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Ask News.YC: What are your top news sources?

20 points by rokhayakebe 19y ago

news.yc, techcrunch, nyt, gigaom.....techmeme

streblo 19y ago
slashdot
- __ 19y ago
  link plz??????
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myoung8 19y ago
news.yc, the wsj, techcrunch (increasingly less so, though)
- rokhayakebe 19y ago
  wsj is nice. PBS is good as well, but i treat morea s a source of information and not breaking news. agree on techcrunch.
- marketer 19y ago
  I've been trying to stay away from TC as well. Their stories are well written, but it's a heavily biased source as many of their editors are invested in the companies they promote.
curi 19y ago
popurls, yc
henning 19y ago
programming.reddit, yc, anarchaia.org, google news
- hhm 19y ago
  I didn't know anarchaia, very interesting blog, thank you!
icky 19y ago
Real-world news: wikiepedia's "Current Events" page, google news Nerd-world news: programming.reddit, science.reddit, news.yc (though lately I've resorted to upvoting stories that are actually "Hacker News"...) Slashdot has gotten surprisingly good again in recent years (most of the dregs have gone to other sites), and the snarky tags (that users inevitably add) instantly indicate when an editor messes up or gives a crappy summary.
jonnytran 19y ago
At first I thought you were asking pg to add a page to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists that listed the sources/domains of submissions sorted by most-submitted. That would be interesting.
- jonnytran 19y ago
  I re-posted this on the feature requests page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93611 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93611 so maybe you guys should vote for it there.
uuilly 19y ago
non-tech news: economist.com realclearpolitics.com (Heavy flash-blocking required for both.)
wumi 19y ago
nyt, usatoday, wsj, reuters, local news
__ 19y ago
The Economist, BBC News, Al Jazeera.
DXL 19y ago
Tech: TechMeme, news.yc, TechCrunch US Politics: Huffington Post Various: reddit, FSJ
tarkin2 19y ago
haha - news.ycombinator.com Seriously, i've never submitted anything. I've been tempted to link to a few things from boingboing and mind hacks but never actually done so.
samwise 19y ago
fox news ........no. news.com, reddit,digg,google news, AP, yahoo news, gigaom, techcrunch and last buy not least YC
pg 19y ago
News.YC and the front page of the NYT in the line at Starbuck's. The Economist when I visit Robert Morris's house. I sometimes still check reddit.
hhm 19y ago
news.yc, google reader (mostly maths, science, and tech blogs), science.reddit & programming.reddit sometimes, and I'm liking slashdot lately.
- brent 19y ago
  have any good math blog recommendations?
  - hhm 19y ago
    These are most of those I follow... as you'll see, it's very difficult to find good material on maths and physics blogs, or at least I've had difficulties on finding it. Maths: http://www.arsmathematica.net/ http://www.arsmathematica.net/ http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/ http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ (not exactly maths but...) http://plus.maths.org/blog/ http://plus.maths.org/blog/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/ http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/ http://blog.plover.com/ http://blog.plover.com/ (sometimes) http://blog.wolfram.com/ http://blog.wolfram.com/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/ Physics: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress (very biased) http://angryphysicist.wordpress.com/ http://angryphysicist.wordpress.com/ http://scottaaronson.com/blog http://scottaaronson.com/blog http://motls.blogspot.com/ http://motls.blogspot.com/ (very biased)
davidw 19y ago
I take a look at cnn.com, corriere.it, ilsole24.com to keep up with world news. This site, programming.reddit.com for computer stuff, with a quick glance at lwn.net and slashdot. The Economist to have something to read for... those moments when the laptop wouldn't be easy to drag along. If I were in Italy or the US, I think I would consider a local paper, to read about local goings on. If I subscribed to a more international paper, I think I'd go for the Financial Times. I'm a bit of an information junkie:-/
aswanson 19y ago
I like mashable.com. Stop by reddit once in a while to get my rda of what's new with my man Ron Paul.
edw519 19y ago
news.yc, nyt, reddit, my Aunt Helen (she seems to know about everything as it happens)
mhartl 19y ago
The Economist (the absurd price for the print edition is, alas, worth it), Hacker News, Google News and Yahoo News. I sometimes check reddit when the Hacker News anti-procrastination feature locks me out. :-) N.B. There have been some recent claims here at news.YC that The Economist has been going downhill recently. This may be true, but I've been reading it for the better part of a decade and haven't noticed any decline in quality.
gensym 19y ago
The Economist, All Things Considered & Marketplace (National Public Radio programs in the US). I regularly read the NYTimes opinion pages and occasionally more of the NYTimes for background if I find I'm missing it. I listen to the New Yorker (Audible.com offers it as a for-pay podcast). I Tivo the McLaughlin group every week and occasionally even watch it when I have a hankering for talking heads. I used to read the NYTimes religiously, but I've become convinced that the idea of regular news consumption in non-varying amounts is poison b/c of the way it elevates the importance of trivial events that happen on slow news days (see any local TV newscast in the US for the extreme version of this). I think the Economist is somewhat immune to this effect because of its international focus. NPR survives this effect pretty well because it has enough arts/humanities-oriented material to round out slow news days.
Bluem00 19y ago
I suggest monitoring Arts and Letters Daily http://aldaily.com http://aldaily.com to get the best bang for your buck (where the currency you're spending here is time). Every day the site lists three of the best articles covering subjects of import from anywhere on the web. Often the articles have a theme, and cover an issue from multiple angles.
bayareaguy 19y ago
For my kind of "news", I like - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org http://lambda-the-ultimate.org - http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers - http://www.freshnews.org http://www.freshnews.org
danw 19y ago
Mainly people I follow on tumblr and twitter. I've found that checking news sites and RSS only once a week makes me far more productive and I don't miss out on much
cellis 19y ago
nickb
Kaizyn 19y ago
news.bbc.co.uk (the UK edition as they cover things a bit differently than for their international edition) http://news.myway.com/ http://news.myway.com/ - a number of the standard news sources through a fairly clean interface.
brent 19y ago
nyt, economist, the daily show
chaostheory 19y ago
http://web20.originalsignal.com/ http://web20.originalsignal.com/ -aggregates everything like a newspaper
superjared 19y ago
bbc news, the guardian
ALee 19y ago
I read Wired and the Economist (taking the laptop into the bathroom is just too much). News.YC is generally the best filter for relevant news.
auferstehung 19y ago
NPR: you can't beat radio for multitasking. CSPAN: I like my political news relatively unfiltered. Hacker News: this is anthropormorphic. if not true, this comment wouldn't exist. Slashdot: consistent quality. the response of /. on 9/11 made a lasting impression on me. Google News: general overview.
paulsb 19y ago
In no particular order: Slashdot, BBC, Gizmodo, New Scientist, Bilogy News Net, Eureka Alert, YC News (of course), TechCrunch (US and UK), Techgain, How To Change The World, VentureBeat, Get Venture, FoundRead.
wyclif 19y ago
Daily Mashup: http://dailymashup.com/ http://dailymashup.com/ NewsMap: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Fountainhead 19y ago
I'm surprised more people don't listen to NPR. NPR is my main news source I compliment that with the economist, news.yc, and reddit, though less so lately. Frontline from pbs whenever they have a new one out. Podcasts: Highlights from PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on the media apm: marketplace NPR: it's all politics talk of the nation science friday

20 points by rokhayakebe 19y ago

news.yc, techcrunch, nyt, gigaom.....techmeme

streblo 19y ago

slashdot

__ 19y ago
link plz??????
- deleted 19y ago
  [deleted]

myoung8 19y ago

news.yc, the wsj, techcrunch (increasingly less so, though)

rokhayakebe 19y ago
wsj is nice. PBS is good as well, but i treat morea s a source of information and not breaking news. agree on techcrunch.
marketer 19y ago
I've been trying to stay away from TC as well. Their stories are well written, but it's a heavily biased source as many of their editors are invested in the companies they promote.

curi 19y ago

popurls, yc

henning 19y ago

programming.reddit, yc, anarchaia.org, google news

hhm 19y ago
I didn't know anarchaia, very interesting blog, thank you!

icky 19y ago

Real-world news: wikiepedia's "Current Events" page, google news Nerd-world news: programming.reddit, science.reddit, news.yc (though lately I've resorted to upvoting stories that are actually "Hacker News"...) Slashdot has gotten surprisingly good again in recent years (most of the dregs have gone to other sites), and the snarky tags (that users inevitably add) instantly indicate when an editor messes up or gives a crappy summary.

jonnytran 19y ago

At first I thought you were asking pg to add a page to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists that listed the sources/domains of submissions sorted by most-submitted. That would be interesting.

jonnytran 19y ago
I re-posted this on the feature requests page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93611 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93611 so maybe you guys should vote for it there.

uuilly 19y ago

non-tech news: economist.com realclearpolitics.com (Heavy flash-blocking required for both.)

wumi 19y ago

nyt, usatoday, wsj, reuters, local news

__ 19y ago

The Economist, BBC News, Al Jazeera.

DXL 19y ago

Tech: TechMeme, news.yc, TechCrunch US Politics: Huffington Post Various: reddit, FSJ

tarkin2 19y ago

haha - news.ycombinator.com Seriously, i've never submitted anything. I've been tempted to link to a few things from boingboing and mind hacks but never actually done so.

samwise 19y ago

fox news ........no. news.com, reddit,digg,google news, AP, yahoo news, gigaom, techcrunch and last buy not least YC

pg 19y ago

News.YC and the front page of the NYT in the line at Starbuck's. The Economist when I visit Robert Morris's house. I sometimes still check reddit.

hhm 19y ago

news.yc, google reader (mostly maths, science, and tech blogs), science.reddit & programming.reddit sometimes, and I'm liking slashdot lately.

brent 19y ago
have any good math blog recommendations?
- hhm 19y ago
  These are most of those I follow... as you'll see, it's very difficult to find good material on maths and physics blogs, or at least I've had difficulties on finding it. Maths: http://www.arsmathematica.net/ http://www.arsmathematica.net/ http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/ http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ (not exactly maths but...) http://plus.maths.org/blog/ http://plus.maths.org/blog/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/ http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/ http://blog.plover.com/ http://blog.plover.com/ (sometimes) http://blog.wolfram.com/ http://blog.wolfram.com/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/ http://gowers.wordpress.com/ Physics: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress (very biased) http://angryphysicist.wordpress.com/ http://angryphysicist.wordpress.com/ http://scottaaronson.com/blog http://scottaaronson.com/blog http://motls.blogspot.com/ http://motls.blogspot.com/ (very biased)

davidw 19y ago

I take a look at cnn.com, corriere.it, ilsole24.com to keep up with world news. This site, programming.reddit.com for computer stuff, with a quick glance at lwn.net and slashdot. The Economist to have something to read for... those moments when the laptop wouldn't be easy to drag along. If I were in Italy or the US, I think I would consider a local paper, to read about local goings on. If I subscribed to a more international paper, I think I'd go for the Financial Times. I'm a bit of an information junkie:-/

aswanson 19y ago

I like mashable.com. Stop by reddit once in a while to get my rda of what's new with my man Ron Paul.

edw519 19y ago

news.yc, nyt, reddit, my Aunt Helen (she seems to know about everything as it happens)

mhartl 19y ago

The Economist (the absurd price for the print edition is, alas, worth it), Hacker News, Google News and Yahoo News. I sometimes check reddit when the Hacker News anti-procrastination feature locks me out. :-) N.B. There have been some recent claims here at news.YC that The Economist has been going downhill recently. This may be true, but I've been reading it for the better part of a decade and haven't noticed any decline in quality.

gensym 19y ago

The Economist, All Things Considered & Marketplace (National Public Radio programs in the US). I regularly read the NYTimes opinion pages and occasionally more of the NYTimes for background if I find I'm missing it. I listen to the New Yorker (Audible.com offers it as a for-pay podcast). I Tivo the McLaughlin group every week and occasionally even watch it when I have a hankering for talking heads. I used to read the NYTimes religiously, but I've become convinced that the idea of regular news consumption in non-varying amounts is poison b/c of the way it elevates the importance of trivial events that happen on slow news days (see any local TV newscast in the US for the extreme version of this). I think the Economist is somewhat immune to this effect because of its international focus. NPR survives this effect pretty well because it has enough arts/humanities-oriented material to round out slow news days.

Bluem00 19y ago

I suggest monitoring Arts and Letters Daily http://aldaily.com http://aldaily.com to get the best bang for your buck (where the currency you're spending here is time). Every day the site lists three of the best articles covering subjects of import from anywhere on the web. Often the articles have a theme, and cover an issue from multiple angles.

bayareaguy 19y ago

For my kind of "news", I like - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org http://lambda-the-ultimate.org - http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers - http://www.freshnews.org http://www.freshnews.org

danw 19y ago

Mainly people I follow on tumblr and twitter. I've found that checking news sites and RSS only once a week makes me far more productive and I don't miss out on much

cellis 19y ago

nickb

Kaizyn 19y ago

news.bbc.co.uk (the UK edition as they cover things a bit differently than for their international edition) http://news.myway.com/ http://news.myway.com/ - a number of the standard news sources through a fairly clean interface.

brent 19y ago

nyt, economist, the daily show

chaostheory 19y ago

http://web20.originalsignal.com/ http://web20.originalsignal.com/ -aggregates everything like a newspaper

superjared 19y ago

bbc news, the guardian

ALee 19y ago

I read Wired and the Economist (taking the laptop into the bathroom is just too much). News.YC is generally the best filter for relevant news.

auferstehung 19y ago

NPR: you can't beat radio for multitasking. CSPAN: I like my political news relatively unfiltered. Hacker News: this is anthropormorphic. if not true, this comment wouldn't exist. Slashdot: consistent quality. the response of /. on 9/11 made a lasting impression on me. Google News: general overview.

paulsb 19y ago

In no particular order: Slashdot, BBC, Gizmodo, New Scientist, Bilogy News Net, Eureka Alert, YC News (of course), TechCrunch (US and UK), Techgain, How To Change The World, VentureBeat, Get Venture, FoundRead.

wyclif 19y ago

Daily Mashup: http://dailymashup.com/ http://dailymashup.com/ NewsMap: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

Fountainhead 19y ago

I'm surprised more people don't listen to NPR. NPR is my main news source I compliment that with the economist, news.yc, and reddit, though less so lately. Frontline from pbs whenever they have a new one out. Podcasts: Highlights from PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on the media apm: marketplace NPR: it's all politics talk of the nation science friday