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

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Post by willcipriano »

starwind wrote: post #40
willcipriano wrote: post #27

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 antago…

That's my point, people who change the world are going to be eccentric. Ideas that are ahead of their time will seem really weird, you need weird people to create and champion weird ideas. Not all of them will be good mind you, but to have a chance of being on the cutting edge you sort of also have to position yourself on the periphery of society.

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

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Post by starwind »

willcipriano wrote: post #41
starwind wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 antago…

That's my point, people who change the world are going to be eccentric. Ideas that are ahead of their time will seem really weird, you need weird people to create and champion weird ideas. Not all of them will be good mind you, but to have a chance of being on the cutting edge you sort of also have to position yourself on the periphery of society.

I don't buy that. Sure there's plenty of eccentric geniuses but I don't think you have to be on the periphery. Albert Einstein, Claude Shannon, and Edwin Hubble were all fairly popular, friendly people in their day

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

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Post by willcipriano »

starwind wrote: post #42
willcipriano wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's my point, people who change the world are going to be eccentric. Ideas that are ahead of their time will seem really weird, you need weird people to create and champion weird ideas. Not all of them will be good mind you, but to have a chance of being on the cutting edge you sort of also have to position yourself on the periphery of society.

I don't buy that. Sure there's plenty of eccentric geniuses but I don't think you have to be on the periphery. Albert Einstein, Claude Shannon, and Edwin Hubble were all fairly popular, friendly people in their day

Now you may have a bad example, here is a except of letter from Albert Einstein to his wife where he outlined the conditions for their relationship:

"B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, You will forego:

1. my sitting at home with you;

2. my going out or travelling with you.

C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:

1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;

2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;

3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it."

Further:

"Einstein prized his solitude greatly. Another remark shows his difficulty with personal relationships. While he eventually fell in love with his cousin Elsa and finally divorced Mavic to marry her in 1919, that marriage too was troubled. Elsa died in 1936 soon after the couple moved to the U.S. Not long after her death, Einstein would write, “I have gotten used extremely well to life here. I live like a bear in my den…. This bearishness has been further enhanced by the death of my woman comrade, who was better with other people than I am.”[0]

I don't argue that their aren't exceptions, but I believe my point is true in the general sense.

[0]https://www.openculture.com/2013/12/albert-einstein-imposes-...

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

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Post by alexmingoia »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #44
alexmingoia wrote: post #18

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

Very similar to skimfeed. Have you considered integrating with archive.is?

Yes, very similar to skimfeed. However with sumi.news you can add custom RSS feeds and newsletters.

I’m not sure what you mean by integrating with archive.is?

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

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Post by zeepzeep »

dynamohk wrote: post #7
zeepzeep wrote: post #5

For security stuff it's 100% twitter

Any specific accounts to follow?

Really depends on what you do, I mostly follow some researchers and bug bounty hunters. Portswigger and related people are a good starting point, terjanq is crazy, people around mario heiderich are insane. I mostly look through replies and everyone that interacts with the ones I know might get a follow.

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

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Post by alexmingoia »

tomcam wrote: post #48
alexmingoia wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good suggestion, I’ll add that.

Thanks a ton! Ripping good site!

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