Ask HN: What's your web routine? which sites etc. do you frequent besides HN?
Every day, I'm rotating between a german blog (Fefe), HN and reddit. I can't stand twitter or instagram, but feel like I'm missing out on interesting content - other blogs, people worth following, maybe news outside of tech.
What's your web routine?
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Occasionally eurogamer for game reviews.
Arstechnica.
I too try and avoid sites like twitter, reddit etc.
Never use Facebook.
Be nice if their was a site where you can say I'm interested in closure, lisp, type theory etc and get recommendations on curated blogs to follow.
But in the early I remember I used to feel smarter having read something on Ars.
Now it's all PR and movie reviews :-/
Maybe Conde Nast happened.
I do also regularly hit up CNBC because I think they do a great job of covering world news and big moves in tech and I check my GitHub recommendations on a fairly regular basis.
I would love more “small HN” stuff - neat projects, old articles/blog posts, and generally just normal people.
the player aid, war on the rocks, foreign policy
scripting.com, daring fireball
le monde, el pais, financial times
psyche.co, long reads
Infuriatingly, there aren't a lot of options for other topics.
In addition to those, I often read from the articles listed on my browser extension https://daily.dev/. They have cool developer-first articles
Hackaday for interesting usually hardware projects. But a lot of articles are covering stuff from a few days earlier.
I try to stay away from Reddit for the most part.
I have an RSS feed of mostly AI and Tech blogs from big companies. I could probably curate it some more.
Now that I think of it it has not really been a conscious choice to browse so little. It just happened over the span of a few months. I used to spend hours on reddit/twitch and local news sites, bingewatch tv shows but it looks like I don't care anymore about all that stuff and I like it much better this way. I'm either sitting at my desktop working for work/sideprojects, or I'm away from all screens playing guitar, being outside etc.
old.reddit.com/r/all
linkedIn
news.ycombinator.com
lite.cnn.io
darksky
[0] readsomethinginteresting.com
Various sub-reddits for other types of news and info (e.g. r/soccer)
Not a web routine, but general routine: I try to make time to read books.
I follow a handful of interesting people via Twitter.
All the rest I consume via RSS — I follow about 380 feeds at the moment. I use Miniflux.app as backend (hosted plan), Reeder on my phone and NetNewsWire on my Mac.
- Wikipedia
- Aeon.co
- Quanta Magazine
- FT / Bloomberg / WSJ start pages
HN and stack exchange are the only forums I read frequently. Reddit has much lower average quality.
The way news sites / digg / reddit / twitter / you name it seem to be designed is many headlines compete for attention and each is trying to catch your eye and deliver a take home message in the title. I truly think the intent is to deliver a message and hope the reader doesn't dive in to learn about it. That feeds a gratification loop, even before you throw propaganda and shilling in.
Certainly this forum isn't immune either and I notice it in topics relevant to my field but outside tech (which is not my area). "Lowering sodium intake doesn’t help heart patients" from the other day comes to mind with its biting take on a question that is clinically irrelevant for most people unless they are considering tighter sodium control but hey, the title leaves a nice impression if you skim and feeds into some crazy opinions if you already have them.
I've resubscribed to some paper magazines to be able to enjoy them over a cup of coffee to over come this and use a service to send large articles to my kindle. I keep meaning to find a way to integrate it with wallabag.
Long-forms like the Economist's take a few steps back from the day-to-day news and try to give you an overview of a topic. That's what I'm interested in. You have to make the difference between the author's opinion and the facts because most of the Economist's pieces are actually op-eds, but that's better than reading re-hashed PR releases all day long.
Maybe try Le Monde Diplomatique. They're more critical towards globalization and free exchange, but even if you don't agree with them, their articles always dig deep and leave you knowing the subject. They even have English translations for some articles. Recommended by a history teacher some years ago and I haven't been disappointed.
Mediapart is also interesting for French politics. They discovered quite a lot of scandals that made headlines everywhere afterwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediapart#Landmark_investigati...
It follows HN in principle in that it is:
1) curated, not by my "interests", or clicks, or browser history, but proper moderation (and puns!)
and 2) doesn't do the ajaxy infinity-load content.
It seems to be impossible to have a quality news source that is both algorithmic and never-ending.