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Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet?

by sjperez on 7/10/21, 3:51 PM with 21 comments

Am I the only one who seems to spend 95% of my time on the same five websites? In an effort to expand my Internet horizons, I'd love to know what your "five-website Internet" looks like. Mine is:

1. New York Times 2. Ars Technica 3. Hacker News 4. IGN Movies 5. Redfin (for real estate fantasizing...)

I'm leaving out work-related websites, but with them, Gmail, Github, and Slack would be number 1, 2, and 3.

  • by sp332 on 7/10/21, 3:53 PM

    1999: there are millions of websites all hyperlinked together

    2019: there are four websites, each filled with screenshots of the other three.

    https://twitter.com/badnetworker/status/1133363823728091136?... (not quite a screenshot but in the same spirit)

  • by RosanaAnaDana on 7/10/21, 4:19 PM

    Reddit, Hackernews, Youtube, Craigslist, ...

    Honestly, reddit sucks but there isn't really another option that is some-how hotter garbage than reddit. I really don't want to chase content around the internet, so I tend more towards the aggregators.

    I also like garage sales.

  • by seanicus on 7/12/21, 8:03 PM

    Letterboxd, Twitter, HN (my life would be much better off without Twitter and my work productivity would be somewhat better off w/o HN).

    Greatest internet quality of life increase would be if I did away with all 3 of those and just reached for a book or my e-reader when I needed to be entertained.

  • by muzani on 7/11/21, 2:36 AM

    Does Google count? If it doesn't because of external links, how would Reddit or HN count? Do people frequently hang around Ask HN or the self contained subreddits?

  • by softwaredoug on 7/11/21, 5:37 PM

    Reddit, hacker news, stackexchange, LinkedIn, Instagram

  • by abhijat on 7/11/21, 11:18 AM

    financial times, hacker news, reddit. Although a much larger chunk of time is spent on the first compared to next two combined.

  • by DerekBickerton on 7/12/21, 11:32 AM

  • by mikewarot on 7/10/21, 7:52 PM

    1. Hacker News 2. Reddit 3. Slashdot 4. Facebook (friends and family) 5. YouTube

  • by tjalfi on 7/10/21, 9:19 PM

    Reddit, Hacker News, Goodreads, and Amazon.

  • by eneltipi on 7/12/21, 5:35 AM

  • by quickthrower2 on 7/11/21, 1:11 AM

    Reddit HN Amazon eBay gmail

  • by Normille on 7/10/21, 7:56 PM

    1: Hacker News

    2: Cryptocompare

    3: Amazon

    4: eBay

    5: DPReview

  • by markx2 on 7/10/21, 7:31 PM

    1. Skimfeed.com

    2. Metafilter.com

    3. Reddit.com (a selected list of subreddits only)

    4. local news site

    5. Newsblur.com (because RSS is the way)

  • by errantmind on 7/11/21, 9:02 PM

    HN, Lobste.rs, Substack, Reuters, <unnameable>

  • by x14km2d on 7/10/21, 4:51 PM

    blog.fefe.de

    hackaday.com

    blog.adafruit.com

    arstechnica.com

    scripting.com