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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.

I like an very simple approach, which allows me to avoid using password managers.

For all accounts which are of little importance to me (in other words, for ones which can be recreated without any problems) I have got the one easy-to-remember password. "foo87b@r" is the good illustration of what I mean. There are two simple words, separated by a number, and one special symbol. It's very easy to commit in your memory, doesn't look easy to brute force.

But what if there is a malefactor which knows your universal password? If so, you are in trouble. He has all the keys to your e-money, mailbox...

To protect things that matters I'm using unique passwords made on basis of the general pattern. It will prevent your accounts from being accessed using the insecure "foo87b@r" pass.

To illustrate that, suppose that our patter is: __&_1_H@ckN!ws (placeholders for further substitutions are marked by "_")

Let's generate password for the [n]ew[s].[y]combinato[r].com site (which characters of url are used when generating password is up to the user).

Here is your secure password: ns&y1rH@ckN!ws

So, to use it you should be able to remember one simple password, one pattern and the princible describing how to get new passwords from the existing pattern + URL.

I've been using this scheme for the last two months.