Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why?

Posted by michaelawill on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:03PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Lifehacker and Ars Technica are my current favorites. Always looking for a few more good information sources to add to my chrome bookmark bar :)

I'm sure there are a ton of great news sites out there that I've never seen, I really can't stand major news sites that use a huge amount of their screen real estate for advertisements and navigation bars.

What are your favorites?

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by mbrubeck on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:31PM (#690289)

I read a number of "Planet" blog aggregators run by specific organizations or projects or individuals, e.g.:

http://planet.gnome.org/

http://planet.debian.org/

http://planet.mozilla.org/

http://planet.intertwingly.net/ (Sam Ruby's personal reading list)

They have an interesting mix of code-related news and personal blog posts.

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by _giu on Monday July 06, 2009 @04:35PM (#690399)

I like to read Heise Online (http://www.heise.de). I have to mention that Heise Online is written in german and an english version exists at http://www.heise.de/english/. But the official english version of Heise Online is called The H (which belongs to Heise Media UK Ltd.): http://www.h-online.com/ .

I especially like (and recommend) the security section of Heise Online (http://www.heise.de/security/), which is also available on The H for english readers: http://www.h-online.com/security/ .

now, the other sites I read on a regular base are:

http://reddit.com/r/programming (I know you saw that one coming)

http://reddit.com/r/haskell

http://reddit.com/r/ruby

... and some other subreddits.

I can recommend you to search for other technical subreddits at http://www.reddit.com/reddits/ that match your interests.

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by frossie on Monday July 06, 2009 @04:32PM (#690391)

I monitor the World News RSS feed from guardian.co.uk - just to remind myself there is a world out there. They also have a very nice iPhone interface to their website, and the real website is very light on ads.

Otherwise it's HN and Ars Technica.

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by vaksel on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:18PM (#690262)

The only original source I read is techcrunch. Everything else I get through links found on technology/programming subreddits, hackernews, and a few forums

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by jm4 on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:42PM (#690311)

That goes without saying. You post literally every TechCrunch article here.

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by vaksel on Monday July 06, 2009 @05:00PM (#690445)

Nah just the interesting ones. The auto-submit makes it easy to do

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by brlewis on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:28PM (#690282)

I use http://friendfeed.com/ for crowdsourced, or more accurately, friendsourced news.

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by sirfrancisbacon on Monday July 06, 2009 @11:34PM (#690852)

Hacker News and Reddit for everything, pretty much; I enjoy reddit's programming section.

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by yan on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:13PM (#690255)

hacker news / newmogul is pretty much where I find the majority of my news these days. If it's important and relevant enough, it'll probably be here.

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Re:Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? by michaelawill on Monday July 06, 2009 @03:38PM (#690303)

Checked out Newmogul. Love it. I really love the arc layout. Very little wasted space.

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