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Ask HN: What are your daily must-read sites?

70 points| mitgux | 13 years ago | reply

As Hacker/Developer or designer interest, beside HN of course ;)

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[+] incision|13 years ago|reply
I don't have particular must-read sites so much as collection of sites with potentially interesting material set up in Pulse which I scan through twice a day or so.

I end up reading stuff from HN [1], The Verge [2], Wired[3], A VC[4], VentureBeat[5], AllThingsD[6], Technology Review [7] and Ars Technica [8] most often.

They aren't strictly digital related, but I get a lot out of Archinect [9] and core77 [10] for design interest.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/newest, 2: http://www.theverge.com/, 3: http://www.wired.com/, 4: http://www.avc.com/, 5: http://venturebeat.com/, 6: http://allthingsd.com/, 7: http://www.technologyreview.com/, 8: http://arstechnica.com/, 9: http://archinect.com/, 10: http://core77.com/

[+] faramarz|13 years ago|reply
http://www.contemporist.com Daily routine because of my obsession with architecture, home design and styles.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/ Hours and Hours of video on how things are built, by hand. I'm utterly fascinated by the craft of building tangible objects with your hands.

http://wireframes.linowski.ca A legend in the Interaction Design field

http://sidebar.io/ ..and most recently, I enjoy getting my design related digest from Sacha Greif & Co.

[+] sgdesign|13 years ago|reply
Thanks for mentioning Sidebar!

By the way, the HN crowd might be interested to know Sidebar is built with Meteor (on top of Telescope actually: http://telesc.pe).

[+] petercooper|13 years ago|reply
Reddit, for starters. There are a lot of great sub-Reddits you can subscribe to and you can remove a lot of the pointless default ones (/r/atheism, /r/politics, /r/aww, etc.) so you end up with a feed that really suits you.

http://inbound.org/ is basically HN for people also interested in online marketing, SEO, etc - lots of great practical stuff ends up on there that never makes HN.

[+] dmgrow|13 years ago|reply
Thanks for mentioning inbound -- hadn't seen that one before and looks good for SEO/marketing/etc.

Are there other similar HN-type sites that are business-oriented?

[+] nathanpc|13 years ago|reply
I come to Hacker News just for the opinion articles that people post. I also love to read The Verge.
[+] draq|13 years ago|reply
The Economist
[+] gtani|13 years ago|reply
If i'm researching something:

HNsearch.com, Topsy.com, pinboard.com, stackoverflow.com, getprismatic.com, subreddits for specific topics.

Sometimes, delicious.com, which i used to go every day.

subject matter specialists on twitter,

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If i'm not researching something:

I open chrome and firefox pages to manage extensiosn/addons and those are the only pages i let myself open (my version of no-procrast)

[+] morjanoff|13 years ago|reply
I use Flipboard to aggregate the best stories from several sources. They have a heap of design feeds already listed as well as business, tech and HN in there too. Best part is its easy to flick quickly through headlines, share what you want and also save to instapaper for later.
[+] yogrish|13 years ago|reply
1. Quora - To participate in discussions and learn new things 2. http://zenhabits.net - Minimalism and Better habits 3. Reddit/r/Science 4. Techcrunch, GigaOm, Engadget - Tech Trends 5. Fubiz.net - For daily dose of inspirations
[+] Zaheer|13 years ago|reply
I used to keep up with tens of blogs and sites via RSS, as I got busier it became obvious I couldn't possibly keep up with all of them. Now HN & NYTimes is the only place I visit and occasionally Lifehacker. HN filters out most of what I don't care about.
[+] dccoolgai|13 years ago|reply
O'reilly radar - 4 daily links is what I read when I don't even have time for HN. If it's one of the things I really care about, it usually ends up on there. http://radar.oreilly.com/
[+] tedyoung|13 years ago|reply
I use Prismatic (http://getprismatic.com) which gives me more than enough to read on a daily basis. I also use Zite on my iPad (because Prismatic doesn't have an iPad app -- yet?).