I would've said: 1) news.ycombinator.com, 2) hn.algolia.com, and 3) hn.premii.com
But putting aside HN and the 'typical' daily stuff like weather, transit, uh, 'private' stuff, etc.:
1. De Correspondent: a web-only subscription-based newspaper that has a pretty unique and very successful approach. Instead of the classical 'lots of news items as things unfold, hot off the press, and lots of barely rewritten AP feeds' model, it publishes fewer, longer, better-researched articles that provide more context. Basically, it tries to avoid the 'whims' of the day. It actively tries to center itself around the correspondents who get to write series on their area of expertise, and has done a very admirable job asking readers what they should be focusing on. And best of all, they're in the process of creating an English version of it. For now you'd have to learn Dutch for most of it.
2. tvcountdown.com: despite my resolve to watch less television, I still follow a bunch of shows and always forget when they air.
3. duolingo.com: currently learning Spanish. I'm shocked by how well the 'few minutes daily' approach works!
PS: hey HN overlords. I truly love this wonderful timesink here, but can we have markdown please!?!
Had not visited techmeme before. Was surprised about the amount of detail in the headings for articles. The opposite of clickbait. I wonder how much that is editorial intent or just happy accidents of culture. Not familiar with the site at all but could see myself coming back.
Techmeme is probably the most inside source on SV. It's read by journalists and definitely influences the more mainstream tech news sites like TechCrunch, The Verge. The Information is another very inside source but geared toward founders and execs because of their business model -- expensive user subscriptions (~$400/year). Quality is top notch though.
it's an isometric civ game with a bunch of little game-AI agents who go about their days. It's like an aquarium or an ant farm, but with little AI people.
That looks very interesting. I suppose they keep running even when there is no visitor looking, so you come back the next day and they did all sort of things.
Are you planning to keep it for yourself or will we see a Show HN someday?
World and UK news. I try to avoid the identity politics articles - they are of a much lower quality than the other content. The comment sections are often very insightful and of a much higher standard than most other news sites:
Excluding core utilitarian sites like Google/FB and anything personal....
Bloomberg, YouTube, Stack Exchange sites.
I used to visit Reddit daily, had to stop to try to get away from Trump mania. I cut out a lot of sites that have gone off the deep-end in regards to 24/7 Trump, such as Business Insider (it had dropped in quality long before that, granted).
Curiously while I use Netflix and Amazon Video via dedicated hardware & TV, I never use YouTube that way (and probably never will). I believe it's due to the average presentation length of content on said services and the purpose (educational/informative vs large screen entertainment).
Reddit, BoingBoing, and one between Guardian and BBCNews depending on how I feel (Guardian editorial agendas piss me off so much on a periodic basis, I stop reading for months at a time).
his talks on youtube are mostly based on startups, so I don't see them because I am not planning to start up any soon. his essays still have some general essays that I like reading.
But putting aside HN and the 'typical' daily stuff like weather, transit, uh, 'private' stuff, etc.:
1. De Correspondent: a web-only subscription-based newspaper that has a pretty unique and very successful approach. Instead of the classical 'lots of news items as things unfold, hot off the press, and lots of barely rewritten AP feeds' model, it publishes fewer, longer, better-researched articles that provide more context. Basically, it tries to avoid the 'whims' of the day. It actively tries to center itself around the correspondents who get to write series on their area of expertise, and has done a very admirable job asking readers what they should be focusing on. And best of all, they're in the process of creating an English version of it. For now you'd have to learn Dutch for most of it.
2. tvcountdown.com: despite my resolve to watch less television, I still follow a bunch of shows and always forget when they air.
3. duolingo.com: currently learning Spanish. I'm shocked by how well the 'few minutes daily' approach works!
PS: hey HN overlords. I truly love this wonderful timesink here, but can we have markdown please!?!