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Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by Symmetry »

Sukotto wrote: post #141

Currently reading: Much Fall of Blood: Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint Recently read: Wise Man's Fear: Patrick Rothfuss Cryoburn: Lois McMaster Bujold Miles in Love: Lois McMaster Bujold RSS, highlights Comics A Softer World | http://www.rsspect.com/rss/asw.xml | http://www.asofterworld.com Chart Porn | http://chartporn.org/feed/ | http://chartporn.org Dr. McNinja | http://www.rauros.net/drmcnrss2.php | http://drmcninja.…

I absolutely loved the first book in that series you're reading from, "The Shadow of the Lion", and would strongly recommend it to anyone who thinks the words "historical fantasy" could appeal to them.

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by shortformblog »

selamattidur wrote: post #40

I really like the guys at Short Form Blog, who have a really great, attractive-looking approach to aggregating the day's news online. http://www.shortformblog.com

Bummer you got downvoted seemingly arbitrarily. :( We work really hard on it.

But glad you like it! Thanks for reading!

- Ernie @ShortFormBlog

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by kebaman »

nollidge wrote: post #123
kebaman wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the site, too. I noticed there's no ads at all, and no subscription. The About link explains the site adequately and briefly, but no mention of the owner. I'm curious of the ownership - it doesn't appear to be a business with any revenue for such a good idea.

You like what site? He listed about 25.

24in60.com, sorry.

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by Sukotto »

Symmetry wrote: post #161
Sukotto wrote: post #141

Currently reading: Much Fall of Blood: Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint Recently read: Wise Man's Fear: Patrick Rothfuss Cryoburn: Lois McMaster Bujold Miles in Love: Lois McMaster Bujold RSS, highlights Comics A Softer World | http://www.rsspect.com/rss/asw.xml | http://www.asofterworld.com Chart Porn | http://chartporn.org/feed/ | http://chartporn.org Dr. McNinja | http://www.rauros.net/drmcnrss2.php | http://drmcninja.…

I absolutely loved the first book in that series you're reading from, "The Shadow of the Lion", and would strongly recommend it to anyone who thinks the words "historical fantasy" could appeal to them.

If you liked that series and want to check out some other good historical fiction, you might also like:

- the Belisarius series (starting with "An Oblique Approach") by Eric Flint and David Drake which is an alternate history / military science fiction series chronicling Belisarius' (one f the all time great Roman generals) war of survival against a being from our far future. My description doesn't really do it justice... it's a great read.

- the Ring of Fire series (starting with "1632"), also by Eric Flint, in which a small West Virgina mining town is suddenly moved to somewhere in Germany during the 30 Year's War. The first book is a little too pro-union for my taste, but it's still a good read. The series really blossoms a couple of books in when Flint opens things up into a shared universe and invites a lot of other authors to come and play

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by keyle »

sktrdie wrote: post #98
keyle wrote: post #95

http://supapaper.com/

Do the colors provide any meaning? Like maybe red is 'hotter news' or something?

No it's purely for skimming through and making the difference between the articles title. As a separator if you like.

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by karlzt »

Sukotto wrote: post #147
hvs wrote: post #144

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So, your day job is "reading RSS feeds"?

The only high volume ones are AskMetafilter and thesimpledollar. Right now I just skim the headlines/summaries and only look at the most interesting ones. I'm seriously considering dropping them though.

you should drop them.

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by Auguste »

Sukotto wrote: post #141

Currently reading: Much Fall of Blood: Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint Recently read: Wise Man's Fear: Patrick Rothfuss Cryoburn: Lois McMaster Bujold Miles in Love: Lois McMaster Bujold RSS, highlights Comics A Softer World | http://www.rsspect.com/rss/asw.xml | http://www.asofterworld.com Chart Porn | http://chartporn.org/feed/ | http://chartporn.org Dr. McNinja | http://www.rauros.net/drmcnrss2.php | http://drmcninja.…

How did you produce such a well-formatted list? By hand, or do you have some kind of script?

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by bvi »

akkartik wrote: post #18

In order of priority: 1. gmail. I still have a manageable amount of email, and I enjoy my inbox. My best conversations happen on it. I leave my inbox empty every night. 2. hacker news 3. arc forum and, recently, factor archives 4. google reader. I subscribe to 150 low-volume feeds that I want to read every last thing on. They generate about 25 articles a day. 5a. I intermittently read every single comment on HN for p…

+1 for HackerStream. Looks excellent!

Re: Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?

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Post by rivalis »

Random stuff. Really high-entropy, high-novelty stuff, as different from research papers and math/cs textbooks as I can manage (these make up the bulk of my reading material). Currently:

- Portrait of a Lady - The Illiad - A collection of Walter Benjamin's very early work - The Braddock Essays (a collection of award-winning essays about teaching composition to college students)

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