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

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

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Post by justinhj » Sat, May 14, 2011, 1:31 PM UTC

Symmetry wrote: post #139

The 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 liber…

http://moreintelligentlife.com/ this is a good read I found on a trip to the UK, a quarterly from the Economist. Long interesting articles

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

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Post by uriel » Sat, May 14, 2011, 3:46 PM UTC

cschmidt wrote: post #109

The Economist is great, although I mostly "read" the audio edition in my car on my horrible commute.

The audio edition of The Economist is absolutely fantastic, as well read as it is well written, a pleasure to listen to.

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

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Post by Sukotto » Sat, May 14, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

Auguste wrote: post #168

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?

I use Google Reader which allows you to export everything.

  1 - click "Manage subscriptions", bottom left of the reader
      which opens the "settings" page
  2 - click "Import/Export" 
  3 - click "Export your subscriptions as an OPML file"

Now you have a nice XML representation which you can massage inside your editor of choice.

When you're done, prepend 2 spaces to the start of each line so HN will treat it like code.

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

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Post by notJim » Sun, May 15, 2011, 6:30 PM UTC

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.…

Are you still finding I Will Teach You To Be Rich worth reading? I read it several years ago when it first started, but stopped when it turned into mostly fluffy articles and promotions of his ridiculous $800 program to make people more money. The spamminess of it kind of became a turn off.

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

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Post by hallz » Mon, May 16, 2011, 4:22 AM UTC

notJim wrote: post #174

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.…

Are you still finding I Will Teach You To Be Rich worth reading? I read it several years ago when it first started, but stopped when it turned into mostly fluffy articles and promotions of his ridiculous $800 program to make people more money. The spamminess of it kind of became a turn off.

I Agree, I read it when it first started, now it is totally spammy/scammy/sleazy. He is just preying on 'self help' types.

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

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Post by dpcan » Tue, May 17, 2011, 7:20 PM UTC

joshfinnie wrote: post #125

dpcan wrote: post #59

Reddit Local news website HN Email

> Local news website It is funny you mention that. I feel as though I have almost forgotten about my local news until recently. Now that I watch the majority of my TV through either Netflix or Hulu, I never catch the 11pm news. I don't subscribe to my local paper, and never went to their website. I find it amazing on how disconnected I was with anything happening in my current area since all I read was national news…

In small areas, the local news website is much more important usually. I can't imagine much of it would apply if I lived in LA or NY,NY - that or there would just be SO MUCH to follow it wouldn't be worth the time.

In my small community, the local news website applies to things happening in my back-yard sometimes.

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

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Post by Auguste » Wed, May 18, 2011, 11:39 AM UTC

Sukotto wrote: post #173

Auguste wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I use Google Reader which allows you to export everything. 1 - click "Manage subscriptions", bottom left of the reader which opens the "settings" page 2 - click "Import/Export" 3 - click "Export your subscriptions as an OPML file" Now you have a nice XML representation which you can massage inside your editor of choice. When you're done, prepend 2 spaces to the start of each line so HN will treat it like code.

Excellent, thanks. I'll have to try that and see what kind of RSS mess I have.

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

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Post by rmc » Wed, May 18, 2011, 3:13 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #137

tttp wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

They're not lendable (yet)

Pirate them. Then they are lendable.

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

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Post by qpleple » Thu, May 19, 2011, 9:14 AM UTC

keane wrote: post #73

Essential: http://www.24in60.com/ Tech: http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://arstechnica.com/ http://www.techmeme.com/ News: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.france24.com/en/ http://english.aljazeera.net/ http://alarabonline.org/english/ http://www.haaretz.com/news/international http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/ http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ http:…

24in60.com looks good !

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

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Post by ccu » Sat, May 21, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

henry_flower wrote: post #81

chmike wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can we get an invitation ? I can't even vote.

Any quora user can sent it (the invitation) to your email. If you are interested, I can do that.

Hello could you send me the invitation, please.