HN Alternatives: Where do you get your news & discussion?

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by danw • 17 years ago

4 6 17 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Apart from this site, where do you find interesting news & articles? And where do you go to discuss them?

danw• 17 years ago

(Answering myself to start, hope you find these resources interesting)

  * http://givemesomethingtoread.com/
  * Twitter - Friends share links that I like
  * Tumblr - As Twitter

The trouble however is discussing these links. Posting to news.yc doesn't always get upvoted, and when it does there isn't always interesting discussion and debate. Are there any alternatives?

unalone• 17 years ago

On the Tumblr IRC a month ago, one of the Tumblr founders hinted very strongly that I shouldn't make a forum for Tumblr users, because I wouldn't be able to compete with a core built-in forum system. I'm hoping that something comes of that. Since Givemesomethingtoread is run by that same founder, it would potentially be able to use the same forum system.

rscott• 17 years ago

I don't usually discuss real news on the internet, just with friends and family. I read digg occasionally, used to be really into it but it's just become infantile. I occassionally follow a link on Twitter, and get my news from Google News.

I get my tech news from TechCrunch, GigaOm, AllThingsD, AlleyInsider, Mashable, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

drenei• 17 years ago

Finding articles depends on the subject:

- I used to subscribe to a bunch of digg feeds, but over the past while have found digg better to skim over when I have a few moments (the noise is too much for my greader!)

- For politics I'm on http://memeorandum.com regularly along with bbc, nytimes, wsj & wpost. So far, the combination gives me enough view points from enough angles. I've paid some attention to http://commondreams.org - it has some great articles, but I need to get into it more.

- I also subscribe to a bunch of blogs in different subjects (some of the top: lifehacker, daring fireball, seth godin, techcrunch) both for the original content as well as the links to the rest of the web.

- And then to top that all off I'm spending more and more time on HN and I subscribe to the delicious hotlist feed.

As far as discussions go:

- I tend to discuss on the sites I'm on, if I feel my comment will help the discussion AND the discussion is valuable. Its mostly some blogs, and HN that I talk/comment on.

- A lot of discussions happen with people I know, via email or facebook or in person.

jamesbritt• 17 years ago

http://www.aldaily.com is quite good. No discussions, but plenty of diverse links about art, literature, and general cultural observations.

myav• 17 years ago

I'm interested mostly in programming news, so my list is pretty small (sites are listed in order of my preference):

1. news.ycombinator.com. The first news site to note is that one I was reading when saw this thread. 2. reddit.com 3. stackoverflow.com - Yeah, it isn't news site. I've mentioned it, because it can be used to find out comments to somewhat appeared by virtue of news. 4. dzone.com - It looks like nobody wants to discuss news on this site. Anyway, there are lots of useful links.

I'm going to extend this list by adding interesting sites which were mentioned anywhere with those ones.

HN Alternatives: Where do you get your news & discussion?

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