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Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by chrisweekly on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:34PM (#28633238)
Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by chrisweekly on Friday September 24, 2021 @08:26AM (#28641411)
Also fark.com and drudgereport.com

... and for the record, per the OP's request, these are examples of news aggregation sites, not necessarily recommendations.

Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by ramraj07 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:32PM (#28634910)
Have you visited boing boing in the last few years? It’s literal cancer.
Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by MerelyMortal on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:08PM (#28635429)
I used to visit it regularly until about a decade ago, but I felt too many of the posts were unnecessarily getting too political.
Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by MerelyMortal on Thursday September 23, 2021 @09:09PM (#28637533)
I just checked out their website. It looks vastly different. It used to be mostly technical posts, and the logo even had a girl in overalls turning a wrench.

The types of posts look like it has greatly changed over the years. I'm curious as to why I was downvoted. I understand why the other person was downvoted ("literal cancer"). Oh well.

Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by ramraj07 on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:53PM (#28645692)
When I visited it last time, they tried to sell me a 100 dollar virus scanner app for my iPhone [1] so yeah I wasn’t exaggerating much. I’d much rather have Hodgkins Lymphoma than that site lol.

https://boingboing.net/2021/09/19/clean-up-your-storage-on-y...

Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by chrisweekly on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:34PM (#28637305)
wtf is wrong with you. Do you know anyone with literal cancer? Use different words.
Re:Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators asid... by ramraj07 on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:44PM (#28645591)
Language evolves. Literal clearly doesn’t just mean what literal literally meant a few decades back. It’s especially poetic when you’re using it in jest. Get over it?

Also who doesn’t know someone with cancer? 1 in 3 dies of it. Except for kids dying of brain cancer I don’t see what’s especially horrendous about it. As a matter of fact I’d much rather die of cancer than a brain aneurysm. Give me time to set my things in order?