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Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by mick_schroeder »

Web Shuffle - sends user to random news websites from an AI curated list of sources. Its like the old StumbleUpon but aimed at popular / news websites.

https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/

I create a bookmark directly to the redirect page which lets me shuffle to random websites right from my bookmark toolbar. I click that a few times to sort of "channel surf" the web.

https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/redirect

There is also a Digital Newsstand with live screenshots of all the sources. I can scroll through that to get the headlines.

https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/newsstand/

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by Delphiza »

000ooo000 wrote: post #47
caterama wrote: post #3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Have been using this portal for a year or two and what surprises me is the number of fatalities in bus accidents in India and the like. Some weeks it seems like 50-odd people die a day in a bus accident in that part of the world. We had a 10 fatality bus accident here in Aus recently and it was "the worst road accident in decades". Pretty awful that it happens almost routinely elsewhere.

I met with the health and safety team at a large multinational manufacturer, with factories all around the world, US, UK, Asia (including India and China). Their health and safety chart showed that, by a large margin, the highest number of worldwide health and safety lost days came from transporting workers to factories in India.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #28
legitster wrote: post #16

My local paper still does a good job of covering a variety of topics fairly and non-partisanly. Albeit it a day late and with paper-thin coverage. However, their staff has been cut so razor thin that most of the articles are from syndication. I read Money Stuff from Matt Levine everyday, if for no other reason than it's a good read. And if you want random, Peter Zeihan has been posting videos daily where he goes into…

Zeihan is a great read if and only if you also read a wide variety of competing viewpoints to contrast against. He gets some things right but he gets a lot of things wrong too. Like any popular talking head he says what people want to hear, like "China is going to collapse with a decade". But he started saying that 20 years ago.

So things like "China is going to collapse" is a good hot take sound bite but he goes into way more depth in his book about population decline, how each country has a baby boomer population hitting retirement (at different paces), how those impact economics, the natural resources available in a region, etc.

Reading Zeihans latest book it feels like someone is giving you a play by play account of a game of Civilization, except its real. There is a lot of history in there about how we got to our current state with a lot of the predictions that are based on various factors. He's not saying things are certainties, more so that adding up a bunch of factors like above support his prediction.

Hot take/sound bites aren't a great source for any news, doesn't matter who its from.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by mrjay42 »

For french speakers, and they have some of their content in English, and automated translation is always possible: https://www.mediapart.fr/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediapart

Medipart is one of the only medias in France (there is only 1 other I can think of) that is NOT owned by private interests, a network, a billionaire, or many billionaires or millionaires. It is funded by its subscribers And above all else, it does investigative journalism which actually led MANY times ministers and other powerful people to justice.

Never ever Mediapart has been wrong so far when building a case against a corrupted official. Every time French justice system followed the same conclusion as Medipart.

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Otherwise as other mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Which exists also in your own language!

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And... https://theintercept.com/

Very well known for having revealed the documents sent by Reality Winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner#Role_of_The_Int...

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by markx2 »

In the order Firefox stores them:

https://www.axios.com/

https://www.slow-journalism.com/blog

http://www.guardian.co.uk

http://www.independent.co.uk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html *

https://novaramedia.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/

http://skimfeed.com

https://www.thesun.co.uk/ *

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/

https://unherd.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

https://leftfootforward.org/

* - I look at the front page only so I am informed as to what the latest bait is. Never read any articles.

I also bypass paywalls where possible. This bookmark helps:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(docume...))

Re: Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

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Post by logicalmonster »

No news source is completely unbiased, but I feel like I can put more trust in news sources that are willing to really "call out their own team" when they're full of shit.

For what little it's worth, I disagree with guys like @GlennGreenwald on some topics, but he's fearless in being willing to call out the left when they're stupid on issues like war and many other things. That's the mark of somebody actually attempting to be a newsman and not an advocate.

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