HACKER Q&A
📣 dope

Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?


Honestly the more random the better


  👤 mdwalters Accepted Answer ✓

👤 blumomo
German investigative journalist, on his Telegram channel: https://t.me/oliverjanich


👤 mjamesaustin
I keep updated on global news from Democracy Now, hosted by Amy Goodman. She's an incredibly thorough, tough, and fair reporter and investigative journalist.

https://www.democracynow.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman


👤 aeze
I'm sure it's not perfect but I've solely been using https://www.newsminimalist.com recently and have been happy with it

Otherwise, https://www.allsides.com


👤 motohagiography
I like how I won't admit in public where I get my news.

👤 s_Hogg
Hacker News, no joke

👤 karlello
Dozens of alternative news sites outside the influence of western mainstream media, to certainly include the insulting and brain-dead browser/BigTech news feeds. Anywhere BUT the MSM.

👤 scktt
news.com.au; unfortunately out of habit and ease of access. it's really not a good source for anything meaningful, and alot of the "stories" are tiktok copy paste bs, but i havent the musclememory to type in abcnews.com.au instead.

👤 confd

👤 ctoth
Several years ago I signed up for Stratfor and I don't hate it. I feel like I read about stuff there a couple days before everywhere else, and less breathlessly. Of course very little focus on the Domestic US stuff (which is an upside for me.)

I don't read it every day though, just 2-3 times a week.

https://stratfor.com


👤 legitster
My local paper still does a good job of covering a variety of topics fairly and non-partisanly. Albeit it a day late and with paper-thin coverage. However, their staff has been cut so razor thin that most of the articles are from syndication.

I read Money Stuff from Matt Levine everyday, if for no other reason than it's a good read.

And if you want random, Peter Zeihan has been posting videos daily where he goes into depth on a geopolitical news topic a day. SUPER fraught, but highly informative.

News in general is usually very low-quality across the board these days. There are very few local beat reporters anymore, and nearly every major paper ditched their foreign bureau. Everything has been replaced with shared wire services so there is no corroboration of stories. If there is even a story - for the most part, all we are getting is official government press releases, press conferences, and random collections of anecdotes.


👤 fluidcruft
HN had a story about ground news a few years ago and particularly the blindspot sounded intriguing. I subscribed and like it so that's what I read daily. It tends to not get much local news though. I also listen to news podcasts while commuting (particularly podcasts by local journalists).

👤 tashian
Not every day, but I appreciate the global tech perspective of https://restofworld.org

👤 randomNumber7
reuters.com

Most newspaper copy from there anyways and at least they dont bring their own opinion into every articly. In private tab you can read endless articles without an account.


👤 trackone


👤 newcomber
https://brutalist.report/

Aggregated headlines from a variety of websites with a minimalist design.


👤 simonblack
I strive to obtain as world-wide a coverage as possible. Obviously from one side or the other, some of those will be classed as 'propaganda'. But most of the biases tend to cancel out and give a fairly even point of view in the end.

If I read every word in all those sites it would take me hours. But I scan the headlines and read only the pages that catch my interest.


👤 bluenose69

👤 mindcrime
I assume you mean "besides aggregators", so no need to mention HN, Slashdot, Google News, Reddit, etc?

If so, I'm not sure there is any dedicated news site I visit every day, but one that comes pretty close would be wral.com. That's a local news site for my area, and if nothing else, I'm on there to check the weather quite often, so I can plan my bicycling activities for the next few days. Plus they report on all of the general local news that I have at least a mild interest in.


👤 pupppet
I wish there was an HN for non-tech local/world news. And if someone can just go ahead and clone dang to moderate this new site that’d be great.

👤 sys_64738
I stick with BBC, Guardian and NewsNow.co.uk

👤 mcquintrix
I think twitter or X is still very good to get latest updates .. obviously lot of propaganda too but if you are trained enough to spot propaganda you kind of filter it out .. but don't open it more than 10-15 minutes to stay away from all twitter dramas .. place is still cesspool like our world

👤 bradydjohnson
Axios.com

👤 stn8188
Life is so busy these days but I like to keep tabs on the biggest headlines. I've been subscribed to 1440 for maybe a year and love it. I basically can just skim the world events while brushing my teeth in the morning, and there are links if I feel like reading more. It's a nice format that leaves no guilt if I miss it for the day. I'm also quite happy with its lack of bias: there are a couple of extremely subtle hints of bias but generally it's kept as "facts-only" as possible.

https://join1440.com/


👤 walmart
I google a term of interest, then simply check out the related news for the past 24 hours. Don't really care about the source as I consider all news to be entertainment.

The following are posted on HN quite a bit (I find them the most entertaining):

NYT,The Guardian, BBC, Bloomberg, The WSJ, South China Morning Post, Financial Times, WaPo, The Diplomat, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, Reuters, AP News, Radio Free Europe(google spits this one out when you search for Russia, Central Asia/Eastern Europe), The Hill etc


👤 MollyRealized
newsminimalist.com

Also almanac.com, scrolling down to the 'Calendar' heading.


👤 beej71
Not news proper. I have a pile of programming-related RSS feeds I follow, including HN. And some fun hashtags on Mastodon (like astronomy, geology, history, etc.)

If something is newsworthy, it makes it through one of those sources. I follow a subreddit for my town, as well, to get local info.

Someone here on HN asked what actions someone has taken based on the last 10,000 news articles they've read. I realized I couldn't name one, so decided news was a waste of time. By comparison, I can name a quite a number of actions I've taken from my current feeds, e.g. from learning more programming stuff to jumping on EFF action alerts, etc.


👤 ChrisArchitect
You're on it.


👤 hakunin
Generally:

1. NPR Up First podcast while brushing teeth.

2. This site for tech and adjacent nerdy topics.

3. Macrumors, 9to5mac, and various blogs via RSS.

4. Apple News+ subscription (that I got as part of Apple One) — check regularly for more in-depth stories form a variety of sources, and for following big events.


👤 mraza007
Mine is hackernews almost every single day.

I literally have 10 different tabs opened on my phone with different HN discussions.


👤 foogazi
Drudge report

NYT

Local paper


👤 minebreaker
Guardian and Al Jazeera

👤 solardev
Just apnews.com and reuters.com

I used to read a lot of Al Jazeera and The Guardian and but they became pretty skewed after Trump. WAPO too.


👤 vpaulus
Very unpopular opinion: The Fresh section of 9gag is often suprisingly up-to-date.

👤 mankypro
Www.DrudgeReport.com

👤 terrortang
- https://techmeme.com/

- Hacker News


👤 rajnathani
StudyFinds (https://studyfinds.org).

👤 mick_schroeder
Web Shuffle - sends user to random news websites from an AI curated list of sources. Its like the old StumbleUpon but aimed at popular / news websites.

https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/

I create a bookmark directly to the redirect page which lets me shuffle to random websites right from my bookmark toolbar. I click that a few times to sort of "channel surf" the web.

https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/redirect

There is also a Digital Newsstand with live screenshots of all the sources. I can scroll through that to get the headlines.

https://webshuffle.mickschroeder.com/newsstand/


👤 peanutcrisis
Jerry Coyne's blog: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/

👤 mrjay42
For french speakers, and they have some of their content in English, and automated translation is always possible: https://www.mediapart.fr/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediapart

Medipart is one of the only medias in France (there is only 1 other I can think of) that is NOT owned by private interests, a network, a billionaire, or many billionaires or millionaires. It is funded by its subscribers And above all else, it does investigative journalism which actually led MANY times ministers and other powerful people to justice.

Never ever Mediapart has been wrong so far when building a case against a corrupted official. Every time French justice system followed the same conclusion as Medipart.

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Otherwise as other mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Which exists also in your own language!

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And... https://theintercept.com/

Very well known for having revealed the documents sent by Reality Winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner#Role_of_The_Int...


👤 runjake


👤 epirogov
reddit ukraine war report

👤 giantg2
Hacker News

Although I guess it's not so much a source but just an aggregation.