I actually found Hacker News through https://brutalist.report/ . Nice conglomeration of headlines/links from lots of different sources. Lots of tech and science, but also a good mix of global news.
For casual browsing and deeper reads I find myself going here:
https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://restofworld.org/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://pudding.cool/ https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire
I built my own RSS feed reader web app. The difference is that it proxies the HTML of the article page, transforms it (e.g. removes advertising, adds custom styling/scripts) so that I can view the original article but with modifications to the website. I have other features like headline filters and the ability to load non-feed pages like the NYTimes home page as a feed item.
The feeds themselves are mostly random subreddits, Hypebeast, some NYTimes sections, etc.
It works a lot better than manually going to each website and browsing around looking for new content.
The only other news I consume is via AllSides: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
They take a headline and present an article from different 3 news sources. The 3 sources will include left leaning, right leaning and more neutral new organizations so you get a perspective from all sides.
https://www.newsminimalist.com/
This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news
Marginalrevolution is a good blog, covering current affairs, economics, finance and technology issues. One of the posters, Tyler Cowen, is great at aggregating and summarising information and it’s a combination of links and quite short thought pieces that get posted daily.
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
FWIW, like many others here I rolled my own RSS reader; but mostly to REMOVE features, not to add them.
Namely, I think one of the worst "features" in RSS readers is "tracking whether or not you've read every single little thing with numbers," so I wrote mine to just leave all that out and give me the top 20 or so of the day. If I miss anything, SO WHAT.
Run by the tireless Tara Calishain. Covers the world of search engines, archives, social media, online information collections, and other interesting stuff. She's been running the site 1998. Not many sites like this around much these days.
I don't think it counts as a news feed but I do enjoy browsing the hackaday.com. It's a bit hit and miss on the content but sometimes there are quite interesting projects on there.
Specifically for Australian tech nerds, The Sizzle (https://thesizzle.com.au) is fantastic. It's the only source of tech news that has a real Aussie feel to it, and that discusses Australian tech news as well as that on a global level.
Ars Technica, I've been there since 2002 and I pay for premium most of the time.
Nothing else comes close tbh.
I probably lack some worthwhile cultural hinterland due to HN's liberal but sciencey remit. Arts & Letters Daily would be a good addition.
But there's nothing that really feels of comparable value for me personally and I've tried many of the options that are suggested here and have been before in these kinds of threads.
The Register has a good range of news articles, presented in a slightly satirical style. Avoid the comments though.
I’ve been getting my daily news recap from 1440. It keeps to the claim of unbiased summaries and is the length I’ve been looking for.
https://mosfet.net/ is quite enjoyable.
I just run a locally containerised rss feed aggregator and have my own news feed.
The best thing I ever did for my mental health is stop reading news feeds.
Embedded HW (commercial): https://www.cnx-software.com/
Electronics (diy): https://hackaday.com/blog/
bleepingcomputer.com is good.
They banned me on their forums after I said hello, so the moderation is a bit questionable. Content is good though.
For general world news&commentary I've chosen Axios and The Conversation. For the quick&dirty pulse check on tech/science trends or rumors - Futurism and Futurity.
https://www.axios.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://www.futurity.org/
http://www.digitimes.com/rss/daily.xml https://liliputing.com/feed https://linmob.net/feed.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/armdevices https://www.cnx-software.com/feed/ https://www.microled-info.com/rss.xml https://www.mondo2000.com/feed/ https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/feed https://www.madinamerica.com/feed/ https://www.cancelledscifi.com/feed/ https://semiengineering.com/feed/ Google News Alerts
I've read The Code Project Insider for at least ten years, possibly quite a few more. It is similar to HN, sometimes but not always sourcing articles from it, with a bit of a .NET focus. It's a really good way to keep up with the industry, mailed out for free daily. You can see the current edition online at https://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=1...
https://skimfeed.com has that simple brutalist interface you need in the morning.
I have created a feed aggregator at https://techblogz.onrender.com (also at http://techblogz.co, sorry, got to fix it to https). It's a collection of engineering blogs specifically from tech companies (updated daily). At some point in the past, I wanted to search for a specific technical term (like Kubernetes) across all those blogs to understand how that technology is being used at various companies. But I found it a pain to do this search since you have to search for that term in each blog one by one. So to solve the problem, I created this. It is also helpful for tech interview preparation. I would love for you guys to try it out and provide some feedback.
I made an application to read the weather for a given zip code and to read the news from VOA, NPR, and SKY: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html
To customize it for your zip code, add your zip code to the end, like this: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210
You can also make a shortcut for that personalized zip code link.
If you just want text weather, that is available too: https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210
Most surprisingly, this is an entirely static page and has no dependencies. You could download the HTML file and it would still fetch the news feeds and weather! No tracking!
I use a desktop RSS news reader that aggregates several hundreds of feeds from blogs and other interesting places (which I then filter by topic).
It actually works better than HN as you don't get distracted by all the hypes or up/down-voting drama (you can also add the HN feed).
I read the newsfeed on Pixel (or Android?) that shows up when I keep swiping right on my home screen.
Brave also has a newsfeed that's tempting to switch over to.
I used to love reading the news on Facebook, but not anymore. It's all agendas and people with axes to grind.
I’ll often check the finance-related articles on Abnormal Returns, and the non-finance Saturday links usually lead somewhere interesting.
Is there any AMA or other article where @dang or other mods discuss what it takes to keep this site/community the way it is? Wondering if it could be a template for others but curious how to sausage is made.
https://www.allsides.com for a US national news feed that's not tilted toward a particular faction.
Lobste.rs is HN but for tech only.
- https://www.phoronix.com/ - https://www.storagereview.com/ - https://www.bbc.com/ - https://www.dw.com/en/
and Twitter etc
I start every day with RSS subscriptions using NewsBlur (https://newsblur.com) and Reeder (https://reederapp.com).
I've also set up a page so other people can see my subscriptions / what I'm reading: https://sources.werd.io
/.
I built a news digest for myself after I couldn't find a good yahoo news digest alternative. It's a once a day feed of 6-10 stories. Simple and quick enough to keep myself informed.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
For a summary of news I look at https://emm.newsbrief.eu
Freshnews (https://www.freshnews.org/)
As aggregators, just Polygon (polygon.com), The Verge (theverge.com) and Microsiervos (microsiervos.com).
When I find an interesting personal website there I add it to my Telegram RSS feed notifier (@feedzbot), which notifies me twice a day with their new posts. At this point I have 50+ feeds there so the feed is pretty long.
Ashamed to say still Slashdot, have it in my RSS, old habits die hard. Otherwise various reddit subs since people are quick to post breaking news in whatever field I'm interested in. Then a bunch of newspapers/sources from around the world to try and get a balanced overview of things.
Tech news: https://www.techmeme.com/river (mostly US) Political news: https://www.memeorandum.com/river
I highly recommend the https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ podcast by Tom Merritt which usually runs 30 minutes episodes, or their 5 minute Daily Tech Headlines version.
For me, it’s Google Discover
I’m active on https://tildes.net. It’s invite only but got an influx of new users the last couple of days with the Reddit changes.
If someone wants an invite, let me know by email (see profile).
https://legiblenews.com once per day for major news headlines.
Another way of getting news is an old fashioned newspaper. Being able to leaf through it lets you see headlines and quickly scan an article to see if it's interesting compared to clicking around on the web. I actually find it a fairly nice way to see lots of different things.
There are many things in the newspaper that are interesting to read that I likely wouldn't have clicked on if I saw the title in some news feed.
https://hardwary.com/ for hardware news
Not much that can compete with HN. Dev.to
All news is toxic. I don't read it.
Everyday, the Financial Times blog, called FT AlphaVille, has an article called "FTAV’s further reading". Sample: https://www.ft.com/content/26e8d3a3-34e7-43b2-9927-829047027...
It is an excellent jumping off point!
HN should really have automated threads like this once every year or so.
I have an RSS Feed reader where I randomly subscribe to blogs which I find here or on other places.
Here's an incomplete list of the pages which I check on a daily basis.
Tech:
https://lobste.rs/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://inside.java/
Art: https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/
News: https://www.spiegel.de/ (mainly, but others too!)
I feel like there's a humblebrag bias in these responses.
Possibly not what you're asking since it's nothing like HN, but the other two sites I constantly check for news are theguardian.com and spiegel.de (because I'm German).
Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama or similar in the main stream news before it shows up on HN - usually stories I end up finding in both turn up on HN first.
That's all I read - no social media or anything, too much noise, costs too much time. I'm just trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my country, the world and my field. Used to read Slashdot and others for the latter, but lately I noticed HN has pretty much everything I find relevant (and the odd delightful oddity, my favourites).
I've been reading https://www.metafilter.com/ for more cultural things, though the site changed quite a bit over the twenty years of its existence.
oilprice.com - apparently a news source becomes surprisingly useful when it's not trying to hide its biases.
Mostly https://lobste.rs/ .
The rest are RSS feeds of blogs and other sources picked by myself.
Twitter, emails, text messages
Techmeme.com
And remember slashdot.com?
I read the daily Links post of https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
It's mainly focused on economics and geopolitics, from a leftist perspective.
peakoilbarrel.com
does weather count as news feed?
git.news
artsjournal.com
techmeme.com
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www.foxnews.com
Global:
- https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day)
Local:
- https://publicola.com (20/month)
- https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month)
- https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month)
- https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month)
- https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month)
- https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month)
- https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day)
Tech:
- https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week)
- https://this-week-in-rust.org (1/week)
- https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix (1/week)
- https://discourse.nixos.org/top (5/day)
Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day).