Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

id love to try out lobste.rs but i cant seem to get an invite, and commenting is one of the biggest parts of these kinds of sites to me.

Nice job on serializer - there are now newsworthy articles on the front page that are missing from HN front page.

ps. I think you should set a max-width on the content area, I see you made it flexible probably for mobile but on larger displays the unlimited width makes your eyes move too much (meanwhile I'll fix it with stylish)

pps. free https maybe?

Yeah I'll recommend the quota email digests too. They do a great job, however those are curated. I'm not on it nearly as often as HN but it's a different category.

Drudge is a great aggregator but my goodness it has strong political biases. I used to pair Salon.com visits with drudge to get contrasting spins, but a year or two ago Salon went all link-baity fluff. For a while qz.com was amazing until they re-designed their home page and removed 50 IQ points from the content (ditto for fivethirtyeight.com). At this point my news sources are mainly reduced to the great-but-comically-biased drudge and the once-great-now-dumbed-down-but-still-analytically-unbiased fivethirtyeight.com

If anyone knows of a good US-moderate or left of US-center news aggregator that acts like its readers are intelligent, I'm all ears (I also like right of US-center news but I get plenty of that from drudge)

Drudge's headlines are comically sensationalistic, biased and so deliberately taken out of a story's context that it's pure genius.

And that's a terrible way to get one's news.

> A small number of quality subreddits.

Such as?

I'm always looking to expand my reading list, as I find that I frequently read everything and there being nothing left to consume. :-(

Same here. Since it combines most of my areas of interest, I don't need to use other sources.

If I'm not active on HN for some time, I check out Lobste.rs to keep up. They have way less members and posts, so hot news stay longer on the front page.

For funny things I go to regular Reddit front page.

Accessing HN with Firefox (if your web history is turned on) does exactly that[1]. No extension is necessary. The same is true for every other browser since the CSS file it clearly says:

    a:link    { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; }
    a:visited { color:#828282; text-decoration:none; }

[1] http://i.imgur.com/CqKW1yK.png

I assume you mean seen but not visited, since as the other reply says, the browser tracks :visited for you.

I have a more aggressive greasemonkey script that hides lots of non-technical links on HN

    var links = document.links;

    var boring = [ "adage.com", "arstechnica", "bbc", "discovermagazine", "bloomberg", 
               "bloombergview", "buzzfeed", "businessinsider", 
              "californiasunday","cnn","csmonitor","dailymail",
              "digg", "economist","esquire", "fastcompany",
              "forbes", "ft.com", "fortune", "fusion", "geekwire",
              "gizmodo", "harvard.edu", "huffingtonpost", "inc.com",
              "longreads", "medium", "mondaynote",
              "nature", "nautil.us", "newscientist", "newstatesman",
              "newyorker", "npr.org", "nybooks", "nymag", "nytimes", "pando",
              "psychologytoday", "qz.com", "reddit", "reuters", "sciencedaily",
              "scientificamerican", "slate", "techcrunch", "telegraph",
              "theatlantic", "theguardian", "thenation","theparisreview",
              "theverge", "theregister", "time", "usatoday", "vancouversun",
              "vice", "vimeo",
              "vogue", "washingtonpost", "wired", "wsj", "yahoo",
              "youtube", "zdnet" ];
     matcher = new RegExp("\\b("+(boring.join("|").replace(/\./g,"\\."))+")\\b");
     for (i=0; i<links.length; i++) {
       hostname = links[i].hostname.replace(/^www\./,"");
       if (hostname.match(matcher)) {
         links[i].style.setProperty("display", "none");
  
         links[i].parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode("[removed]"), links[i]);

      }
    }

Just to be clear, I read a lot of those sites - I'm just not interested in seeing them on HN, where I'm looking for technical news.

Anyway, you could adapt this by parsing the age field and making judgements based on how old the article is and your time of day (ie you'll have seen a 6 hour old article at the end of the day, but at the start of the day, it first appeared overnight)