Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by galfarragem » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:24 AM UTC

On architecture (buildings not IT) there isn't nothing like HN (high signal crowd curated news). At most there are reasonable good news curated by one/few individuals. The task is herculean and will be, by definition, highly biased. Hints:

http://afasiaarchzine.com/

https://divisare.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by janeroe » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:33 AM UTC

HN for people who can't stand BSers: https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by contingencies » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:47 AM UTC

Long distance / long term live-aboard yacht cruising: http://www.ybw.com/forums/ + http://www.cruisersforum.com/ + http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by tincholio » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:56 AM UTC

srik wrote: post #5

For Calligraphy & Penmanship - http://theflourishforum.com/forum

I haven't visited in a while, but it used to be that the penmanship forum of the Fountain Pen Network was the go-to place for calligraphy. IT was later sub-divided into more specialized fora, and maybe lost a bit its momentum.

The calligraphy subreddit is also quite active.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by franciscop » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 10:17 AM UTC

Surprised no one said the obvious: Reddit. Find the right subreddit and you'll see high-ish quality posts on the topic. Javascript, Node.js, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by azeirah » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 10:23 AM UTC

snissn wrote: post #6

Lobste.rs

Lobste.rs feels like what Hackernews was when I first got here. I remember reading up on so many weird and cool personal projects on HN, along with obscure math, logic and black-magic programming.

Nowadays it feels like HN slowly moved towards the more startuppy and political side of things, while keeping its sharp technical focus.

Could also just be that I ignored the startup/political posts in the beginning though, I was heavily against that. I was also way less informed about the industry and math/programming in general, could as well just be that it got a lot harder to impress or surprise me with weird programming or math stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Post by AETackaberry » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 10:31 AM UTC

Most industries don't have a Hacker News. In my opinion, it is coming. Tech-savvy generations will be moving into senior roles, and they will look to communicate online.

My main question is are these other industries as passionate as the tech industry? Are they as collaborative? I am from the oil and gas industry, and I can firmly say that currently the answer to those two questions for the oil industry is a hard "No". But that might change.