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Ask HN: What are the 5 websites you visit almost daily?

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http://serializer.io/ (combo feed of most of the sites I used to hit, including HN... saves huge amounts of time)

http://www.memeorandum.com/m/ (newest addition, heard about it on FiveThirtyEight, so far I'm impressed with the quality of the newsfeed)

http://drudgereport.com/ (I don't buy into drudge's politics but he buys ink by the gallon and it's important to read outside your bubble, whatever that happens to be)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/

https://stratechery.com/

I don't buy into Drudge politically either but I do appreciate how well it's still doing and for a news aggregator at that.

It sounds like information overload if you really visit all these sites every day?

I built that list to prevent information overload - I realized I was burning huge amounts of time inefficiently re-checking large numbers of sites throughout the day (refresh the HN page often?). Having trained myself to hit just these sites for my news, I've recovered a great deal of time and flow back into my day, because unlike the HN page or Reddit these change more slowly and more predictably, reducing the need to constantly scan through tons of titles in a page to look for what's new.

They say Drudge is the gateway drug to InfoWars. ;P

Suggestion: post a single site per comment, to allow upvoting the ~5 you visit daily.

- my personal news aggregator, fed by dozens of different sources, branching out to hundreds.

- Google

The rest varies from day to day, depending on what i'm working on. It can be anything from Github to Sci-Hub and everything in between. I'm currently restoring and expanding a 17th century farm house so add sites about swapping rotten logs in a log house to the mix ('just lift the house, remove the rotten bits and put fresh logs in'. Which works fine, task accomplished using 2 €40 20 ton capacity hydraulic bottle jacks and some logs I had lying around).

I'd be interested to see your personal news aggregator – I too made myself a personally customised one – https://readspike.com – anyone else make their own after the death of Google reader?

The software is nothing special and can be installed by anyone: Nextcloud [1] running the News [2] app. The virtue of the thing is that you can point it at any RSS/Atom feed you want and have the result appear in categories of your choice. This is not limited to 'news' of course, any type of feed will work. I use it to keep up with activities on selected Github repos, commits show up as news items in the feed. There are accompanying apps for mobile devices but I tend to rely on the web interface even when using something mobile.

[1] https://nextcloud.com/

[2] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news

Oh that is nice, I'll try testing that out locally, thanks!

I wrote one a simple php script to pull in some rss feeds and present. It also loads a link by get request and strips out ads and other unwanted junk. Nothing special, but it does the job

Super neat! Is it open source?

Sure it is: https://github.com/nextcloud

Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud: https://github.com/owncloud

Thanks! I thought about it, but I'm ashamed of how poor my coding is :) It's really just a php script that converts rss/json feeds to html

Is it possible to rearrange the feeds?

No, there's not much functionality, just a site for my own amusement really. One day I'd like to, and also make it so you can add your own feeds

how do you organize and rank with hundreds of sources? I suppose you can't read it all :)

An interesting spin to this question would be "What are 5 websites you once visited daily but now no longer visit?"

To answer my own alternate question: Biggest one for me would be Slashdot. It was once a great site for tech news. I feel as though HN is the Slashdot of the present.

It's like a snapshot of 10-15 years ago haha:

  - http://fark.com/
  - http://geekculture.com/joyoftech/
  - http://pcweenies.com/
  - http://theonion.com/
  - http://collegehumor.com/
  - http://jnaudin.free.fr/
  - http://snap.com/

Slashdot would be pretty high on that list for me, but I still find there is a class of editor-selected article that slashdot pulls up that sites like HN miss. HN publishes faster, but in a more clique-based way. Slashdot publishes slower but sometimes catching useful things the clique missed.

Slashdot for sure. Along with sites that became abandoned over time such as Freshmeat.net, Kur05hin.org, and even such gems as advogato.org which seem to be on the decline.

Heck, I had forgotten about Advogato. I had an account on it for a while, and there used to be some interesting and unusual articles on it sometimes.

Just looked it up again. It seems to be on the Internet Archive now, and even has a Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato

I think a lot of people here would be in the same boat with Slashdot.

For me:

  - Slashdot
  - Facebook
  - AltaVista
  - Google Reader
  - BeyondUnreal

What.CD

didn't know you were into necro?

Read the comment I'm replying to...

> An interesting spin to this question would be "What are 5 websites you once visited daily but now no longer visit?"

Woops! I put my internet on backwards this morning

Slashdot, Google Reader, del.icio.us, Yahoo! Games, MSNBC

UserFriendly

  - Digg
  - HN
  - Reddit
  - GitHub
  - Gmail

I might be the only person who never stopped using Digg, but I actually really like their new "Curated Posts" mode of operation.

I use their DiggReader ever since Google Reader went away

I was not aware this existed. I'm paying for Feedbin right now, that might be worth a look…

At work it's HN, cloud service, ticket system, internal KB system, time logging service, chat service (if it has a web client), and search engine.

At home it's YouTube, Imgur, random Powershell pages, my bot's web output, and "science" videos.

Can you tell us more about your "bot's web output"? I've been going over an idea, on and off, around having some automated system scrape pages for me, stripping them down into something much leaner so I can offline them and load them up whenever I like. Is this what you have going on here?

It's not quite that fancy - she's just a loop switching over an RNG, looking up words against a random API, and speaking the output. The input words come from my clipboard, any errors she generates, and randomly from her word:meaning database. The APIs are Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia, and DDG's Instant Answers. She finds some very interesting definitions.

Instead of writing to a console, she writes her output to a web page - along with using the .NET libraries to speak, if my phone's MAC address is on the same LAN as her. She waits a random amount of time before speaking again, and the webpage has a simple meta tag set to refresh in the same number of seconds.

http://www.oregonlive.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/radley-balko

https://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/

https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/matt-taibbi

https://hckrnews.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/americas/index.html

https://www.theskanner.com/

Also potentially interesting is the method of getting to them daily. I use favicon-only bookmarks on the same line as tabs in firefox. What do other folks do?

Mine are in a bookmark folder. Middle-clicking the folder opens all of its contents in new tabs.

No one visits PornHub? Come on, guys...

Speaking of which.. https://emergency.nofap.com

Too tame...

- https://hckrnews.com/ (chronologic view for HN)

- https://lichess.org/ (prefer this to chess.com)

- http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first (start my morning with this news podcast)

- https://www.reddit.com/

- https://twitter.com

https://feedly.com (so Ars Technica, Reuters, The AP feed, Youtube, the IACR preprint feed, physorg, etc, etc. Big list here)

https://hckrnews.com/

https://calendar.google.com/

https://mail.google.com/

An old forum with a small group of people. Of no interest to most.

  - Product Hunt (via new Chrome tab)
  - Hacker News
  - gmail (including weekly dev/indie newsletters for iOS, React and ML)
  - [reddit, twitter or facebook every other day]
  - [college/alumni private forum]

I've heard before most people have 4 common sites and 1 long tail site. I think level of engagement is another dimension too. I probably have the most engagement on gmail. (And of course the majority of my online communication is via Slack.)

http://indiehackers.com

https://bestfoodnearme.com

google.com

reddit.com

news.ycombinator.com

Oh wow, indiehackers is amazing ️

https://mail.google.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/

http://www.allgamesdelta.net/

and I can only think of a fourth, which is my web IRC client which then feeds me links for the rest of the day (in some channels across freenode and gamesurge)

My two forum sites, Gmail, Discord and YouTube. Though that's less 'almost daily' and more 'every twenty minutes or so'.

I would include Hacker News in there too, but hey, I visit that somewhat less than the sites listed above. Same with Medium, The Admin Zone and various subreddits.

NewsBlur which is my RSS reader, which of course leads me to many other sites including HN (via an hnapp.com generated feed).

GoldToken.com and DailyGammon.com for ongoing games of Backgammon.

Facebook.

StartPage.com is my go to search engine (basically a front end for Google without the bubble and with more privacy).

- twitter.com,gmail.com,google.com....

- my_rss_reader.personaldomain.org (I have a project in google app engine named goread.io for my personal rss)

- myraspberry.dyndns.com(I use dyndns to acces to my raspberry, I have a simple ssh server )

- meneame.com (spanish reddit)

NOAA Weather

Reuters News

AP News

Facebook

Hacker News

Science Bulletin

http://www.mrboffo.com/wdaily.html

(I know, that's not 5, but I have those bookmarked and open them all in tabs at the same time and peruse them all most everyday.)

Facebook, Twitter, HN, Reddit, Google (including gsuite stuff)

Surprising that Instagram is on no one's list here. I visit Instagram daily.

Sure, I use the app but I think that counts as "website" in a broad sense.

Reddit | HN | Google services | YouTube (probably should be included with Google services) | ShareTheWub (side project)

- Hacker News - Google - Stackoverflow

  - My RSS feeds (I use feedly for this)
  - HN
  - Twitter
  - Fastmail
  - GitLab

Hacker News Khan Academy 4chan, especially /g/ College forum MIT OCW.

Had to scroll halfway through the thread to find a 4chan.

My Time Tracker Chrome extension says these 5 are the top for my past 30 days of browser activity on my personal laptop:

  2d 22h - 9.63% |===================> Discord (friends from an Eve Online corp)
  2d 12h - 8.24% |================>    4chan (mostly the motorcycle thread on /o/ the past few months)
  2d  1h - 6.71% |=============>       Google
  1d 10h - 4.75% |==========>          Hacker News
  1d  7h - 4.34% |=========>           Google Music (last.fm has 522 plays total, 17/day avg over past 30 days)

Office365.com, bogleheads.com, wsj.com, arstechnica.com, androidpolice.com

The Academia StackExchange site, Reddit, RPG.net, Bell of Lost Souls, HN

I'm surprised I don't see more people putting Stack Overflow.

Something tells me people are self-censoring these results. And I ain't just talkin' StackOverflow.

You just made me remember the tracking extension I installed a while back that now allows me to answer OP with a conscience clear of self-censoring and false memory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872769). Thanks!

Incidentally, StackOverflow is in 8th place for me, behind Youtube (6th) and the Chrome New Tab page (7th).

Perhaps it's because people mostly end up on StackOverflow by coincidence, e.g. when doing a Google search. I suppose it's not really a site that people consciously visit.

I would second this. I visit stack overflow multiple times a day always from a search result.

israelnationalnews.com

foxnews.com

hckrnews.com

patspulpit.com

I guess there's no fifth...

Twitter || Hacker News || Gmail || Google Analytics || Trello

HN, Reddit, Google/Gmail, Reuters, Bloomberg, Facebook

- Github - HN - Regexer - JSON Validator - Stackoverflow

duckduckgo hackernews whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday arstechnica wavecam/buouy reports/any

but these are just for today, I can't remember yesterday.

- https://learn-anything.xyz/ (Community curated knowledge graph)

- https://github.com/ (code)

- http://hckrnews.com/ (news)

- http://www.reddit.com/ (follow few small communities)

- http://lobste.rs/ (news)

for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) print "Hacker News"

- github - HN - arxiv - reddit - trello

Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, HN, Twitch

hacker news is always in a tab, flowdock, github, then occasionally reddit and a few other forums.

HN, ARS, Vox, The Verge, YouTube

PYTHON GITHUB HN REDDIT TWITTER

in no particular order:

  - HN
  - FB
  - TW
  - SO
  - ...And google?

- hacker news

- github

- facebook

- chess.com

- jira

- Hacker News

- Facebook

- Gmail

- Google Search

- GitHub

HN (via app)

Twitter (via application)

4chan (/vg/)

Stack Exchange

Google (image search)

my own tt-rss instance, Twitter, Skimfeed, Stack Overflow, Spotify

Google Search, Gmail, Hacker News, Reddit, WSJ, NY Times, Google Play Music

At home: Hacker News, Deviant Art, Xkcd, The Guardian, Gmail

Fascinating how we are all divulging all this info...

In no particular order:

HN | Lobste.rs (even though I have no account there) | YouTube | Wikipedia | 8chan

ft.com in addition to others mentioned

- Hacker News

- Reddit

- The Verge

- YouTube

- Gmail

Stackoverflow

theoldreader

Google Inbox

Facebook

Twitter

Bbc news

Trekbbs

Hacker news

Facebook

Usually YouTube

Github

Quora

Slack (don't know this count as site or app)

- hacker news

- reddit

- google keep

- gmail

- trello

Hacker News

Twitter

Google

Woot

- Reddit

- Hacker News

- Twitter

- Local news sites

In that order of frequency

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