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Ask HN: What websites do you check each morning?

67 points by sadema ↗ HN
I usually come to work 15-20 mins early and start by bringing up 7 or so tabs in my browser. I'll browse for 10mins or so save any longer article I'm interested in for later.

What websites do you check every day?

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donman123
I do something similar. Every day at breakfast I skim over:

0 Google News

1 TheVerge

2 TechCrunch

3 Twitter

4 r/bapcsales

5 MarketWatch

6 dilbert

jgforbes
1. Hacker News

2. Reddit /r/programming

3. Indiehackers

4. Twitter

5. NYTimes

DanBC
HN, Twitter, Tildes, BBC News, The Guardian and then The Telegraph (these two to try to balance each of them out a bit), The Q Community[1], if I'm in a good mood Reddit but I'm doing that less and hoping Tildes takes off. Then there's a bunch of stuff that I'm ploughing through at the moment, so lots of inquiries into patient safety or culture of NHS trusts and effective corporate boards. So, lots of stuff from NHS England, NHS Improvement, and on the gov.uk site. And then I'll have a look at Bailii to see if there are any recent useful cases about English benefits or family law.

I used to listen to a lot of radio, and I haven't for some time, and I'm going to start doing that a lot more.

[1] It's a QI in health thing I'm involved in. https://q.health.org.uk/

mrkstu
HN, TechMeme, Google News, Drudge (like it or not, he helps set the agenda for the national conversation), NYT/WP, Real Clear Politics, MacRumors, scan Reddit for interesting topics, though hasn't been sticky for me as late, BBC News.

HN is probably the best at finding new and interesting stuff- though the main feed has been low volume lately- the 'new' feed is actually fertile ground if you scan through quickly.

9wzYQbTYsAIc
Google News, Hacker News, Local TV News, Local Print News
brador
Skimfeed and Reddit.
ZainRiz
Not HN though, right?
brador
Surprisingly no! Not for a few months, the content here (HN) just isn't what it used to be and i've easily replaced it with Skimfeed and selected Subreddits.

I check here maybe once a week now.

PAClearner
1. arxiv 2. nytimes [trying to quit] 3. reddit [trying to quit] 4. hackernews [trying to quit]

tbh I really like trying to minimize my browsing in the morning.

ZainRiz
How do you read through arxiv? I haven't see their equivalent of "popular" articles, which makes it really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff
epmaybe
I think you can select topics that you are specifically interested in, such as "neural networks". Then it shows relevant/recent articles.
PAClearner
https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent

from there I look for papers

1. Immediately relevant to my current interests 2. by people I who know write good papers.

For chaff-vs-wheat some of my friends use arxiv sanity?

to find popular articles I go to -google scholar page of someone well known for a topic and look at their highly cited papers -look at citations of highly cited papers

edit: just a warning-short term popularity of a scientific paper is almost surely not a good indicator of long term value.

etrevino
1. Scary Go Round

2. Facebook

3. Reddit

4. Hacker News

5. Google News

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godelmachine
[1]The Morning Paper by Adrian Colyer.

Nothing beats this blog. My Computer Science knowledge has improved by leaps & bounds because of this one website alone. University education has failed me, I sometimes wonder! Adrian Colyer is a machine, though lately he has toned it down. 3-4 review/ week.

[2] arXiv

Only the Hardware Architecture and Emerging Technologies part.

[1] → https://blog.acolyer.org/

[2] → https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/recent || https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/recent

PS → Not only brightens my morning, but brightens my day :)

hguhghuff
I used to always visit techmeme but it became almost exclusively focused on google Apple amazon Microsoft Facebook Netflix. I’m going to go have a look right now to see if that’s still true.
devhead
My Morning/Afternoon is usually this:

0. Compiled Security Alert RSS Feeds

1. Hacker News

2. Tech Dirt

3. AWS - What's new

4. Muck Rock

5. Pen Test Blog

6. dev.to

7. cso online

8. One random choice from my local news sites.

cm2012
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auroraixion
bemaniso.ws reddit.com youtube.com (my subscriptions) ebay.com stackoverflow.com siliconera.com
k0t0n0
> bemaniso.ws

is there a way to get in?

sheun
1. Hacker News 2. Hacker Day 3. News
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