I've pretty much ditched my RSS reader in favor of hacker news. After all, everything I'm interested in reading consists of 1) entrepreneurial content, 2) silicon valley news and 3) the latest development trends. Why do I need to subscribe to all these blogs when the best content for me ends up on the front page of HN?<p>That said, I'm wondering if there is any other content out there that like-minded folks would suggest I turn my attention to.<p>No techcrunch or any of that crap. I'm talking really good content for hacker/entrepreneurs. Or is this mecca for me and there is no where else to look?
Oh, oh, don't do this! This is a bad bad thing - don't get all your news from one source and already pre-filtered for you. You lose track of alternative opinions, you lose track of how the rest of the world thinks, and soon you cannot innovate anymore because all your ideas are pretty much the same.<p>It's terrible terrible mistake to only have one news source.
<a href="http://nonhackernews.com" rel="nofollow">http://nonhackernews.com</a>
<a href="http://newmogul.com" rel="nofollow">http://newmogul.com</a> <a href="http://newsvine.com" rel="nofollow">http://newsvine.com</a> is good for raw mainstream pundit news of the "breaking" kind. and <a href="http://www.newsvine.com/world-news" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsvine.com/world-news</a> for world news.
Hacker news seems to have the best signal-to-noise in its community, that's why I'm here. The spinoffs rms posted are probably the best place to look next, but I don't think they have the critical mass userbase (yet).
What amazes me about HN is the number of famous hackers who post comments and read. It's also like a democracy in that I can vote (comments up/down). I've also worked out what kinds of posts get karma points, and I've adjusted (eg, by sincerity, sarcasm, pun/wit) to what helps the community most, and thus gets me the most karma.
I don't know if its worked for anybody else.. but i recently got the stumbleupon bar and if you choose your interest, it gives quite interesting results.<p>Not comparable to HN or even reddit/programming.
A very similar question was asked not so long ago: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284019" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284019</a><p>It got a lot of interesting answers.
>Why do I need to subscribe to all these blogs when the best content for me ends up on the front page of HN?<p>So you can submit interesting stuff for the rest of us to read :)
I love Hacker news, but, but... has there ever been any discussion about the desirability of having a couple of lines of summary under the headline? The headline only format irks me.