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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?

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Post by BOOSTERHIDROGEN » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC

si-fi wrote: post #9

I curate Bluesky lists of accounts that I have found useful over the years, and read the list feeds. It's reasonably efficient if you prune the list regularly and only add trusted sources. I started making (but never quite finished!) a news aggregator app that would run once a day, the idea being I could catch up with the previous 24 hours' news over breakfast/coffee, much like the old days of reading the daily paper…

Indeed

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?

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Post by shant_extry » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC

Over the last ~2 years I cultivated a small list of newsletters. First I'd just find several regarding a particular niche and sign up to them - auto-sorting into a particular email folder for each topic. Then I'd filter them by seeing how many seem too generic (i.e. not at the level of depth I'm interested in, or by their format (content within the newsletter or linking out of it - though both are useful), and so on. Now I receive ~9 per day M-F with little repetition between them and I find it more than sufficient.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?

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Post by nickdodd » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 8:17 AM UTC

This may be the worst take, but is one of my main sources of news. I'll follow a ton of people and businesses/brands in a specific niche or sector and so my following feed will usually have the freshest news when I open it. Search page is pretty good too once it knows your preferences. I do things the old fashioned way; reading with my own eyes and scrolling to find what matters.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?

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Post by NishanStepak » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

Your better off using a news aggregator. newsnow.com is excellent at aggregating news. There are other news aggregators as well. Another trick is to set a major search engine in their news section to 24 hour search like Google News and then perform the search daily in the morning. A combination of Google News and Bing News will get a lot of the latest news with Newsnow. This will cover a lot of material. It will be more up to date than most LLMs with this pattern.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?

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Post by treetalker » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

Instead of "keeping up with the news", consider using your brainpower + LLMs to distinguish signal and noise in the sectors that interest you, and then accordingly wiring up identification of sources, searches, and reading to update yourself only as frequently as necessary.