In all my wishes that it weren't so, the best answer is Twitter. A lot of academics, practitioners, politicans, journalists are there. If you want to read something in depth, Twitter I find is also best to find sources there.
Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?
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Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?
#22Subscribe to the RSS feeds of interesting sites. You'll be able to read every new from several fields in one place together.
In your RSS client you could tag your RSS subscriptions and create feeds like "Technology", " Politics", "Philosophy", etc.
Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?
#23Slack, Twitter, Mastodon. Reddit, to some extent. Mailing lists for various open source projects. And HN of course
Out of curiosity, who and what on Slack, Twitter and Mastodon?
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#24Twitter following informative accounts
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#25My information is not so cutting edge, I'd say my most up-to-date information comes from HN.. Some times it's days ahead of mainstream media.
Same, although I learned about Bitcoin here before it had any value, and most recently, I heard about Wordle before there were news articles. I imagine HN is what kickstarted Wordle's popularity.
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#26I read the entire Internet at once using https://sumi.news
I hate to nitpick but when you click the button "yesterday", It seems like there's no other way to get back to the "Latest" news without clicking the icon in the header. I think having a permanent "Latest" button when navigating to previous days would be more intuitive.
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#27The people doing the real cutting edge stuff have historically been ostracized and unpopular for one reason or another (Tesla, Alan Turing, Galileo). Once it's within the zeitgeist of the influencers it's already old news. Talk to the people who are clearly smart but not being listened to.
Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?
#28If you really want the cutting edge, I think it's probably academic conferences in the area you're interested in.
But I don't think most people really do, because that's far too much noise to parse. Most people probably want it to have passed the bullshit test (so many academic papers make fake claims now), been tested, and been wrapped up and demonstrated in a neat Python library or similar. Somewhere like this is probably the best place for that.
Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?
#29Slack, Twitter, Mastodon. Reddit, to some extent. Mailing lists for various open source projects. And HN of course
Out of curiosity, who and what on Slack, Twitter and Mastodon?
The Slack instance I use the most is a private one. The other is a Swedish one for programmers.
My accounts on Twitter and Mastodon are public though! See my profile for links, and feel free to reach out if you also have Twitter/Mastodon :)
I also have some curated lists on Twitter: https://twitter.com/giffengrabber/lists (that was on my old account so unfortunately I can no longer update those lists)
Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?
#30I read the entire Internet at once using https://sumi.news
Interesting! The sparse, Craigslist-esque text-heavy design is refreshing.