You can read HN/reddit/others and see news others think is good. There are many services and apps like Flipboard which try and find the best news for you. Then we can just stick to one or a few news sources and go with that or possibly use RSS where you just become so overwhelmed you stop reading it.
Sometimes I see stuff on facebook news that I don't see on reddit. HN is mostly tech. Apps like Flipboard and Smartnews, while nice tend to gravitate to buzzfeed and businessinsider articles. Google and Yahoo news aren't much different. In fact the google news android app can leave you in the dark on some events and you wouldn't even know it. RSS is just too much to keep up with. Specific news sources like the NYT tend to be too broad.
There's an app named Flipboard Briefing which is actually decent but regular Flipboard just has too much content. Briefing has too little.
Is there a better way? There must be. I should say I am mostly interested in big events and tech news.