I visit n-gate.com weekly. I am not very well-aware of stuff outside css/js and lot of people here talk confidently about stuff they have no clue of, unopposed. n-gate reminds me how little people on this site know stuff outside of css/js/business. Rest are clueless wannabes trying to one-up each other.
My favorite comment will always be- somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously.
I'm sure I'll be downvoted which will be further proof of what I'm saying. Not that I care really. I make an account a week.
> Hacker news is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement.
I'll also add- it serves as a punching bag for people who can't speak up at their work- they vent their frustrations here by belittling everyone's work.
I mean this is the nature of the web. But HN is already as good as we can get. You yourself keep coming back as well, apparently. Otherwise do you have an alternative to propose?
Is there a secret area on HN where people worship CSS/JS with blind faith? Because whichever post related to it I visit, there's a healthy dose of skepticism, especially in Electron/ReactNative/AnyOtherJSWrapper posts.
Further down you replied to someone else complaining about how other's work is belittled, then you write this
> somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously.
I am not sure if this is bait or lack of self awareness, though I'd lean towards bait, considering you are also worried about downvotes.
People on HN will rather gently point out that Electron, being convenient to you, is at the same time a horrible resource hog and exactly the opposite of what an elegantly-written, efficient and optimized application would be.
Especially for some of us who actually create native apps using Electron might just be laziness - or inability to really care about the user.
> Electron might just be laziness - or inability to really care about the user.
Or it might be that it is just good enough for the target user. My 2013 Macbook has enough power to run all the Electron apps I need without slowing down...well it did once I removed Atom and learned to love Visual Studio Code.
I think that Atom's performance woes and resource hogging tends to be a stand-in for all atom apps.
This is precisely the attitude that makes mature programmers not taking you seriously.
If you're young and feel the need to express dismissal to the people who take their work more seriously, that's fine -- hormones and stuff, we've all been through that, so meh, nobody is mad about it.
You still shouldn't forget it's a _job_ and not a fashion statement.
The fact that Electron is easy to work with, _for you_, means absolutely nothing about the end result of the work done through it. The topic has been beaten to death here in HN, you can check -- but then again, being that dismissive and arrogant probably means you'll never challenge your opinion. Oh well, still worth the shot in giving you the other perspective.
I never expressed support for electron. I merely mentioned it.
You've inferred that I'm young (nope), implied that I'm not mature, don't take my work seriously, that I have "hormones and stuff", that I consider electron a fashion statement (?), that I'm dismissive and arrogant, and that I'll never challenge my opinion. Phew!
For the record, I have dabbled with electron, and I'm on the fence about it. It's a quick path to MVP, but it has obvious performance issues and I'm not sure I wish to inflict these on my end users. I'm teaching myself react native and python/qt at the moment instead.
Thanks for proving my point so completely. Hey and look, a downvote too.
I still stand behind my statement that this is immature and disrespectful. The rest are "if"-s, you can check my comment. There are no claims, there are "if"-s.
Granted I made a few assumptions. If you don't want that, write more than one sentence. ;)
http://highscalability.com/ - weekly newsletter about scalability, distributed computing, computer science, and other relevant things. I don't think it gets attention it deserves - it's really, really good and contains wealth of
(mostly) timeless information.
Also, Reddit. Not the default front-page stuff, of course, but more in-depth and smaller subreddits, such as /r/netsec, /r/financialindependence, or /r/rust - there's a multitude of nice focused communities. Occassionally even /r/programming is more interesting than Hacker News though :)
I formatted my list with names rather than URLs, but now I see the advantage of doing it your way. At a glance I can see that three of your sites are in my browser history.
Daily - Mostly Tech / Science.
I love hacker news as it covers basic science as well. From discovery of planets, to Gene editing.
Hacker News :)
http://techmeme.com/https://slashdot.org/
Weekly - World
http://kottke.org/https://www.edge.org/
Youtube App on Ipad, Subscription to Joe Rogen, Tim Ferris, and many others Podcasters like these mostly point out to any random topic under the sun, and the discussion is Deep. Example - check out these podcasts and their discussion on Ethics, AI, Health, Finance and Trump :)
Random
Facebook - mostly from friends and of personal nature, but I do visit resources they point out
An aggregator composed of other news aggregators. As a concept it is great, but it will never come close to platforms like reddit. It's like newspapers, most of them just buy the news from agencies then complain about the decline of the (traditional) industry. An aggregator without curation will be so redundant and boring...
Instead look at those places that have something special and make you come back. They all have some differentiating factor. The WSJ from time to time produces high quality non-redundant content. The comments or content produced by users on HN and reddit are sometimes better than the news elsewhere.
Curation and the user base confer a site personality. This is why places like HN or reddit are so popular. Reddit offers a very high degree of segmentation to users through subreddit subscriptions. This allows users with perhaps very different personalities to get along by only focusing on things they have in common. Not only that, it incentives users to create, share and enjoy content together.
Y combinator has a true commitment to provide a simple platform to a user niche they are interested in. In contrast to the laissez faire curation approach of reddit, the strategy of HN is not as broad but for this specific niche is of higher quality. Although sometimes HN is used for Y combinator's purposes, they don't abuse it and many times the interests are aligned with most of their user base.
Google RSS Reader was my defacto, for exactly this purpose. Some were direct feeds from NYT, TechCrunch, etc but many were simply, the topic searches and RSS feed obtained from those. I miss those days.
Google News does allow you some personalization. But, I am big fan of river of news concept (Dave Winer). There are many solutions still, but I am limiting my media consumption and hacker news and couple of other sites faily satisfy the need.
https://theconversation.com/ - Great source of news and analysis of everything. Articles by academics and researchers. Claims almost always backed with evidence.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ - Articles about some of the most interesting bleeding-edge high-tech research.
Well the conversation might say their claims are backed up etc. but so do most other news outlets of scale. Eventually they still have clear, inevitable political leanings and bias there, just as every other news outlet.
Life and everything (non-technical): http://omswami.com
Treasure of practical knowledge right from the mouth of one who has attained enlightenment in the transcidental sense of the word.
Biweekly post – 1st and 3rd Saturday every month. Earlier (till about an year ago) for roughly 5 years, it was every Saturday so there's lot of pearls of wisdom in there with amusing tales and jokes to instill the knowledge within.
Hacker News (of course)
LWN
Ars Technica
Angry Asian Man
Climate Denial Crock of the Week
Cool Tools
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain
ESA Top News (Euro. Space Agency)
Jewish Daily Forward
Jonesblog (retinal neuroscientist and photographer:http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/about/)
NASA Image of the Day
Physical Review Letters
Not Even Wrong
Planet Clojure
RealClimate
Retraction Watch
New York Times
WTOP (local news)
Schneier on Security
Slate Star Codex
Space Safety Magazine
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (highly recommended)
Stories from the trauma bay
Hacker News, Marginal Revolution and the Financial Times. Reddit mostly for leisure, but occasionally also for knowledge and inspiration.
Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.
I tried doing the same thing, now on my laptop I've installed Redirector chrome extension[0]. Every time I try going on Reddit or HN I get a random wiki article.
I've found myself using my phone more often, or incognito(extension disabled) to browse those sites.
Not sure why it's downvoted. That was my first thought too. There are tons of educational videos, lectures and inspiring interviews. If you keep watching this kind of stuff recommendations also get quite reasonable.
Same here. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of crap on Youtube, but man oh man, there is SO much amazing quality content as well. So many great lectures on nearly every topic under the sun, conference talks out the yazoo, documentaries, tutorials, etc. I could pretty much just spend all day on Youtube (or videolectures.net) just soaking up knowledge, if I had nothing else to do.
We're subscribed to the same newsfeeds. In addition, I only look at hacker news through the weekly newsletter, in order to avoid the dopamine addiction of checking multiple times a day.
As for the The Economist, I've found that they always gives a great dose of history and context to their articles, which is what I would be searching for in reddit anyway, so I've found reddit to be a lot less useful nowadays.
Some time ago I built https://10hn.pancik.com/ to aggregate and rank interesting articles and make them easily readable on the phone. There are days when I don't read anything else, just swiping through 10HN reading few long reads.
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My favorite comment will always be- somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously.
I'm sure I'll be downvoted which will be further proof of what I'm saying. Not that I care really. I make an account a week.
I'll also add- it serves as a punching bag for people who can't speak up at their work- they vent their frustrations here by belittling everyone's work.
Further down you replied to someone else complaining about how other's work is belittled, then you write this
> somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously.
I am not sure if this is bait or lack of self awareness, though I'd lean towards bait, considering you are also worried about downvotes.
Or it might be that it is just good enough for the target user. My 2013 Macbook has enough power to run all the Electron apps I need without slowing down...well it did once I removed Atom and learned to love Visual Studio Code.
I think that Atom's performance woes and resource hogging tends to be a stand-in for all atom apps.
If you're young and feel the need to express dismissal to the people who take their work more seriously, that's fine -- hormones and stuff, we've all been through that, so meh, nobody is mad about it.
You still shouldn't forget it's a _job_ and not a fashion statement.
The fact that Electron is easy to work with, _for you_, means absolutely nothing about the end result of the work done through it. The topic has been beaten to death here in HN, you can check -- but then again, being that dismissive and arrogant probably means you'll never challenge your opinion. Oh well, still worth the shot in giving you the other perspective.
You've inferred that I'm young (nope), implied that I'm not mature, don't take my work seriously, that I have "hormones and stuff", that I consider electron a fashion statement (?), that I'm dismissive and arrogant, and that I'll never challenge my opinion. Phew!
For the record, I have dabbled with electron, and I'm on the fence about it. It's a quick path to MVP, but it has obvious performance issues and I'm not sure I wish to inflict these on my end users. I'm teaching myself react native and python/qt at the moment instead.
Thanks for proving my point so completely. Hey and look, a downvote too.
I still stand behind my statement that this is immature and disrespectful. The rest are "if"-s, you can check my comment. There are no claims, there are "if"-s.
Granted I made a few assumptions. If you don't want that, write more than one sentence. ;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8531803
This is an arrogant and confrontational statement to make, especially given your respectable admission of lack of awareness outside of CSS/js.
Also, Reddit. Not the default front-page stuff, of course, but more in-depth and smaller subreddits, such as /r/netsec, /r/financialindependence, or /r/rust - there's a multitude of nice focused communities. Occassionally even /r/programming is more interesting than Hacker News though :)
http://financialindependence.reddit.com
http://netsec.reddit.com
http://rust.reddit.com
http://programming.reddit.com
http://nautil.us/
https://lwn.net/
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/
https://meaningness.com/
http://slatestarcodex.com/
http://www.britishpathe.com/
http://www.atlasobscura.com/
https://scholars-stage.blogspot.my
http://www.counterpunch.org/
http://harpers.org/history/
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/
https://zcomm.org/zmag/
https://the-artifice.com
https://liliputing.com/
https://dev.to/
http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/
https://blog.codinghorror.com/
https://stratechery.com/
http://www.tedunangst.com/inks/
Mostly because we created it. :)
similar to HN but much much more humble in every way. I quite like it. Although I don't have account so I am mostly reading.
Edit: Oops, turns out I did receive an invite. Thanks, elorm!
Email: filip.miletic at me.com
Definitively non-tech, but full of knowledge and inspiration.
Weekly - World http://kottke.org/ https://www.edge.org/ Youtube App on Ipad, Subscription to Joe Rogen, Tim Ferris, and many others Podcasters like these mostly point out to any random topic under the sun, and the discussion is Deep. Example - check out these podcasts and their discussion on Ethics, AI, Health, Finance and Trump :)
Random Facebook - mostly from friends and of personal nature, but I do visit resources they point out
Instead look at those places that have something special and make you come back. They all have some differentiating factor. The WSJ from time to time produces high quality non-redundant content. The comments or content produced by users on HN and reddit are sometimes better than the news elsewhere.
Curation and the user base confer a site personality. This is why places like HN or reddit are so popular. Reddit offers a very high degree of segmentation to users through subreddit subscriptions. This allows users with perhaps very different personalities to get along by only focusing on things they have in common. Not only that, it incentives users to create, share and enjoy content together.
Y combinator has a true commitment to provide a simple platform to a user niche they are interested in. In contrast to the laissez faire curation approach of reddit, the strategy of HN is not as broad but for this specific niche is of higher quality. Although sometimes HN is used for Y combinator's purposes, they don't abuse it and many times the interests are aligned with most of their user base.
Google News does allow you some personalization. But, I am big fan of river of news concept (Dave Winer). There are many solutions still, but I am limiting my media consumption and hacker news and couple of other sites faily satisfy the need.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ - Articles about some of the most interesting bleeding-edge high-tech research.
https://arstechnica.com/ - Tech and tech-related news.
Archive and RSS feed link here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff
Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.
[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
MIT OpenCourseware channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBb1b_L6zDS3xTUrIALZOw
Stanford online:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa5G_ESCn8Yd4vw5U-gIcg
Professor Leonard:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHhuummRZaIVX7bD4t2czg
NPTEL:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640y4UvDAlya_WOj5U4pfA
Spark Summit:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w
3blue1brown:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
All Things Open:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBhXFK70DbOU15N2BhDQVTg
etc., etc., etc.
American Scientist (distinct from Scientific American) [https://www.americanscientist.org/] for science, engineering and technology.
Foreign Affairs [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/] for international relations and politics.
although I actually switched back to reading these (and others) in ink-on-paper format, which I've found helps me focus much better.
EDIT: Also, Philosophy Now [https://philosophynow.org/] for more abstract ideas.
These are bimonthly publications, and all worth paying money for.
news.ycombinator.com
or to the Economist (which I order-but I tend to listen most of the articles as the audio comes free for subscribers and is of excellent quality).
I try to read books nowadays more than random blogposts. Makes my monkeybrain happier (and I secretly wish wiser).
As for the The Economist, I've found that they always gives a great dose of history and context to their articles, which is what I would be searching for in reddit anyway, so I've found reddit to be a lot less useful nowadays.
Also down arrow doesn't scroll as expected (maybe this is intentional).