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Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by dwaltrip »

xyzxyz998 wrote: post #4

I visit n-gate.com weekly. I am not very well-aware of stuff outside css/js and lot of people here talk confidently about stuff they have no clue of, unopposed. n-gate reminds me how little people on this site know stuff outside of css/js/business. Rest are clueless wannabes trying to one-up each other. My favorite comment will always be- somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed…

> I'm sure I'll be downvoted which will be further proof of what I'm saying.

This is an arrogant and confrontational statement to make, especially given your respectable admission of lack of awareness outside of CSS/js.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by FullMtlAlcoholc »

Not a site per say, but I check out PBS Digital Studios daily on youtube. Namely:

Infinite Series - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g (I never thought I would find a math series one of my favorite channels)

SpaceTime - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

Crash Course - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q

When done properly, web video/animated content can greatly enhance learning abstract, obtuse material and can be worth 1000 words per second. From Infinite Series, I finally got the gist of quantum computing.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by b3b0p »

I try to limit it to the following:

US Gamer: https://www.usgamer.net

Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com (I'm premium subscriber)

Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com

NeoGAF: https://www.neogaf.com (I try not to sometimes as it's a time sink, but it's fun, mindless and stressless.)

and

Hacker News of course.

I try to stay away from Reddit and as it's a time sink for me and I find can stress me mentally.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by chillingeffect »

Some of the only decent writing I ever see on the web:

http://popehat.com

It's brief, unapologetic, patient explanations about specific cases in law that touch on popular topics. It really shows how non-black-and-white the world is and especially how bringing knowledge to it gives you clarity, even when you're not in total agreement.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by santoshmaharshi »

brador wrote: post #25
santoshmaharshi wrote: post #14

Daily - Mostly Tech / Science. I love hacker news as it covers basic science as well. From discovery of planets, to Gene editing. Hacker News :) http://techmeme.com/ https://slashdot.org/ Weekly - World http://kottke.org/ https://www.edge.org/ Youtube App on Ipad, Subscription to Joe Rogen, Tim Ferris, and many others Podcasters like these mostly point out to any random topic under the sun, and the discussion is Deep…

You need http://skimfeed.com in your life.

Yeah, that's a good one.:)

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by santoshmaharshi »

javitury wrote: post #34
brador wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need http://skimfeed.com in your life.

An aggregator composed of other news aggregators. As a concept it is great, but it will never come close to platforms like reddit. It's like newspapers, most of them just buy the news from agencies then complain about the decline of the (traditional) industry. An aggregator without curation will be so redundant and boring... Instead look at those places that have something special and make you come back. They all hav…

Google RSS Reader was my defacto, for exactly this purpose. Some were direct feeds from NYT, TechCrunch, etc but many were simply, the topic searches and RSS feed obtained from those. I miss those days.

Google News does allow you some personalization. But, I am big fan of river of news concept (Dave Winer). There are many solutions still, but I am limiting my media consumption and hacker news and couple of other sites faily satisfy the need.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by kureikain »

I mostly uses Hacker News. From there, it leads me to site such as HighScalability, then Medium engineering blog of company or individual developer. Once you like something, they suggest other thing and I go from there.

I also try to visit engineering blog of company that I like such as Github, Etsy, Segment, Stripe and learn from their blog. They usually have very good article about what really happening at a real company and what they do to solve.

Then I also use Youtube, subscirbe to Confreaks, and again, whenever I like some video, they suggest something very close to what I like.

Then sometimes ago, I started to collect links and realize I should share with the world and start this site: https://betterdev.link/

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Post by SZJX »

mdlap wrote: post #15

https://theconversation.com/ - Great source of news and analysis of everything. Articles by academics and researchers. Claims almost always backed with evidence. http://www.kurzweilai.net/ - Articles about some of the most interesting bleeding-edge high-tech research. https://arstechnica.com/ - Tech and tech-related news.

Well the conversation might say their claims are backed up etc. but so do most other news outlets of scale. Eventually they still have clear, inevitable political leanings and bias there, just as every other news outlet.
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