I would've said: 1) news.ycombinator.com, 2) hn.algolia.com, and 3) hn.premii.com<p>But putting aside HN and the 'typical' daily stuff like weather, transit, uh, 'private' stuff, etc.:<p>1. <i></i>De Correspondent<i></i>: a web-only subscription-based newspaper that has a pretty unique and very successful approach. Instead of the classical 'lots of news items as things unfold, hot off the press, and lots of barely rewritten AP feeds' model, it publishes fewer, longer, better-researched articles that provide more context. Basically, it tries to avoid the 'whims' of the day. It actively tries to center itself around the correspondents who get to write series on their area of expertise, and has done a very admirable job asking readers what they should be focusing on. And best of all, they're in the process of creating an English version of it. For now you'd have to learn Dutch for most of it.<p>2. <i></i>tvcountdown.com<i></i>: despite my resolve to watch less television, I still follow a bunch of shows and always forget when they air.<p>3. <i></i>duolingo.com<i></i>: currently learning Spanish. I'm shocked by how well the 'few minutes daily' approach works!<p>PS: hey HN overlords. I truly love this wonderful timesink here, but can we have markdown please!?!
Dilbert: <a href="http://dilbert.com" rel="nofollow">http://dilbert.com</a><p>And for a daily dose of science:<p>NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html" rel="nofollow">https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html</a><p>Earth Science Picture of the Day: <a href="http://epod.usra.edu" rel="nofollow">http://epod.usra.edu</a><p>Also: Yahoo and/or Google Finance (on business days), and usually news.google.com.
Good for long form articles on culture:<p>Arts and Letters Daily (<a href="http://www.aldaily.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aldaily.com/</a>)<p>World and UK news. I try to avoid the identity politics articles - they are of a much lower quality than the other content. The comment sections are often very insightful and of a much higher standard than most other news sites:<p>The Guardian (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/uk</a>)<p>"Adversarial journalism":<p>The Intercept (<a href="https://theintercept.com" rel="nofollow">https://theintercept.com</a>)
Excluding core utilitarian sites like Google/FB and anything personal....<p>Bloomberg, YouTube, Stack Exchange sites.<p>I used to visit Reddit daily, had to stop to try to get away from Trump mania. I cut out a lot of sites that have gone off the deep-end in regards to 24/7 Trump, such as Business Insider (it had dropped in quality long before that, granted).<p>Curiously while I use Netflix and Amazon Video via dedicated hardware & TV, I never use YouTube that way (and probably never will). I believe it's due to the average presentation length of content on said services and the purpose (educational/informative vs large screen entertainment).
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html" rel="nofollow">https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html</a><p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/</a><p>and...<p>ClickUp: (for my teams PM)
<a href="https://clickup.com/" rel="nofollow">https://clickup.com/</a>
- <a href="http://serializer.io" rel="nofollow">http://serializer.io</a> my tool for following HN and reddit<p>- <a href="https://feedbin.com" rel="nofollow">https://feedbin.com</a> for whole range of other RSS feeds<p>...then I end up here reading the comments.<p>I try not to read my email at the weekend.
Reddit, BoingBoing, and one between Guardian and BBCNews depending on how I feel (Guardian editorial agendas piss me off so much on a periodic basis, I stop reading for months at a time).
Youtube (lots of great content if you look for it and set up your subscriptions)<p>NY times, (subscribe! Support journalism)<p>and Reddit (front page only)
paulgraham.com - for essays<p>twitter.com - for paul graham's tweets+retweets and for Calvin and Hobbes<p>youtube.com - well for music. but mostly for new content discovery
news.ycombinator.com<p>instapundit.com - commentary on current affairs<p>news.google.com<p>inframationgroup.com/infraasia/ - Infrastructure Asia news