Ask HN: How do you discover new things on the internet in 2023?

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13 points by oliverjudge 972 days ago

With the fall of Twitter and the fragmentation of where everyone has ended up I'm finding that I'm discovering less and less views/posts/articles that are out of my comfort zone.

I find without the stream of people I had curated for years to be pretty diverse in interest subject matter I tend to just frequent the same haunts every day.

What do you do to discover new things or stay on top of what's going on?

Disclaimer: I've been able to follow a few people to Mastodon but it seems some interest feeds have just dropped dead.

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sysadm1n 972 days ago

https://www.producthunt.com/ (For new SaaS products and interesting books)

https://sumi.news/ (One quick sweep of current events)

https://pinboard.in/popular (Everything that is trending on the web)

And of course, Hackernews (I regularly browse /newest when I am feeling serendipitous).

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syncbehind 971 days ago

What a nice find that you can access the pinboard popular page despite not being logged in!

I've long supported pinboard, but after the site went black a few times and the dev just completely nonresponsive, I moved to raindrop.io. But moving to raindrop, this was one of the things that I really missed from pinboard.

Thanks!

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giorgioz 972 days ago

I like the Google News that appear on Android when I swipe left from the main screen. It shows you articles related to what you searched recently. Sometimes it came up with things "I didn't know that I wanted to know". I googled a problem from an angle and few days in the Google News on Android few articles related to that problem appeared.

It's also very nice that you can only scroll through only 2 screens of news than you have to wait.

This to avoid the infinite scroll of the Facebook Newsfeed where you keep scrolling for too long and the news get less and less relevant and then you have the feeling of vomiting like when you eat too many candies at once.

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giorgioz 972 days ago

For programming languages I use some curated weekly newsletters:

Javascript https://javascriptweekly.com/

React https://react.statuscode.com/

There are curated weekly newsletters on many languages/big frameworks.

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sargstuff 972 days ago

Feed snippets from the 'frequent the same haunts' into search engine & check out /follow up on the results.

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swah 972 days ago

TikTok, unfortunately, is where new things will surface...