Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs, news boards, YouTube channels to follow?

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Post by daynum » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 10:23 AM UTC

Hacker News is the sole platform I discovered that caters to the type of information I want to stay updated with. I like it a lot.

While browsing YouTube, I sometimes discover stuff that interests me and that I've missed, like OpenAI drama, Helix Editor, and Qualcomm Oryon CPU. Then it feels like it is necessary to keep browsing youtube to stay updated, but youtube then sucks up a lot of my time.

I wanted to gather some good quality resource suggestions (besides hacker news) from where I could gather my news regularly, and stay updated with tech, computer science, and anything groundbreaking. And not fall into YouTube's recommendation engine trap.

Can you guys please suggest some?

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#2

Post by h2odragon » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:37 PM UTC

I do a daily links collection, much of it sourced from here on HN.

https://snafuhall.com/

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Post by jacky2wong » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:43 PM UTC

I imagine Twitter would be the main one.

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Post by syx » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:47 PM UTC

I usually go with the followings: Sidebar[0], Kottke.org[1], Waxy[2]. Obviously, Twitter and Hacker News get interesting links first, so typically these 3 websites repost after something becomes famous.

[0] https://sidebar.io/ [1] https://kottke.org/ [2] https://waxy.org/

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#5

Post by paulorlando » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:51 PM UTC

It's more evergreen content and I'm biased, but you could try: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/

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Post by tmountain » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:54 PM UTC

If you’re interested in learning jazz guitar, Jens Larsen’s YouTube channel is a veritable treasure trove. I have made huge progress following his lessons.

https://www.youtube.com/@JensLarsen

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Post by supriyo-biswas » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:57 PM UTC

> OpenAI drama

How could you have missed it? Half the threads here were about said drama when it was unfolding.

I don’t really have any recommendations to give, because even I’m in the same boat and get to know things that I miss on HN through YouTube or through tech-focused social circles. However, HN’s best page[1] is something to look at occasionally to check if you’ve missed something.

For general news, there’s Wikipedia’s current events[2] list, and you may find it worth paying for quality outlets like FT, The Economist, or Reuters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/best

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

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Post by jillesvangurp » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

Ask chat gpt to summarize things for you and recommend sources. Surprisingly effective. I just ask it what's happening in Germany, what's happening in the world, what are people on HN talking about, etc. It will do a few bing searches and web page fetches and then just give you the summary.

AI is the way to go. It's summarizing and aggregating here so it's not dreaming anything up. You need chat gpt plus for this.

I even did a little HN gpt for this for my personal amusement that uses the snarky tone from the register.

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Post by tensorush » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 1:01 PM UTC

Here're my favorite personal blogs: https://tensorush.github.io/fpb/

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#10

Post by robviren » Wed, Dec 06, 2023, 1:03 PM UTC

Not so much news as a fun delve into older tech and code. This channel explores code in retro (god I'm old) games which reveals fascinating things about why things ended up the way they did with certain bugs. Fun to see developers have been getting business pressure for unrealistic timelines since forever.

https://m.youtube.com/@DisplacedGamers