- https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day)
Local:
- https://publicola.com (20/month)
- https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month)
- https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month)
- https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month)
- https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month)
- https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month)
- https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day)
Tech:
- https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week)
- https://this-week-in-rust.org (1/week)
- https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix (1/week)
- https://discourse.nixos.org/top (5/day)
Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day).
https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://restofworld.org/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://pudding.cool/ https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire
The feeds themselves are mostly random subreddits, Hypebeast, some NYTimes sections, etc.
It works a lot better than manually going to each website and browsing around looking for new content.
They take a headline and present an article from different 3 news sources. The 3 sources will include left leaning, right leaning and more neutral new organizations so you get a perspective from all sides.
This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
Namely, I think one of the worst "features" in RSS readers is "tracking whether or not you've read every single little thing with numbers," so I wrote mine to just leave all that out and give me the top 20 or so of the day. If I miss anything, SO WHAT.
Run by the tireless Tara Calishain. Covers the world of search engines, archives, social media, online information collections, and other interesting stuff. She's been running the site 1998. Not many sites like this around much these days.
I probably lack some worthwhile cultural hinterland due to HN's liberal but sciencey remit. Arts & Letters Daily would be a good addition.
But there's nothing that really feels of comparable value for me personally and I've tried many of the options that are suggested here and have been before in these kinds of threads.
I’ve been getting my daily news recap from 1440. It keeps to the claim of unbiased summaries and is the length I’ve been looking for.
Electronics (diy): https://hackaday.com/blog/
They banned me on their forums after I said hello, so the moderation is a bit questionable. Content is good though.
https://www.axios.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://www.futurity.org/
To customize it for your zip code, add your zip code to the end, like this: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210
You can also make a shortcut for that personalized zip code link.
If you just want text weather, that is available too: https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210
Most surprisingly, this is an entirely static page and has no dependencies. You could download the HTML file and it would still fetch the news feeds and weather! No tracking!
It actually works better than HN as you don't get distracted by all the hypes or up/down-voting drama (you can also add the HN feed).
Brave also has a newsfeed that's tempting to switch over to.
I used to love reading the news on Facebook, but not anymore. It's all agendas and people with axes to grind.
and Twitter etc
I've also set up a page so other people can see my subscriptions / what I'm reading: https://sources.werd.io
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
When I find an interesting personal website there I add it to my Telegram RSS feed notifier (@feedzbot), which notifies me twice a day with their new posts. At this point I have 50+ feeds there so the feed is pretty long.
If someone wants an invite, let me know by email (see profile).
Another way of getting news is an old fashioned newspaper. Being able to leaf through it lets you see headlines and quickly scan an article to see if it's interesting compared to clicking around on the web. I actually find it a fairly nice way to see lots of different things.
There are many things in the newspaper that are interesting to read that I likely wouldn't have clicked on if I saw the title in some news feed.
It is an excellent jumping off point!
Here's an incomplete list of the pages which I check on a daily basis.
Tech:
https://lobste.rs/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://inside.java/
Art: https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/
News: https://www.spiegel.de/ (mainly, but others too!)
Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama or similar in the main stream news before it shows up on HN - usually stories I end up finding in both turn up on HN first.
That's all I read - no social media or anything, too much noise, costs too much time. I'm just trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my country, the world and my field. Used to read Slashdot and others for the latter, but lately I noticed HN has pretty much everything I find relevant (and the odd delightful oddity, my favourites).
The rest are RSS feeds of blogs and other sources picked by myself.
And remember slashdot.com?
It's mainly focused on economics and geopolitics, from a leftist perspective.