Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

#1

Post by aswathrao » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 10:51 AM UTC

I am a regular Hacker News reader. But I like to explore similar options news for Sci-tech and Geo Politics.

What other news sources you use ?

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by AVTizzle » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:02 AM UTC

Mostly other aggregators

https://twitter.com (follow the right people)

https://reddit.com (follow the right subs)

https://techmeme.com

I'm not in the habit of checking in on individual media outlets, but when I see content from WSJ, Bloomberg, or The Information on any of the above aggregators, I generally like what I see.

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

#3

Post by mtmail » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:03 AM UTC

99 comments in "Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20023209

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by AVTizzle » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:05 AM UTC

AVTizzle wrote: post #2

Mostly other aggregators https://twitter.com (follow the right people) https://reddit.com (follow the right subs) https://techmeme.com I'm not in the habit of checking in on individual media outlets, but when I see content from WSJ, Bloomberg, or The Information on any of the above aggregators, I generally like what I see.

Some follow-on mentions:

https://www.stratechery.com

https://www.vox.com

https://www.vox.com/recode-decode-podcast-kara-swisher

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

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Post by nerdbeere » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:06 AM UTC

I subscribed to a couple of newsletters to stay up to date. The TLDR I read on a daily basis. JavaScript Weekly is also very good if you're interested int webdev.

Here's a good list of different newsletters: https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters#technology-...

Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

#6

Post by lifeisstillgood » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 11:07 AM UTC

Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programmes. This generally works - they cover the "biggest" stories of the week, and if it strikes a chord I can go google for more.

However it failed spectacularly a few years back - A political enemy of the UK prime Minister David Cameron had written a book claiming Cameron had put his (Cameron's) penis into the mouth of a dead pig for a university prank. This had been banned from being repeated in UK media but twitter and non-english sources were full. So satirical programs were simply full of jokes about pigs, oink oink noises and more. They got hilarious reactions from those in the know but I simply had no idea why - it was weeks before the explanation broke somehow