I don't think it counts as a news feed but I do enjoy browsing the hackaday.com. It's a bit hit and miss on the content but sometimes there are quite interesting projects on there.
I adore hackaday, but it makes me immensely sad that I'm not working more on homebrew robotics / hardware stuff. I've been working in robotics for almost 15 years and could probably put out some nice kits / tutorials if I took the time.
I actually found Hacker News through https://brutalist.report/ . Nice conglomeration of headlines/links from lots of different sources. Lots of tech and science, but also a good mix of global news.
Thanks for sharing this. I've got their point about keeping the website as simple as possible using HTML, CSS and no JS, but hey, why not make an exception around UI theming? I'd love to see it in a sepia background color and serif types. That black BG with a blue sans type is doing evil to my retina.
Thanks a lot for sharing this, I've been procrastinating doing an aggregated news feed with the simplest html possible for years and seeing this live just made me happy. Thank you!
Unfortunately I don't since I got heavily downvoted for posting a Crypto Tutorial I made. It wasn't scam or anything, just a func little tutorial on how to create your own crypto coin.
Ashamed to say still Slashdot, have it in my RSS, old habits die hard. Otherwise various reddit subs since people are quick to post breaking news in whatever field I'm interested in. Then a bunch of newspapers/sources from around the world to try and get a balanced overview of things.
I kept going for way too long before shifting to hn. The comments on slashdot were so adversarial that whatever you post expect to be called an idiot. Plus having to scroll past the ASCII art swastika every day got to me and I wouldn't want my wife looking over my shoulder.
I ran a forum that pinned a link collection. They need maintenance and they’re not always things that everyone agrees on. Sporadic threads where everyone posts are a lot easier to interpret and don’t require maintenance.
I forgot about slashdot.org because for a while all the frontpage links were found on HN in a nicer format. Lately however, they have had complementary content, which is nice.
I still really appreciate their moderation system. It ain't perfect but you occasionally see highly moderated opposing viewpoints which is difficult to achieve.
Understandable yes, but it has reached the point of unnecessary dog piling. Ars also stokes the flames by featuring as many Elon headlines as possible, and they aren't particularly objective.
Marginalrevolution is a good blog, covering current affairs, economics, finance and technology issues. One of the posters, Tyler Cowen, is great at aggregating and summarising information and it’s a combination of links and quite short thought pieces that get posted daily.
Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free.
Scrolling through that pudding site, right away I notice the tell tale sign of midwit misconception.
- a story makes claims about women in the news, without any controls or comparison to men (i.e. it's useless)
- a story presents one of those toy economic models about random trades between people, not realizing they are complete nonsense with zero predictive power
This is just what I notice on a first visit. It's extremely well produced nonsense.
I really wish more blogs took on this creative approach. it's hard but such an excellent presentation style. IMO it's the best form of sharing information online
Possibly not what you're asking since it's nothing like HN, but the other two sites I constantly check for news are theguardian.com and spiegel.de (because I'm German).
Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama or similar in the main stream news before it shows up on HN - usually stories I end up finding in both turn up on HN first.
That's all I read - no social media or anything, too much noise, costs too much time. I'm just trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my country, the world and my field. Used to read Slashdot and others for the latter, but lately I noticed HN has pretty much everything I find relevant (and the odd delightful oddity, my favourites).
For general world news&commentary I've chosen Axios and The Conversation. For the quick&dirty pulse check on tech/science trends or rumors - Futurism and Futurity.
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
https://lobste.rs
https://www.theregister.com/
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news
If someone wants an invite, let me know by email (see profile).
Sadly, doesn't work w/o javascript...
https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://restofworld.org/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://pudding.cool/ https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire
- a story makes claims about women in the news, without any controls or comparison to men (i.e. it's useless)
- a story presents one of those toy economic models about random trades between people, not realizing they are complete nonsense with zero predictive power
This is just what I notice on a first visit. It's extremely well produced nonsense.
They’re cute little stories with decent presentation, not the economist.
Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama or similar in the main stream news before it shows up on HN - usually stories I end up finding in both turn up on HN first.
That's all I read - no social media or anything, too much noise, costs too much time. I'm just trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my country, the world and my field. Used to read Slashdot and others for the latter, but lately I noticed HN has pretty much everything I find relevant (and the odd delightful oddity, my favourites).
https://www.axios.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://www.futurity.org/
https://renewablesnow.com/