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Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?

#31

I 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.

Great suggestion. I’ll add that.

Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?

#32

I read the entire Internet at once using https://sumi.news

Nice work, Alex! Really like the simple design, but do I need to directly pay to sign up and check how it works or is there a trial?

If you’re not satisfied I offer a full refund, no questions asked.

What you see is what you get. If you go to the sources page, adding or reordering sources is disabled - which is unlocked if you pay for an account.

Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?

#35

Subscribe 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.

What are some sites you use for this? Curious for myself to check out, I don’t mean to be mean with the question.

I haven’t seen RSS feeds being advertised like this in a long time. I think people mostly use email newsletters instead now. Email is also easy to filter into groups like that though.

Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?

#36

The 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.

Such people would be banned from nearly any platform for posting controversial or unpopular content. Snopes and politico would fact check them with a mostly false rating. Etc.

The collective masses are always a bit arrogant in their praise of existing dogma.

Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?

#38

The 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.

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” —Jonathan Swift

Re: Ask HN: What websites do you use to find cutting edge information?

#40

The 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.

Not sure these are the best examples.

Tesla did some amazing engineering but had some crank beliefs (he thought special and general relativity were nonsense and didn't believe in electrons) and if he was personally unpopular it was probably due more to his seclusion than anything else

Alan Turning was very well respected in his day and prosecuted because he was gay like many men in mid-century Britain.

Galileo antagonized his opponents and got on the wrong side of the Pope. Copernicus avoided persecution without compromising his beliefs

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2013/0219/Copernicus-an...

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