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webscouton How I regained concentration and focus

I use sites like https://biztoc.com once or twice a day and I'm more or less done with news. Just make sure you only read the headlines ;)

webscouton You can read my blog posts using curl

Also works with https://terminal.news

webscouton Show HN: RemoteFriendly – A remote job board inspired by HN

What APIs / sites are you scraping from?

webscouton The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

For business/finance related social news there's a UGC section on https://biztoc.com — Small but less toxic.

webscouton Show HN: Top Links from Hacker News, Reddit, Techmeme, PH on a Single Page

https://biztoc.com & https://terminal.news for Business / Crypto

webscouton 12 Years Ago Today, Laszlo Hanzecz Bought 2 Pizzas with 10k Bitcoins

Coincidentally, I think you can use the same 10k in Luna to buy a Pizza again today.

webscouton Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

https://biztoc.com for anything business-related

webscouton Google is 2B lines of code and it's all in one place (2015)

inside a single system available to just about every engineer inside the company

Can someone explain why there have never been any leaks?

webscouton Neubrutalism is taking over the web?

Upvote from a Champagne drinker ;)

webscouton No news is good news

https://biztoc.com and https://upstract.com pull in some news from there.

webscouton Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?

https://biztoc.com and https://upstract.com are the exact opposite but also feature Wikipedia Current events (among many others).

webscouton PeerTube 4 RC

If this is the current pinnacle of the decentralised Web, I don't expect to see a YT competitor in my lifetime.

webscouton Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

— Netlify + GCP for hosting

— Twilio for anything Messaging

— Stripe + Paypal for payments

— Biztoc.com for finding content to post

— Plausible.io for analytics

— Paperform for forms

— Bear.app for documentation

webscouton We need more boutique search engines

For Business News, there is: https://biztoc.com/search

webscouton Are NFTs Status Symbols?

What the F happened to folks like Alexis Ohanian or Kevin Rose? Their Twitter stream screams bored, rich signalling.

webscouton Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

There is a difference between a single onboarding email and actual spam. Magic links — love or hate em, but more and more services use them. Klarna, Vercel, ...

webscouton Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources

That's why a site like biztoc.com makes sense — curation + aggregation.

webscouton RIP Google Reader

Not an RSS reader by design, but I'm with https://upstract.com — Made by the original Popurls inventor.

webscouton Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round

As for r/Popular alternatives, I usually stick to less-noisy sites like https://upstract.com / Metafilter.com or even Pinboard's popular section.

webscouton My stack is HTML+CSS

Great, now show me the money.

webscouton HN Alternative UIs

https://upstract.com also has a section for HN, and then some...

webscouton Slower News

Also check out the user-curated section of https://upstract.com for good and less time-sensitive reads.

webscouton Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

From a privacy/no-track perspective, I also like https://upstract.com — Albeit more of a general-purpose news fix.

webscouton Facebook News

Ah, the good old popurls days ;)

webscouton Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?

Mentioned this a while ago but I try to skip all the CNNs and just subscribe to a couple of newsletters for Zeitgeistish stuff. the hustle, briefingday.com, etc.

webscouton Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

Near a UK fulfilment center ca. 2031: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2Sgd9sc0M

webscouton Show HN: Slower News

Recently subscribed to briefingday.com as recommended per Kevin Kelly. Similar, "slow" approach, but comes as a daily newsletter.