Ask HN: Where do you go for cutting-edge dev news and info?

by TimTheTinker on 6/5/2025, 4:18:36 PM with 10 comments
Between roughly 2002 and 2017 certain blogs, websites, and publishers were constantly on the cutting edge: Ajaxian, Jesse James Garett, Dion Almaer, Douglas Crockford, PragProg, Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, DHH, Andy Hunt, John Resig, 37signals, etc.

These days, HN itself is decent enough, but the majority of posts aren't about cutting-edge software development.

Where do you go these days for cutting-edge news and info focused on the vanguard of software development?

  • by hamelcubsfan on 6/5/2025, 7:20:11 PM

    I've been using https://foorilla.com/ and it's pretty solid.

    It’s basically a big list of online news sources pulled straight from allainews.com, and it gives you links, article summaries, etc, plus RSS feeds. You can set up your feed by topic, which is super helpful, and it pulls in trending and real-time news too.

  • by dtagames on 6/5/2025, 4:58:13 PM

    I disagree. The majority of HN posts are indeed about the vanguard of software development and those reflect developers' common interests at the moment.

    You're already here.

  • by petercooper on 6/5/2025, 5:53:33 PM

    This is a sort of alternative hack, but I run the Hacker News newest items through a filter that turns all the developer related ones into an RSS file, then I subscribe to that. Gives me a few hundred titles a day to quickly skim through but it works for me.

  • by malfist on 6/6/2025, 8:33:57 PM

    There's this niche website that you've probably not heard of called Hacker News were you can get all the cutting edge tech news you want

  • by fazlerocks on 6/5/2025, 6:00:06 PM

    Honestly X is still pretty good for this if you follow the right people. The AI/ML research community is super active there - Andrej Karpathy, François Chollet, Yann LeCun, etc. Plus a lot of the good startups announce stuff there first.

    For more traditional dev stuff, I've been getting good signal from newsletters like Changelog, TLDR, and Morning Brew's tech section. Not as real-time as the old blog days but decent curation.

    Reddit's r/MachineLearning and r/programming can be hit or miss but sometimes catch things early. GitHub trending is also underrated for spotting new tools.