HN user
If you want to go straight to the site it's http://kernest.com/.
(Not sure if it's bad form to post a direct link to another developer's project, in case they might want to post it later themselves.)
His site has different priorities than a newspaper, but I've always been fond of Khoi Vinh's titles on http://subtraction.com, which have been consistently good even since before he started working at the NYT.
The notion that Twitter seems safer than MySpace or Facebook is pretty silly, or at least would be difficult to prove. Twitter appeals to celebrities because it is the first popular social network that allows for celebrity within its system. Oprah, for example, has 603,791 followers but in turn only follows 11 people (all of whom are recognizable by the public). This is the celebrity's dream come true: their popularity measured and laid bare for all to see.