Though I’ve followed tech through the internet my entire life, I have always avoided becoming attached to a single writer. Crowd sourced tech news has always been my source of reading, and I feel that it provides a significantly more broad, less opinionated point of view. Starting out on less technical sites such as Gizmodo and Engadget (news submitted mostly by users, and ripped from other sources), I have progressed over the years as I have learned more about the field.

My next destination on the web was Reddit, a fully crowd sourced website which when utilized properly can provide an experience worth more than obnoxious memes one after the next. After tiring of the playful Reddit atmosphere leaking into its more serious subreddits, I have finally moved along to my current source for technology, YCombinator’s Hacker News.

Hacker News is based on Reddit’s open source web framework, and thus functions identically to Reddit (as far as post ratings and comments are concerned) as a crowd sourced news portal. Hosted by the Silicon Valley accelerator, YCombinator, Hacker News provides the nitty gritty tech details on not only the newest smartphones and laptops, but releases in the software world as well (new Javascript libraries, web frameworks, run-time algorithms, etc). This programmer centric mentality allows users to look deeper into the technical side of news stories in a way which cannot be found elsewhere on the internet.

While it’s taken some time stumbling across the web, I have finally found a news source which seems to suite my needs. Not only do I tremendously enjoy reading the content on Hacker News, I seldom feel like I’m wasting time browsing through posts like I previously would have on Reddit or Gizmodo/Engadget. Though everyone has their own methods for absorbing information, I will take crowd sourcing over an individual opinion any day of the week.