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

310 points by kodeshpa ↗ HN

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efader
alleyinsider.com feedly.com techmeme.com quora.com trendslate.com
IanMikutel
Techmeme - Great for the current tech news pulse and multiple sources gives balanced coverage w/ multiple viewpoints on any news topic at the moment.

Real books - a novel idea, I know.

phodo
reddit!
aymeric
What subreddits do you follow?
bobzimuta 

  offbeat
  truereddit
  philosophy 
  mensrights
  netsec
  sysadmin
  books
  coding
  design
  malefashionaadvice
  investing
  outdoors
  campingandhiking
  opendirectories
  technology
  android
  programming
  woahdude
  coding
  tldr
  unitedkingdom
  freethought
  interiordesign
  earthporn
  webcomics
phodo
my favorite is /r/iphone
johnswamps
Here are mine (minus the silly time wasting ones):

art, askscience, books, buddhism, cfb, coding (it's dead these days though), cooking, fitness, frugal, listentothis, lgbt, longtext, netsec, oney, philosophyofscience, scifi, skeptic, space, sports, starcraft, truereddit, twoxchromosomes,

user24
The best of mine:

/r/machinelearning

/r/javascript

/r/php

/r/coding

/r/programming

/r/askscience

machia
Same here. Now a days I just go to http://www.aggreddit.com for all my serious reddit needs..

programming

gamedev

linux

asm

C_Programming

cpp

cpudesign

embedded

gpgpu

hpc

coding

python

csbooks

compsci

Terry_B
So much less than I used to. I used to average something like 15000 read items a month in google reader.

Now just HN and Techmeme and I try to get on with getting things done.

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chanux
When I feel like I want to read something other than HN (which basically means I'm _looking_ for distractions) I know something is wrong with me.
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orijing
Quora is a great website to read. I participate a lot on it too, depending on whether I have project deadlines or finals coming up.

I also impulsively refresh Google News sometimes...

chmike
How can we get an invitation ? I can't even vote.
henry_flower
Any quora user can sent it (the invitation) to your email. If you are interested, I can do that.
loevborg
I'm interested. I already enjoy participating in stackexchange.com. Could you invite me? Sent me a message to (disposable) zqxeT9Cl5ilpoN7q@bloem.joliekemulder.nl and I'll reply with my real email address.

To stay on topic, I recommend non-tech sites: Language Log, The Satorialist and London Review of Books (all easily found using Google).

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ccu
Hello could you send me the invitation, please.
orijing
That's interesting... I just signed up using my Facebook account. Do you have a FB account?
rjvir
Twitter, Quora, and Reddit.
rkalla
Slashdot and Hacker Newwwwwever mind.

Also enjoy StackExchange reading material.

akkartik
In order of priority:

1. gmail. I still have a manageable amount of email, and I enjoy my inbox. My best conversations happen on it. I leave my inbox empty every night.

2. hacker news

3. arc forum and, recently, factor archives

4. google reader. I subscribe to 150 low-volume feeds that I want to read every last thing on. They generate about 25 articles a day.

5a. I intermittently read every single comment on HN for periods of time using http://hackerstream.com (disclosure: I built this with a friend)

5b. I intermittently scan high-volume feeds on http://readwarp.com (disclosure: my site)

My reading's gotten streamlined since I separated high-volume and low-volume sources in my mind (I even wrote a rant about this epiphany: http://akkartik.name/blog/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc). High volume sources are all in 5 above, and as new ones come up I'll build specialized tools for them.

bvi
+1 for HackerStream. Looks excellent!
kodeshpa
Anyone else is in for StackOverflow ??
wyclif
TechMeme, StackOverflow, Quora, and Twitter. As for "old media" online, I like The Economist, WSJ, and Financial Times.
apas
Hacker News, Techmeme, Slashdot, Twitter, Reddit/r/funny (so much fun, check it out).

I tried to follow Quora but couldn't figure out the UI (I'll try again after 5/23 because I'm very pressured by school right now).

I do check out GigaOM, very good content. Also Engadget sometimes and iPhoneDownloadBlog.com.

I stopped reading TechCrunch & Mashable.

woan
Old media WSJ and nytimes...
yalogin
I used to be on reddit constantly but after I found hacker news I am losing interest in reddit and now actually get work done.