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Comment by noway421 | Hacker News Reader

Is there even a reputable techinical news outlet? TechCrunch is too very clickbaity and editorilized, although gets linked here all the time

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Ars Technica, perhaps?

No. Absolutely not. After they were acquired by Conde Nast, it has been downhill at an amazing pace.

They were downhill well before Conde Nast. Almost every article they ever did on LEDs was horribly out of date, using information that was true maybe a decade ago.

Eh, it's been a long time since I read it. Maybe it was for the better.

I have always found Ars to have relevant and well written content. Conde Nast has a lot of good writers at their various properties.

Despite other comments here, I'm as happy as ever with Ars, and I've been reading it for many years. They're the only tech news site I read anymore (besides here of course).

I've generally seen people get on the wagon of bashing Ars then not having anything better as a replacement suggestion. Like yeah I know the actual blog source is better but I don't know every tech blog on the internet.

I used to frequent Anandtech, Digital Foundry and ExtremeTech as they all had pretty good articles that sometimes went quite deep into the matter at hand. Anandtech its quality has gone down a lot, ExtremeTech is full of ads, ZergNet links and a constantly running JS script (probably a tracker?), and Digital Foundry its deep dives have become a lot less frequent. Only Ars Technica remains :/

Anandtech is still very good imo. I haven't really found any website that compares.

http://techmeme.com

It's an aggregator, and you need to resist the urge to click on the links. But the headlines and blurb are often informative enough that you usually don't need to click.

> you need to resist the urge to click on the links

Why?

Techmeme heading/summary:

"Fraunhofer, the major contributor to MP3, shut down its licensing program in April as MP3 patents expired — Red Hat has announced that Fedora will include official MP3 decoding and encoding. The reason is that MP3 is now patent free - as far as anyone can tell."

First linked (Engadget) article: "MP3 is dead, long live AAC. Its creators have abandoned licenses to the format, signing its death sentence."

Not clicking would have both saved you time and left you better informed.

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