Which is the best place to find the best information about what is happening on the bleeding edge of tech?
Posted by magicsenpaiiii@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 9 comments
I just want to know resources which report the most accurate and right tech updates. Is it twitter? Is it a subreddit I’ve not heard of? What is happening on the bleeding edge?
Suspicious_Coat3244@reddit
Tbh, the actual bleeding edge stuff always appears in some obscure corner of X/Twitter, GitHub repo, discord, research paper, niche dev community etc long before it even makes it into mainstream tech media.
X/Twitter is still probably the fastest for AI and startup stuff, but it's so saturated with hype and rehashed takes that you really need to curate your feed and who you follow. A good amount of the actual signal actually comes from researchers/engineers/OSS maintainers and people sharing experiments in real time.
Reddit is slower but I've found it's a lot better for understanding some more grounded discussions and real world use rather than pure marketing. HN is surprisingly still okay but some of the energy around there can be pure distributed systems philosopher energy lol.
The one trend that's kind of changed things a bit in my view though: A lot of the real cutting edge actually appears directly on GitHub. Just watching what repos trend, the release notes, issue discussions, benchmark results, commits, etc, can tell you so much more than articles ever will. By the time tech news talks about how "AI agent framework gains traction" devs have already been wrangling with it for 3 weeks.
afig2311@reddit
The real bleeding edge happens in academic journals and Discord servers. A lot of it doesn't turn out to be too impactful, but big things start there.
If you want to be the first to learn whats becoming popular, try Hacker News or newsletters.
I subscribe to a few of tldr.tech newsletters, very AI focused, which may be a good or bad thing depending on your interests and opinions on the subject.
rustyseapants@reddit
What is happening on the bleeding edge technology?
how has google search changed over time?
Automatic_Share1800@reddit
Hacker news Tech crunch
Ratiocinor@reddit
https://www.phoronix.com/
https://arstechnica.com/
https://www.theregister.com/
https://lwn.net/
Aquatic-Vocation@reddit
You can check out Two Minute Papers on YouTube for the "cool" stuff that's happening.
Hacker News doesn't always have the most cutting-edge stuff, but there's a lot of extremely qualified people jumping into the discussions.
Trending Github repos can give you a good idea of what cool stuff people are building.
Other than that, find people in the field working on the kind of topics you're interested in, and follow their work, or find out what communities (Discord, forums, mailing lists, etc) they're active in and see if you can join.
TheConnectionist@reddit
The best places for bleeding edge stuff are journals and conferences. Basically all you will find on social media is hype and lies.
Search the internet for < conference | journal >.
To give you a concrete idea, for computer science here are some good ones:
NeurIPS: machine learning and AI.
CVPR: computer vision.
ICML: machine learning.
ACM SIGCOMM: computer networking.
ACM SIGMOD: databases and data management.
Internal-Gazelle-103@reddit
twitter's pretty decent if you follow the right people but there's so much noise to filter through. i usually check hackernews since the community does good job at curating interesting stuff, plus the comment discussions are usually worth reading too
for more specific areas like AI or crypto you might want different sources but hackernews covers broad range of bleeding edge tech pretty well
Supermath101@reddit
With the proliferation of AI generated misinformation, I don't think there's any reliable source, at least nowadays.