Besides Hacker News, what other resources exist for someone who wants to stay up-to-date with the latest tech, and what's going on in the tech world?<p>Say you were cryogenically frozen for 5 years, and just woke up this morning. What sites should you visit to learn about the latest version of AngularQuery 3.5?
Well honestly, do you really need to? How useful it would to know name of every upcoming startup or every new technology. If it would be relevant enough, you would know it already.<p>I started reading Hacker News for staying up-to-date but lately, more than news what has become important for me is, insights. I read comments here first because the insights and advices they give are incredibly useful, much more than links themselves.
<a href="https://pinboard.in/popular/" rel="nofollow">https://pinboard.in/popular/</a> <-- Isn't strictly a hacker site, but has lots of technical links. I check that site and Hacker News daily.
If I was cryogenically frozen for 5 years, I hope I'd wake up and just get used to living for a while. Once I'm ready to get back into the game (assuming I don't choose another career altogether), I think it would be important to read up on general trends first - Perhaps technology trends from Wired and Business Insider?
<a href="http://highscalability.com/" rel="nofollow">http://highscalability.com/</a><p>These guys have some really great interviews and articles from time to time. They don't have "news" per se, but the "stuff the internet says on scalability" is pretty great and they interview technical leads for great tech businesses.<p>It is definitely more of a journal format though.
<p><pre><code> Slashdot (https://slashdot.org)
Lambda The Ultimate (https://lambda-the-ultimate.org/)
HN classic (https://news.ycombinator.com/classic)
Charged (http://weekly.char.gd/)
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Of the four, Charged would probably be the most useful to you, as I've noticed that tends to lean towards tech a bit.
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Mailing lists are hugely helpful to passively monitor different tech domains in addition to your regular sources.<p>You wouldn't find one specifically about AngularQuery but if I was following for news in that domain I'd add <a href="http://javascriptweekly.com/" rel="nofollow">http://javascriptweekly.com/</a> to my list as an example.
<a href="http://talll.com" rel="nofollow">http://talll.com</a> is an organized list of feeds. Will not solve your issue on angularquery though.
I'd check skimfeed at <a href="http://skimfeed.com" rel="nofollow">http://skimfeed.com</a><p>800 tech news links on that front page alone.