HACKER Q&A
📣 ButterWashed

What other news sources do you use?


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.


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

👤 robtherobber
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/


👤 ronronron09
Excluding tools you use at work - Reuters Eikon, Bloomberg, Factset. Let's make this a thread that adds value to everyone reading it. Reader's Digest also seems to be a decent resource according to these reviews https://readers-digest.pissedconsumer.com/review.html

1: Barrons 2: Financial Times 3: Economist 4: Bloomberg 5: Foreign Policy 6: Foreign Affairs 7: WSJ/NY Times (switch off every now and then so essentially interchangeable, NY Times has a broader focus, WSJ is more focused on the markets and business. I get a lot of business and markets news elsewhere, so the NY Times is usually my preferred option.)


👤 jasonvorhe
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)


👤 pasabagi
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.

👤 busymom0
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


👤 kgiddens1
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.


👤 jxocean
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.

👤 jbpnoy6fifty
I enjoy News News News on Clubhouse by @andrewlee. It’s on every morning at 7:30am-8:30am PDT

👤 flerp
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_
Hacker News & Lobste.rs

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

👤 blackcats
tuxurls.com