HACKER Q&A
📣 gilbetron

In-depth sites for various industries' news?


During the ship-stuck-in-the-canal days, I was introduced to freightwaves.com, and another HN post along the line introduced me to mining.com. What are some interesting, in-depth sites similar to those but for other industries? Like for solar, wind, and nuclear, for instance? I can google them, but I like hearing recommendations from people that are in the industry!


  👤 eli Accepted Answer ✓
We run a network of news sites for executives in various industries. They’re free to read without registration:

Waste & Recycling - https://www.wastedive.com/

Electric Utility - https://www.utilitydive.com/

Marketing - https://www.marketingdive.com/

And dozens more. Full list at https://www.industrydive.com/publications



👤 kaveet
The Aviation Herald for great coverage on commercial aviation news and incidents.

Their incident breakdowns are a lesson in clear technical communication—I highly recommend checking them out even if you’re not into aviation.

https://avherald.com/


👤 rubidium
Biotech industry: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/

Biotech how-tos: https://bitesizebio.com/



👤 defrost
For many years, and likely still today, the most in depth site for mining events (all 'facts', zero editorial) was what is now the S&P subscription service:

Metals & Mining: Global Market Intelligence

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

if that's your sphere of interest it's worth a trial - it logged every global mineral lease detail change and summarised every public market release ( change of board, acquisition of sub company, financial report, tech report, above threshold share assignments, etc ) for global mineral companies across Australia, Canada, South Africa, South America, (and the smaller US minerals market) etc stock exchanges with semi decent (former) USSR | Chinese coverage and bound it together with GIS, timelines, etc.

I'm no longer affiliated (for more than a decade) .. but it was a source for mining.com stories and heavily used by serious investors.

( all 'facts' .. it's a demonstrably provable fact that Company XYZ released a statement on the Toronto TSX stating the aquisition of leases 150 km NW of CrazyGully, Novada, and a similarly provable fact that former owner DEF-Co released a Technical Report with listed sample results.

It may later become a fact that the authors of that Technical Report fudged some numbers .. these are all facts and all reported | timelined.

We never stated that Ground X had resources Y - only the reported history of who reported what and what third parties did the work, etc )


👤 alephnerd
The sources below are almost entirely submarine articles, but that's how trends arise. Remember hearing about ransomware attacks in the news? That was a purposeful choice a group of Cybersecurity companies chose to begin drumming up from 2019 onwards.

Govt Specific:

Government Tech Acquisition - https://www.nextgov.com/

GSA Specific - https://www.govexec.com/

DoD Policy and Acquisition - https://www.defenseone.com/

SLED Acquisition - https://www.route-fifty.com/

Hill specific stuff (ignore Magazine, Opinion, and Personal Profile articles, those are all submarine articles) - https://www.politico.com/

Cybersecurity Industry:

DarkReading (almost entirely submarine articles, but a good way to get a pulse on upcoming cybersecurity trends) - https://www.darkreading.com/

SDxCentral (same as darkreading, but better brand) - https://www.sdxcentral.com/

Media/News:

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

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


👤 mikewarot
If you're interesting in making gears, there's Gear Technology magazine: https://www.geartechnology.com/

Electronics Design News, EDN is a publication of long standing: https://www.edn.com/


👤 awillen
Substack is a really, really good place for this. I don't remember how I found https://paxtier.substack.com/, but it's a great source of news on algae + seaweed technology/science.

https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/ for AI

https://www.parentdata.org/ for studies related to all things parenting

https://blog.jatan.space/ for space (especially moon-related) stuff

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/ for Covid/general epidemiology news


👤 bloggie
In optics:

Laser Focus World by Endeavour Media, the company also offers paid market studies. https://www.laserfocusworld.com

Photonics Media, also have great webinars. https://www.photonics.com

Photonics Focus, the magazine of SPIE, freely downloadable. https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/novdec-2022

Optics and Photonics News (OPN) by Optica (formerly OSA) https://www.optica-opn.org/home/

There are many others but these are the biggest ones that I read and are not too specific to any one application or industry.


👤 permanent
Financial reports and news of companies and stocks (mostly US, I think), focusing on values and fundamentals. I found other similar sites to be too much about short term trends and technical analysis.

https://marketinference.com


👤 coreycr
American Federation of Musicians: https://www.afm.org/

Unionized musicians that work most Broadway-style shows, orchestras, operas and professional recording operations (jingles, film, etc…)


👤 blamazon
Also related to marine industry:

https://gcaptain.com/

https://container-news.com/


👤 bitxbitxbitcoin
Shameless plug but if you are interested in going in-depth on the latest in the cannabis industry:

https://Thehighestcritic.com

(Disclosure: I founded The Highest Critic)


👤 msadowski
Shameless plug: I hope my technical robotics newsletter would hit a spot for you: https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/

👤 zenmacro

👤 ccozan
https://oilprice.com/ - for oil industry/energy and not only, really informative

👤 ewilderj
This is a great chance to give a shout-out to the Trade Journal Cooperative https://www.tradejournalcooperative.com/ -- not web sites, but it actually delivers paper magazines from interesting industry verticals. Everything from bowling alleys to semiconductors. Also, the covering letter from the editor is wryly observed and usually witty.

👤 mdorazio
Automotive News for... automotive news: https://www.autonews.com/

👤 flobosg
Biotech and pharma: https://www.statnews.com/

👤 joedavison
Domain name industry https://circleid.com/

👤 lofatdairy
Posting Becker's since it hasn't been posted yet: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/

I think there are a few more healthcare-industry specific publications that escape my mind right now, but Becker's is pretty comprehensive.


👤 aml183
I run Payload. We are a media company that covers the space industry. We only cover the business and policy of the space industry.

You can read our daily newsletter here: https://payloadspace.com/


👤 cgb223
To follow up with a more specific question,

Anyone know a good industry news site for Supply Chain related news?

I’ve been trying to understand how the global supply chain works better, the reasons it’s still pretty jacked up, and most importantly, what is currently being done about it


👤 nyc_data_geek1
NASA Tech Briefs have been maintaining a really high standard on this type of stuff for a long time, in a variety of specialities.

https://www.techbriefs.com/


👤 GoRudy
Adventure motorcycles & the motorcycle industry - https://www.advrider.com/

👤 mooneater
Ag and food tech industry news: https://agfundernews.com (disclosure: I work for Agfunder)

👤 bjelkeman-again
Aquaculture (European Focus)

https://www.fishfarmermagazine.com/


👤 legulere

👤 Scoundreller
And Http://www.histalk2.Com for health information systems

(Why won’t HN make you a clickable URL????)


👤 tguvot
for everything telecom related https://www.lightreading.com/

👤 enos_feedler
travel: skift.com

I use this for trading/market insights. A lot of stock traders and investors use industry specific sites.


👤 moneywoes
Any go tos for real estate?