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Quick question for those who maintain that this story should not be on Hacker News: where else can a person get timely notification of extremely notable events
by sielskr 17y ago
Quick question for those who maintain that this story should not be on Hacker News: where else can a person get timely notification of extremely notable events without being barraged with lots of noise? Don't say BBC Dot Co Dot UK or Wikinews or Wikipedia Current Events. I tried those -- way too much noise.
- lucumo 17y agoExtremely notable events will pop-up everywhere. Before I saw it here, I had heard it on two IRC channels, saw it on a few news sites and I did a Google News search for it (which didn't add anything at all, because all those news things said nothing other than "MJ rushed to hospital" and after that "MJ died"). If HN is your only source of world news, I suggest you find at least one more. There are many things that don't pop up hear, that probably are relevant to you.
- sielskr 17y agoIf HN is your only source of world news, I suggest you find at least one more Google News and the news sites I have tried have way too much information. I want the top 10 or so current-events general-interest stories of the year: more than that would be just noise. If you know of a news source like that besides Hacker News, I would be most grateful if you told me.