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47 pointsButterWashed5y ago30 comments

I've always felt pretty good about leaning on HN and Reddit for tech related news. As a SysAdmin some of the Reddit subs have been pretty decent for me in the past for getting news and opinions about AWS, RedHat, Python etc. But as I've gained more experience they seem quite repetitive and centred around people getting started and/or people getting certifications.

So where else do people look for general tech news? I'm pretty open to anything and as someone who is hoping to pivot more towards development and automation anything along those lines would be valuable.

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kgiddens15y ago· 4 in thread

https://daily.dev/ I believe you will enjoy this :)

It's an extension that promotes great news from the dev community. In their words: PROGRAMMING NEWS RANKED BY DEVELOPERS Get the hottest coding news from the best tech blogs on any topic you can think of. Stay updated daily, and unlock more time to do fun stuff, relax, or just code.

That video is very well/professionally made but without seeing the content I'm not going to install it

type05y ago

Beside being yet another browser extension, somehow the tagline: "There is magic in a New Tab" seriously turns me off.

danielscrubs5y ago

That they don’t dare show their content speaks mountains.

htk5y ago

Why does it need to be an extension instead of just a website?

hknapp5y ago· 3 in thread

Not tech, but I have set my firefox home to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

recov5y ago

https://legiblenews.com/ is a nice slimmed down version if you just want the news and not wikipedia

galfarragem5y ago

These news are just unsugared trivia. Most news presented there are irrelevant for the global population.

HH_GU5y ago

sounds reasonable...

busymom05y ago· 3 in thread

Other than HN, Lobste.rs is good too for non-tech stuff:

https://lobste.rs

As for non-HN type news, I have pretty much stopped following establishment media completely (even non political stuff) and got paid subscriptions to Glenn Greenwald, Viva Frei and Robert Barnes, Steven Crowder mug club and give support to independent creators and journalists like Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Michael Tracey, Alison Morrow, Sharyl Attkinson. Catherine Herridge & Tucker are good too - though I don’t watch them often anymore as I don’t want to support any establishment media. I have gone as far as to install ad blocker and pi-hole and share archive.is links to avoid giving them money and clicks. I support people I like with actual subscriptions by setting aside around $250 per year.

Glenn Greenwald’s Substack

https://greenwald.substack.com

Viva Frei & Robert Barnes law related Locals and YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/VivaFrei/videos

https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com

Alison Morrow Locals:

https://alisonmorrow.locals.com

The American Conservative:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com

Crowder:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StevenCrowder/videos

gaws5y ago

> Glenn Greenwald’s Substack

GG is a shadow of his former self. A true shame that a once intrepid reporter now only writes about cancel culture and leftists, and people are willing to throw money at him for it.

His reporting over last 2 years has resulted in exposing the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil and getting the previous President out of prison:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-new-book-on-journalism-e...

And his reporting on cancel culture and media elitism is exactly what's needed in today's day and age.

tomcam5y ago

He's blossomed. I disagree with him politically most of the time but he actually supports free speech and reporting facts. He's also a hero in Brazilian politics who could very well die for his reporting. I am thrilled to support him and canceled my subscription to the Intercept when they canceled him.

jbpnoy6fifty5y ago· 3 in thread

I enjoy News News News on Clubhouse by @andrewlee. It’s on every morning at 7:30am-8:30am PDT

bfostbfostbfost5y ago

Maybe this is a dumb question, but how would I score a clubhouse invite? Sorry for the question that doesn’t contribute to conversation. But I keep seeing interesting things mentioned on clubhouse.

skinnymuch5y ago

Clubhouse gives invites to current members fairly liberally. Checked your comment history. You can email me if you want one (somewhere in my profile bio) I think I have to invite you with a phone number of yours though.

skinnymuch5y ago

Interesting. I’ll check it out. Too bad it can’t be a daily or regular thing. A bit late for east coast.

robtherobber5y ago· 1 in thread

Not exacrtly tech oriented, but technology is often addressed as a fully-fledged topic:

Boston Review: https://bostonreview.net/

Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/

Eurozine: https://www.eurozine.com/

Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/

London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/

Quartz: https://qz.com/featured/

Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/

ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/

The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/world/

The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/international

The Hedgehog Review: https://hedgehogreview.com/

The MIT Press Reader: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/

The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/

The New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/

The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/

WIRED UK: https://www.wired.co.uk/

jasonvorhe5y ago

Lots of great recommendations, thanks so much! I was missing The Hedgehog Review, The New Republic, Eurozine, Boston Review and Columbia Journalism Review. Highly appreciated. Just on their title pages alone I found a big selection of interesting topics for my Pocket collection!

jasonvorhe5y ago

Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/

Palladium Magazine: https://palladiummag.com/

Tablet Mag: https://www.tabletmag.com/

Republik: https://www.republik.ch/ (German/Swiss)

EUObserver: https://euobserver.com/

Blätter: https://www.blaetter.de/ (German)

TheLocal: https://www.thelocal.de/ (German news in English)

Jacobin Mag: https://jacobinmag.com/

Der Standard: https://www.derstandard.de/ (German)

I like Novara Media, for UK politics stuff, but also very interesting interviews. They have a quite wide range of interviewees, from a surprisingly broad political spectrum (that goes from somewhere in the center to the far left), and the hosts are charming, intelligent, and always well prepared.

I am a fan of Wired magazine, not only the hardcopy, but their on line article seem to capture a viewpoint that is not in HN or Reddit.

flerp5y ago

Bbc.co.uk or svtnyheter.se for news. RSS For tech blogs / software release pages. Got tired of medium and the likes of it a long time ago.

max_5y ago

Hacker News & Lobste.rs

JavaWorld and The Register are decent go-tos for me.

blackcats5y ago

tuxurls.com

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