As much as I enjoy HN, no, it is only one small part of my news consumption in a number of fields, which primarily comes in the form of RSS feeds. Currently I use Google Reader but I've used all kinds of readers. Since I prefer the Dave Winer-style "stream of news" approach I can trivially change readers since I don't generate a backlog. I've used "stream of news" since it was, well, the only choice since there was only one RSS generator and consumer and that's what it used.
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#121.HN 2./r/worldnews 3./r/politics 4...More Reddit. 5.Twitter
I migrated from un-official feeds of HN on Twitter to here.
It is better anyways because you can see the discussion behind it.
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#13For `tech' news, yes.
For `news' news, the BBC (Radio 4 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/).
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#14HN and reddit.
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#15Answered no - HN, Twitter, and Yahoo News
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#16-Slashdot
-HN
-Drudge Report/Google News
-WSJ (Highest quality, but I like having the paper, which has eluded me recently)
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#17It's my primary source of tech news. I use Google Reader and still gave a fair number of feeds, but I use HN via the main page.
I used to read a lot of Reddit, but everything is too political there. I got sick of seeing 50 wikileak stories make it to the top of every sub-reddit.
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#18I like HN has the heavily tech articles float up. General news should really belong to Reddit.
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#19Fark comes first.
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#20It is one of my many sources. If I had to pick one service that I depend upon a lot, I would have to pick TechMeme.
But, HN is often faster than TM.