Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

[BenoitP]

http://www.datatau.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/automaton

http://highscalability.com/

A selection of subreddits, among which: r/apachespark/, r/java/, r/programming/, r/InternetIsBeautiful/, r/dataisbeautiful/, r/MachineLearning/

I'd like to follow a bunch of people on twitter, on the subjects they are experts in; but find the signal to noise ratio is not high enough.

Also, I stalk a few people on various forums because I really like their way of thinking or expertise. If you say something clever, I'm going to go through your post history.

On top of that, some youtube channels, and about 400 blogs of individuals. Best ones: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks, http://colah.github.io/, https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/, http://acko.net/, http://karpathy.github.io/.

[tedsanders]

There's so much good content out on the internet, and sadly, we are wildly ignorant of almost all of it. Discovery is still such a hard problem. Here's a list of the blogs, podcasts, and websites that I read.

Links available at http://www.tedsanders.com/my-information-diet/

Blogs

Economics blogs:

•Marginal Revolution, The Money Illusion, The Incidental Economist, The Growth Economics Blog, Conversable Economist, Overcoming Bias, Vox: Matthew Yglesias, Peter Diamandis, EconLog: Library Of Economics And Liberty

Physics/math blogs:

•Condensed concepts, Shtetl-Optimized, Sean Carroll’s Preposterous Universe, Prosperous Physicist, nanoscale views, Do the Math, Strong Correlations

Statistics blogs:

•Andrew Gelman’s Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, sometimes i’m wrong, Measure of Doubt (dead)

Other blogs:

•Slate Star Codex, Vox: Ezra Klein, The GiveWell Blog, Ramez Naam, Conor Friedersdorf, Andart II, Andrew McAfee’s Blog—The Business Impact of IT, Ben Casnocha, Gwern, How To Write Badly Well (dead), Lithoguru, Mike Bostock, DIYPS, Study Hacks Blog, The Rationalist Conspiracy, what if?, Sibylla Bostoniensis

Comics:

•xkcd, Existential Comics

Other websites:

•HN, Ars Technica, Chessbase, Vox, Reddit, YouTube

Podcasts:

•Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, Goggles Optional, Supreme Podcast, Comedy Bang Bang, EconTalk, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, Welcome to Night Vale, WTF with Marc Maron, StarTalk Radio Show with Neil Degrasse Tyson, Intelligence Squared (US), Fareed Zakaria GPS, a16z, Invisibilia, Serial

[applecore]

Books. I make sure to allocate at least twice as much time to reading literature as I do reading online.

[charlieegan3]

https://lobste.rs/ _sometimes_ gets things before HN. I also follow Product Hunt but I don't find either are as consistently high in quality has HN. Last year I made http://serializer.io/ that aggregates items linearly from all 3 (and some others) on a single page.

[Klathmon]

id love to try out lobste.rs but i cant seem to get an invite, and commenting is one of the biggest parts of these kinds of sites to me.

[ck2]

Nice job on serializer - there are now newsworthy articles on the front page that are missing from HN front page.

ps. I think you should set a max-width on the content area, I see you made it flexible probably for mobile but on larger displays the unlimited width makes your eyes move too much (meanwhile I'll fix it with stylish)

pps. free https maybe?

[thurn]

I enjoy the Audio Edition of The Economist -- I listen to it while biking to work.

[efz1005]

I go to Quora whenever they send me a Digest (every 2-4 days), and I'm all day on Twitter.

[jankins]

Yeah I'll recommend the quota email digests too. They do a great job, however those are curated. I'm not on it nearly as often as HN but it's a different category.

[13of40]

This is the most high-brow site I visit, so I'd be embarrassed to give you my list...

[brador]

My morning routine is still http://skimfeed.com

[HenryTheHorse]

Metafilter. (Hands down one of the best forums with quality conversations.)

Other than that, the usual suspects: Reddit, Vox, Quartz, WaPo, New Yorker, The Atlantic and NYT.

[spoiledtechie]

Drudgereport.com - its the best news aggregator on the web about politics hands down and I am fascinated by politics.

[yodon]

Drudge is a great aggregator but my goodness it has strong political biases. I used to pair Salon.com visits with drudge to get contrasting spins, but a year or two ago Salon went all link-baity fluff. For a while qz.com was amazing until they re-designed their home page and removed 50 IQ points from the content (ditto for fivethirtyeight.com). At this point my news sources are mainly reduced to the great-but-comically-biased drudge and the once-great-now-dumbed-down-but-still-analytically-unbiased fivethirtyeight.com

If anyone knows of a good US-moderate or left of US-center news aggregator that acts like its readers are intelligent, I'm all ears (I also like right of US-center news but I get plenty of that from drudge)

[HenryTheHorse]

Drudge's headlines are comically sensationalistic, biased and so deliberately taken out of a story's context that it's pure genius.

And that's a terrible way to get one's news.

[noer]

Twitter, the NY Times, Growth Hackers for marketing/product stuff (though the content there is pretty thin at times). If I'm bored & away from a computer I use the News App on iOS. I use newsblur as an RSS reader and I rarely update what I follow, but from there it's mostly sports blogs.

[grandalf]

A small number of quality subreddits. Sometimes quora. Private google group w college friends.

[Mayzie]

> A small number of quality subreddits.

Such as?

I'm always looking to expand my reading list, as I find that I frequently read everything and there being nothing left to consume. :-(

[ninjakeyboard]

This is pretty much my go-to source of curated media. Maybe my facebook feed for funny things.

[aram]

Same here. Since it combines most of my areas of interest, I don't need to use other sources.

If I'm not active on HN for some time, I check out Lobste.rs to keep up. They have way less members and posts, so hot news stay longer on the front page.

For funny things I go to regular Reddit front page.

[tmaly]

I have a few subreddits I like /r/programming and /r/golang

[dhimes]

This is a cool site, from the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Arts and Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/

[CM30]

Reddit. Well, certain subreddits anyway. Mostly gaming ones.

Various gaming sites, most of which aren't relevant to people here (GoNintendo, Nintendo Life, Gamnesia, etc).

Many, many different forums. Some tech related, some gaming related, some just about anything and everything. At the moment, mostly my secondary Wario Forums site, as well as The Admin Zone and a few others).

CSS Tricks.

Smashing Magazine (and a few other web development news sites like Sitepoint and A List Apart).

So quite a few things really.

[ashwinb10]

Twitter

also, would highly recommend this: https://www.launchticker.com/

[globalgoat]

Private Eye (subscriber to the print version), The Guardian (online, although am losing interest as it's becoming increasingly click bait as it tries to stop its massive financial losses, for many years I was a print subscriber), The Register (online), books (kindle and print)

[ljoshua]

Side question: does anyone know of a browser extension or anything that would hide/gray out HN headlines that I've already seen on previous visits so I know only what stories are actually new on the front page? Would make scanning quicker.

[bazzargh]

I assume you mean seen but not visited, since as the other reply says, the browser tracks :visited for you.

I have a more aggressive greasemonkey script that hides lots of non-technical links on HN

    var links = document.links;

    var boring = [ "adage.com", "arstechnica", "bbc", "discovermagazine", "bloomberg", 
               "bloombergview", "buzzfeed", "businessinsider", 
              "californiasunday","cnn","csmonitor","dailymail",
              "digg", "economist","esquire", "fastcompany",
              "forbes", "ft.com", "fortune", "fusion", "geekwire",
              "gizmodo", "harvard.edu", "huffingtonpost", "inc.com",
              "longreads", "medium", "mondaynote",
              "nature", "nautil.us", "newscientist", "newstatesman",
              "newyorker", "npr.org", "nybooks", "nymag", "nytimes", "pando",
              "psychologytoday", "qz.com", "reddit", "reuters", "sciencedaily",
              "scientificamerican", "slate", "techcrunch", "telegraph",
              "theatlantic", "theguardian", "thenation","theparisreview",
              "theverge", "theregister", "time", "usatoday", "vancouversun",
              "vice", "vimeo",
              "vogue", "washingtonpost", "wired", "wsj", "yahoo",
              "youtube", "zdnet" ];
     matcher = new RegExp("\\b("+(boring.join("|").replace(/\./g,"\\."))+")\\b");
     for (i=0; i<links.length; i++) {
       hostname = links[i].hostname.replace(/^www\./,"");
       if (hostname.match(matcher)) {
         links[i].style.setProperty("display", "none");
  
         links[i].parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode("[removed]"), links[i]);

      }
    }

Just to be clear, I read a lot of those sites - I'm just not interested in seeing them on HN, where I'm looking for technical news.

Anyway, you could adapt this by parsing the age field and making judgements based on how old the article is and your time of day (ie you'll have seen a 6 hour old article at the end of the day, but at the start of the day, it first appeared overnight)

[r3bl]

Accessing HN with Firefox (if your web history is turned on) does exactly that[1]. No extension is necessary. The same is true for every other browser since the CSS file it clearly says:

    a:link    { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; }
    a:visited { color:#828282; text-decoration:none; }

[1] http://i.imgur.com/CqKW1yK.png

[bmh_ca]

Slashdot – headlines, anyway.