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Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by ROTMetro »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #28

I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss) Journals: professional journals in my field Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, we…

I spent a couple of months trying to find podcasts, but they all seem to consume way to much time for value provided. Can you recommend any high value podcasts that don't just ramble about this weeks business press releases? I don't even care what fields, I used to love just the general consumption of what is going on in the world that the (now) dead internet used to provide.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by acidburnNSA »

ROTMetro wrote: post #81
acidburnNSA wrote: post #28

I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss) Journals: professional journals in my field Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, we…

I spent a couple of months trying to find podcasts, but they all seem to consume way to much time for value provided. Can you recommend any high value podcasts that don't just ramble about this weeks business press releases? I don't even care what fields, I used to love just the general consumption of what is going on in the world that the (now) dead internet used to provide.

I really love this podcast: https://wherewegonext.com/episodes

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by 0xBDB »

Reading (daily): Google News, HN, the Ground News blindspot feed. WSJ, NYT, various RSS on Feedly. Reading (occasional): Techmeme, Techdirt, Metafilter, Memeorandum. More RSS on Feedly.

Podcasts (Daily or as often as they come out, while exercising): NPR News Now, Risky Business, WSJ Minute Briefing, The Dallas Morning News, Cyber Security headlines, Politico Playbook, SANS Internet Stormcenter, AWS Morning Brief. Podcasts (Occasional): Economist Intelligence, Control Loop (OT cybersecurity), FT News Briefing, Ones and Tooze, lots of others on road trips.

YouTube is for entertainment.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by pinguin3 »

All of it is entertainment. Only email is serious, so I block everything during work hours. On dns level, router level and on app level, so it’s to much work to unblock. Then I usually decide to fet away from computer, because long hours sitting are bad for posture. While not perfect, it’s how we naturally deal with most of the world, we ignore it. Like how we only see 10% of what are our eyes see, at most. Some apps to install: self control (mac), leech block (ffox), etc. You can also decide computer is only for work, and block everything at so many levels it’s to much work to unblock.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by person-0-0 »

Hello! I usually look at all my apps that have notifications turned on which Are usually

-Gmail, For work ofc -Youtube, Some Creators come out with videos daily -TikTok, Not usually but sometimes I will check on the app - And lastly i check on discord for any of my work colleagues trying to message me

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by aprdm »

- Hacker news probably once or twice a day

- Reddit probably once a day before going to bed (should kill it really)

- Whatsapp 2-3 times during work hours, turn notifications on after

- Slack / Email during work hours once every 30 minutes or so

- Deleted twitter the moment it got sold.. so that one is gone

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by ajdude »

I have a Feedbin account to sync RSS between my devices. I use NetNewsWire to view those RSS feeds.

I have an RSS feed that captures hackernews posts that make it to the front page, a couple RSS feeds to some YouTube channels that I follow (I don't have a YouTube account) and an RSS feed to some specific niche subreddits.

Finally, I have a personal libreddit instance that I use to browse the "front page" of Reddit (without an account) to see if there's any news that I might have missed.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by spronket_news »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #28

I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss) Journals: professional journals in my field Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, we…

I built a thing that splices HackerNews into an RSS Reader so you can see it all in the same place.

What's neat is it ingests the points from HackerNews, so you can splice the feeds together in a way that preserves the ranking of both feeds.

website: www.spronket.com tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4ZqLro0-o

lmk if you have any questions or feature requests

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by spronket_news »

ttul wrote: post #35

Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about…

www.spronket.com/sharedConfig?shared-config=29270980

heh heh heh

(I added most of these into a feed reader and it works pretty well, although it didn't have time to grab all the podcasts)

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