Poll: Is HN your main online news source? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by sjs » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 4:37 PM UTC

HN, reddit, Ars Technica, and several tech websites such as AnandTech and Guru3D.

World news and traditional media are just depressing. I got jaded at a young age and tend not to follow it (for better and for worse).

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by jawee » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 4:40 PM UTC

Hacker News is the only thing I am guaranteed to read every day. I will occasionally click over to Google News if I wish to know what is going on in the world or Slashdot if I need something else to look at. But Hacker News usually satisfies me in knowing what is most important to me in the world, which has the same basic tech emphasis as here; the other content that shows up from time-to-time usually matches what I wish to read about fairly well.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by andrerobot » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 4:42 PM UTC

Something Awful is my main news source.

Being serious, Hacker News shouldn't try to be a general news site "for hackers" because believing a hacker prototype exists is absurd.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by xd » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 4:44 PM UTC

I had an RSS aggregator with around a dozen popular news sources like slashdot, digg, reddit etc but I've found that 99.99% of the interesting stories pop up on HN pretty quickly.

So I gave up on news RSS feeds and just have a tab with HN and a tab with a netvibes account with actual blog feeds from the likes of the eevblog, ben heck show, adafruit industries, hack a day etc.. stuff with unique content being added which I was interested in but won't hit HN every time they posted something.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by ajdecon » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 4:49 PM UTC

I'd call it my primary professional news source, along with Twitter. HN gives me a lot of useful information about trends in the startup world, in (mostly web) technology, and so on. And it's interesting seeing what people here think about the world news that makes it through.

But my real primary news source is probably my RSS reader. There's a LOT of news out there that I care about which doesn't make it onto HN. A lot of national and world news doesn't make it here, and I like being generally informed about what's going on. I also keep up with local news, and the current events in various scientific subfields which are relevant to my interests, but not the web startup crowd here.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by ConceptDog » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 5:04 PM UTC

Supplemented with Reddit.

Search engines are great for answers. Reddit and HN are great for questions I didn't think of.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by savoy11 » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 5:05 PM UTC

It was, but lately it is not. News are constantly repeating and the target group is the "I do not have money, but I want to do something" group, which is largely dissatisfying as far as opinions go.

I mostly tend to avoid HN nowadays.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by marklabedz » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 5:12 PM UTC

HN is where I go to find good discussion about topics in which I'm interested. For general news, the BBC still tops my list.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by mikeryan » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 5:14 PM UTC

I really want an "I don't have a primary source of news" choice.

I use a variety of sources and can't really pick favorites, I use HN for hacking, reddit for fun, sfgate.com for local news and sports, NYTimes for more metro news etc.

Re: Poll: Is HN your main online news source?

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Post by chanux » Wed, Dec 29, 2010, 5:16 PM UTC

HN gives me `what matters`. No much time for anything else after finishing daily dose of HN. When I really got nothing else to do, Reddit.