Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

Re:Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN? by peatmoss on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:22PM (#21922669)

Yeah, I assumed the Twitter part was a joke. I can’t imagine a better way to feel horrible than Twitter. It’s definitely a platform for generating heat and very little light.

As for the news, I can understand the notion of a diet. I try and catch at least some of the PBS Newshour each day. It’s the closest thing I’ve found to unsensational, non-editorialized, old-fashioned reporting. If I’m pressed for time, I catch the news summary.

Truthfully, I consume a bit more reporting than just that, but when I start feeling overwhelmed, the PBS Newshour is my diet.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN? by craigjb on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @01:25PM (#21923158)

I actually have to disagree. I think it really depends on who you follow. For a long time I didn't use twitter at all, but I've recently become active.

The hardware hacker community (think Hackaday types) on Twitter is pretty awesome and a lot of fun to follow.

Stuff like the below comes through all the time, and the discussions with people making things are great.

https://twitter.com/MrRobotBadge/status/1212038632246251520 https://twitter.com/johndmcmaster/status/1211923709910376449 https://twitter.com/mifune/status/1168604582748073986

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