hackernews continues to be a pretty good resource, even though it can be kind of hit or miss, and often it’s not about new technologies.

I feel deep into the hn thread about Super NES cartridges, not exactly new technology, but it lead me to things like videos of people hacking a Famicom to do ray tracing in real time.

hackernews can still often feel like it has too much about the FAANG companies, tho, so like I said, hit or miss.

MetaFilter is similarly hit-or-miss because it’s a general-interest site, but it has a lot of coders and makers on it, and often there’s really good tech discussions there… but they’re probably the minority of the threads on MeFi.

I can’t stand the topics you mentioned either and I make a big effort to filter them out whenever possible! There’s a tool called https://siftrss.com/ which can be the middle man between you and your RSS feeds. It allows you to filter out any articles containing black listed keywords which is super handy.

My biggest frustration about modern RSS feeds is that the articles are often incomplete. Some clients are able to get the full feed anyway but it usually results in broken formatting.

Here are my favorite news sources:

Check out Phoronix. Great for Linux news.

I like it’s Foss, there tutorials are pretty good, there news feed is decent. I also have the Flathub recently released apps feed, it lets you discover new apps for Linux that you might not have heard of otherwise

https://itsfoss.com/

Tuxmachines, distrowatch, osnews, slashdot, ArsTechina, I have some BSD ones too I follow along with some security ones