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Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?

21 points| bonhasgone | 4 years ago | reply

Is there a good way to aggregate news from sources you like?

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[+] darebak|4 years ago|reply
I outsourced my news consumption to coworkers, friends and family. After being a news enthusiast this change is more than welcome because I found that 99.9% doesn't offer actionable information and that .1% you find out anyway.
[+] galfarragem|4 years ago|reply
My pet project may be interesting to you: https://www.slowernews.com

It tries to filter the 99,9% and keep the 0,01% that we all fear missing out. Making sense of chaos is a sisyphean task but I see it as a way of using my procrastination positively.

[+] castaway3000|4 years ago|reply
NHK newsline, live news on the hour (in English)

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/

They also have some interesting programming every now and then.

I discovered it when traveling in Asia, and just kind of kept watching it regularly. It's not necessarily an aggregator but it is global news with more of a focus on Asia.

[+] tomjen3|4 years ago|reply
The local radio news. It takes 3 minutes or so a day and is followed by the weather, which ends up mattering a lot more than most news do for me.

I don't want to aggregate news, because that would just give me ten wrong perspectives on a subject I don't care about and/or upset me for no reason.

Really I just want to know that nothing terrible and relevant has happened, so my ideal news source would just be empty 99.99% of the time.

[+] vanc_cefepime|4 years ago|reply
Allsides.com. I get to see different perspectives from right/center/left on the same or similar topics. I think this is US only news however.
[+] annexrichmond|4 years ago|reply
How does Allsides.com handle topics that is only covered by one segment of the political spectrum? To me this is where much of the bias lies.
[+] jesterson|4 years ago|reply
Zerohedge. Very good in-depth coverage of financial matters, as well as political ones.
[+] alexmingoia|4 years ago|reply
I read news with https://sumi.news - it aggregates everything on page grouped by source. I also have the source customized with RSS feeds, newsletters, and Twitter.
[+] mikewarot|4 years ago|reply
Politics: Breaking Points - Krystal Ball (liberal) and Saagar Enjeti (conservative) decided to make a show that cuts through ALL of the partisan crap, and focuses on the important stuff.

Stuff about war, politics, etc... - Beau of the Fifth Column, the man knows his shit, and has seen a lot of stuff around the world, and calls it like he sees it.

General news - Phil Defranco

I don't trust anyone who helped lie us into Iraq, so most of the media is out for me.

I've got lots of others, here's my list of youtube channels I subscribe to - https://www.youtube.com/user/ka9dgx/channels

[+] AiFoGhost|4 years ago|reply
flipside (https://www.theflipside.io/) is a great daily newsletter that covers one topic per day from a variety of sources across the political spectrum. I've been a happy subscriber for a few years.
[+] morceauxdebois|4 years ago|reply
I've been reading The Economist for free for years by disabling Javascript.