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Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
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Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#132TechNews:
Techmeme,
Techcrunch,
Daring fireball,
Oreilly News,
Official Google Blog
Hardware: AnandTech, RealWorld Technologies, StorageMojo, ServerFault Blog, Gustavo Duarte,
Security: A Day in the Life of IS investigator, Microsoft Security Research Center, Layer 8,
Fun: Reddit, Boston Globe's Big Picture, Atlantic's In Focus,
Others: Lifehacker, The Art of Manliness, Windows PowerShell blog, Paul Graham Essays, Anil Dash, Catonmat, Joel Spolsky, MintLife, High Scalability, The old new Thing
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#133I limit my subs to mostly tech and feeds that post infrequently but well.
I go back and forth between enabling Hacker News and disabling it. It's too busy and distracting sometimes when I need to get things done and I don't want to get lost it some lengthy article somewhere.
Here are my current feeds sans HN
http://cmurphycode.posterous.com
http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
http://blog.lastinfirstout.net/
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#134Books.
Books have a relevance that's hard to match with blog posts, newspapers and magazines.
Books from 200 to 2000 years ago still have a lot of relevance. (Human nature hasn't changed much).
So instead of reading about the latest privacy invasion from Facebook or the latest startup that no one will know about in 2 years, try a book.
I'm trying this myself. Spending less time on hacker news, and more time with good books. So far, much more satisfying. You feel like you accomplished something after finishing a good book. Versus feeling like you wasted a morning/night reading through "timely news".
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#135Books. Books have a relevance that's hard to match with blog posts, newspapers and magazines. Books from 200 to 2000 years ago still have a lot of relevance. (Human nature hasn't changed much). So instead of reading about the latest privacy invasion from Facebook or the latest startup that no one will know about in 2 years, try a book. I'm trying this myself. Spending less time on hacker news, and more time with good…
And go for the ones with real pages on real paper.
The ones you can lend to your friends after having read them. The ones that your parents have read, kept and that you took in their bookshelf when you were a kid.
The ones that your friends gave back to you and that will wait in your bookshelf for your children to take and read. The ones their friends will borrow and that will probably giggle a bit, because they will have difficulties deciphering the notes your father wrote on a margin.
Because if content has a price, knowledge ought to be free.
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been looking for something like 24in60.com for a long time!
The only disappointment there is the lack of reference links. However, it is an interesting site.
Actually this site seems interesting enough to warrant a separate discussion -- here it is:
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#137Books. Books have a relevance that's hard to match with blog posts, newspapers and magazines. Books from 200 to 2000 years ago still have a lot of relevance. (Human nature hasn't changed much). So instead of reading about the latest privacy invasion from Facebook or the latest startup that no one will know about in 2 years, try a book. I'm trying this myself. Spending less time on hacker news, and more time with good…
And go for the ones with real pages on real paper. The ones you can lend to your friends after having read them. The ones that your parents have read, kept and that you took in their bookshelf when you were a kid. The ones that your friends gave back to you and that will wait in your bookshelf for your children to take and read. The ones their friends will borrow and that will probably giggle a bit, because they will…
To be frank - your comment is just an appeal to nostalgia, not practicality. It comes off in the same way as when some people try to tell you that buying MP3s on the net is wrong and that buying physical CDs are the only right way to do it.
Ebooks have huge advantages compared to physical books. They're availble everywhere (no need for long errands/waiting just to find the book you seek), much cheaper, searchable and don't take up space in your home. They're not lendable (yet), but that's the only issue with them.
I'm not saying that ebooks are "the correct choice". A lot of people still love the feeling of physical books, perhaps rightly so. But please don't tell me that buying ebooks are somehow wrong or any lesser than buying physical books.
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#138I have two things going every morning:
1) I flip through my Reeder app on the iPad which has a mix of blogs in there that either publish far too ofter (like techcrunch) or far too seldom (like avc.com; ok that one's in between). I however try to have a great selection of various topics in there from architecture, design (like swiss-miss.com) to the tech kind-of news.
2) Then I have a selection of apps or Safari bookmarks sitting on my first iPad page that I go through in a bit more detailed fashion. I'm listing them below:
- dribbble.com (dribbblr app)
- quora.com
- forrst.com
- macrumors.com
- thenextweb.com
- flipboard app
- twitter app
Then I'm ready to start the day and go on with it. Not included are philosophical books I try to read, but I don't read nearly as much as I should.
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#139The Economist (dead tree edition)
http://lesswrong.com/ Thinking about thinking
http://www.realworldtech.com/ For really in depth articles on computer topics, and the forums
http://www.anandtech.com/ for hardware benchmarks and reviews
http://blog.regehr.org/ a blog about C compilers and hiking
http://marginalrevolution.com/ Economics progressor joint blog
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/ Intelligent and sane liberal blogger
http://www.theatlantic.com/megan-mcardle/ Intelligent and sane conservative blogger. "Conservative" might actually be a bit of a stretch there...
http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/ About space travel/combat - its almost a guilty pleasure.
Also the blogs of a few authors and friends.
Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
#140http://hubski.com Like HN meets twitter.
second.
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