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb) * Wired - http://www.wired.com/ http://www.wired.com/ (http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index) * iClarified - http://www.iclarified.com/ http://www.iclarified.com/ (http://iclarified.com/rss/rss.xml http://iclarified.com/rss/rss.xml) * TorrentFreak - https://torrentfreak.com/ https://torrentfreak.com/ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak http://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak) * r/WorldNews - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss) Blogs * Securelist - https://www.securelist.com/ https://www.securelist.com/ (https://www.securelist.com/en/rss/allupdates https://www.securelist.com/en/rss/allupdates) * Buffer Blog - http://blog.bufferapp.com/ http://blog.bufferapp.com/ (http://blog.bufferapp.com/feed/ http://blog.bufferapp.com/feed/) * Raptitude - http://www.raptitude.com/ http://www.raptitude.com/ (http://www.raptitude.com/feed/ http://www.raptitude.com/feed/) * Priceonomics Blog - http://blog.priceonomics.com/ http://blog.priceonomics.com/ (http://blog.priceonomics.com/rss http://blog.priceonomics.com/rss) * Schneier on Security - http://www.schneier.com/blog/ http://www.schneier.com/blog/ (http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml) * Daring Fireball - http://daringfireball.net/ http://daringfireball.net/ (http://daringfireball.net/index.xml http://daringfireball.net/index.xml) * xkcd blag - http://blag.xkcd.com/ http://blag.xkcd.com/ (http://blog.xkcd.com/feed/ http://blog.xkcd.com/feed/) * Nota Bene (Eugene Kaspersky's blog) - http://eugene.kaspersky.com/ http://eugene.kaspersky.com/ (http://eugene.kaspersky.com/feed/ http://eugene.kaspersky.com/feed/) * Troy Hunt's Blog - http://www.troyhunt.com/ http://www.troyhunt.com/ (http://www.troyhunt.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss http://www.troyhunt.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss) Various * xkcd - http://xkcd.com/ http://xkcd.com/ (http://xkcd.com/rss.xml http://xkcd.com/rss.xml) * What If? - http://what-if.xkcd.com/ http://what-if.xkcd.com/ (http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom) * OzBargain - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/feed https://www.ozbargain.com.au/feed) * Bret Victor's website - http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/ (http://worrydream.com/feed.xml http://worrydream.com/feed.xml)

jjsz 13y ago

In order: Feedly, Reddit, and Quora.

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kugaevsky 13y ago

Ruby Daily - http://rubydaily.org http://rubydaily.org - for instant news about ruby and webdev. Stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/ http://stackoverflow.com/ - for dev questions and answers.

lunchladydoris 13y ago

I don't really visit websites as such. I use Google Reader as my jumping off point for 75% of what I read online. I hope that once Reader goes dark that I'll find something that fills the void well enough for the transition not to be too harsh. The rest of my reading is done here and in the accompanying comment threads, of course, and also NeoGAF, a video game forum that (I only realized this week) I've been frequenting for well over a decade.

fcorr 13y ago
I switched to Feedly from Google Reader, and have more or less adjusted to it. Its main problem is that it demands you use their browser extension, which makes it far less convenient than Google Reader.
- lunchladydoris 13y ago
  Is the extension at least stable? I seem to have terrible luck with extensions and also seem to run into memory leaks or other issues so I tend to avoid them lately.

mcintyre1994 13y ago

A few people have mentioned Reddits, and some of them really are great. For those who use RSS, you can subscribe to your front page. https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/ https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/ Similarly, if you want a feed of some specific subreddits, you can use something like reddit.com/r/programming+entrepeneur/.rss

SeanDav 13y ago

I get as much value from the comments as the stories themselves so: - HN (still the king for quality of comments as well as generally interesting links) - Reddit (some sub-reddits are very interesting, especially domain specific ones) - Stackoverflow sites (some great info here, but their rather draconian rules on questions that require opinions can cause frustrations as many answers do require some sort of opinion. It is quite amazing how often I get value from questions that have been closed as not constructive.) - BoingBoing.net (used to be a regular but has become too weird for my tastes)

fcorr 13y ago

For news I like bbc.co.uk/news and france24.com I have quite a few rss feeds that I read in the morning Webcomics : gunshowcomic.com dilbert.com smbc-comics.com nedroid.com whompcomic.com http://invisiblebread.com/ http://invisiblebread.com/ http://lawandthemultiverse.com/ http://lawandthemultiverse.com/ is an interesting blog giving a legal perspective on comics and science-fiction. Some web/design blogs : http://speckyboy.com http://speckyboy.com http://smashingmagazine.com http://smashingmagazine.com http://css-tricks.com http://css-tricks.com Hardware : http://anandtech.com http://anandtech.com http://bit-tech.net http://bit-tech.net http://hardware-canucks.com http://hardware-canucks.com http://youtube.com/linustechtips http://youtube.com/linustechtips http://youtube.com/timetolivecustoms http://youtube.com/timetolivecustoms http://toolsandtoys.net http://toolsandtoys.net

delambo 13y ago

The subreddits I subscribe to: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/ http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/programming http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ http://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/ http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ Except for TIL and worldnews, this is a good mix since they all have about the same level of voting and activity.

lucb1e 13y ago
Reddit should compensate voting based on subreddit activity. I only have a few subreddits on my homepage, and for example the Bitcoin one gets entirely overruled by TIL.

KennethMyers 13y ago

* My email, where I maintain good, legitimate correspondence. * My RSS reader, where I subscribe to the blogs of friends, plus the Machine Learning Research Institute, Ben Goertzel, and Venkatesh Rao. * Reddit, where I'm split evenly between smart things and slutty things: http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism+anarchotranshumanist+Androgynoushotties+Anthropology+artificial+AskAnthropology+AskCultures+AskHistorians+Assistance+Badass_people+BiGoneMild+Bitcoin+booksuggestions+collapse+communism+confession+cooperatives+dataisbeautiful+DeadBedrooms+deCrypto+DepthHub+DMT+dyke+dykesgonemild+EDC+electronic_cigarette+emogirls+Esperanto+Existentialism+ExoLife+explainlikeimfive+Favors+FifthWorldPics+fifthworldproblems+FiftyFifty+Fitness+forhire+Forth+FriendlyAI+GirlsGoneBitcoin+girlskissing+GirlswithNeonHair+HIPSTERGURLZ+homemadexxx+incest+incorrectphilippines+intentionalcommunity+IWantOut+IWantOutJobs+jobbit+jobpostings+Jobs4Bitcoins+JournalingIsArt+linguistics+littlespace+Loans+LucidDreaming+malefashionadvice+MapPorn+MDMA+neurophilosophy+nihilism+Nomad+Nootropics+okc4okc+OkCupid+p4p+passionx+Persians+Pescetarian+Philippines+polyamory+polygonemild+PostCollapse+ProsePorn+Pyongyang+r4r+Random_Acts_of_Books+Random_Acts_Of_Pizza+resilientcommunities+resumes+ronpaul+RoomPorn+SceneGirls+Scholar+seasteading+self+sex+shorthairedhotties+singularity+Stoicism+SuicideWatch+Survival+Swingers+Tagalog+Thetruthishere+TinyTits+tldr+Waif+wikipedia http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism+anarchotranshuman... )

TeMPOraL 13y ago

HackerNews and LessWrong. I go to Reddit only when I'm looking for something particular or when I'm procrastinating heavily.

amac 13y ago

Techmeme FT Business Insider Reddit

lucb1e 13y ago
FT?
- brnstz 13y ago
  Financial Times - http://www.ft.com/ http://www.ft.com/

jt2190 13y ago

I don't have a daily reading list, as I've found that it harms my productivity. I usually let the problem I'm trying to solve drive me to reading and research. Other than having something to talk about at the water cooler, I've found that trying to "stay informed" or "keep abreast of industry trends" are just excuses for not doing real work.

choffee 13y ago
Which is why you find yourself here?
- jt2190 13y ago
  :) If you must know, I was glancing over the headlines while eating breakfast, pondering how to get a colleague to stop being so theoretical and actually try putting some of their ideas into action. (A very smart person who, as you may have guessed, reads tons of stuff everyday.) To mutilate an old saying: In theory, reading about something and doing something are the same thing. In practice, they're not. (edit: P.S. There was a time when I read everything I could get my hands on. I eventually learned that I much prefer to be effective, not smart.)
DucktourDreams 13y ago
Agreed. There IS a point of diminishing returns. I've found i save myself 5-15 minutes a day simply by ignoring all Apple-related news :) The day-to-day is simply same old same old: 10% faster CPU, 10% more pixels, big whoop. Also, while I'm here: http://hackaday.com http://hackaday.com http://diydsp.com http://diydsp.com http://pricewatch.com http://pricewatch.com http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org

prawn 13y ago

http://consumeconsume.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/ http://www.contemporist.com/ http://randomghost.tumblr.com/ Contemporist currently showing errors and occasional CloudFlare messages - load issue? It's architecture/interiors/furniture. If you like futuristic concepts, Random Ghost and its infinite scroll will eat your day. It's amazing. Consume Consume is an incredible mixture of bizarre, awesome or amusing images. A good, occasional break from the grind.

cpayne624 13y ago
Why is Consume Consume so awesome? Thx
- prawn 13y ago
  Because of our planet and everyone on it.

djbender 13y ago

Facebook and Hacker News. My friends post a lot of intriguing articles.

minopret 13y ago

Randy Pausch said in his time management lecture (a good companion to "The Last Lecture") that your criterion for office reading material should be "Will I lose my job if I don't read this?" http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/ http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/

kintamanimatt 13y ago
I don't think that's good advice and leads to some very short term thinking. Reading only the stuff that you must in order to not get fired is tantamount to doing to bare minimum. Having a sciolistic knowledge about many topics is helpful when coming up with new ideas (and more importantly, knowing where to look when you need to do a deep dive), as well as making you a well-rounded person.

lucb1e 13y ago

Hackernews, security.stackexchange.com, the Dutch security.nl and Google+. Also Reddit and Twitter now and then (I don't follow a while lot of people, so I can read back the whole week in a matter of minutes). Once a month or so I read xkcd.com and exocomics.com, usually when I'm utterly bored or in a bad mood.

markkat 13y ago

http://hubski.com http://hubski.com http://popurls.com http://popurls.com http://www.brainpickings.org/ http://www.brainpickings.org/ http://kottke.org http://kottke.org

marban 13y ago
Thanks for the popurls plug

Thiz 13y ago

Whenever I need a break from tech: http://www.lewrockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com

Thiz 13y ago
Also, my reddit preferences http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/ http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/voluntarism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/voluntarism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MarketAnarchism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MarketAnarchism/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/ http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/ http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/

rolandal 13y ago

I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned http://www.launch.co http://www.launch.co - @jason's news ticker. Switching to just that has been the most productive thing for my time, and still feel comfortable I'm not missing any relevant news.

xriddle 13y ago

http://techdiem.com/ http://techdiem.com/

bettyx1138 13y ago

jezebel.com

mikeleeorg 13y ago

For business, marketing, and growth-related topics, I use http://quibb.com http://quibb.com

armenarmen 13y ago

lots of Heinlein and Azimov

hncracker 13y ago

Finnbay - www.finnbay.com

kjhosein 13y ago

Well since the question asked for one website, I'd say Google News. It gets me quickly caught up with what's what in the world. OTOH, for a longer read with topics I'm interested in, I hit Zite on my iPad or on my Android phone. I've got Zite configured with my favorite subjects, and now I'm fairly comfortable that I'm hitting 80-90% of the most interesting articles/goings-on without having to hit dozens of feeds or sites.

sheppards 13y ago

slashdot.org