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The "Fruitarians" already have their tight communities. Everyone who wanted to be in such a community is there already, not dumbly questioning on HN.
https://community.rationalreminder.ca/login
It started as a landing pad for listeners of the rational reminder podcast.
Many good subreddits. r/FIRE and if you're in the UK: r/UKPersonalFinance and r/FIREUK. There is likely similar for US and other countries but I'm less familiar with those.
UKPF is more like SO for finance than HN - occasional interesting stuff, fair amount of arcane situations you're not interested in, and a lot of broadly identical basic questions time and time again. But without flags/marking duplicate/voting to close.
On "Ask HN: Hacker News, but for Finance?" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557943 ) https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/ , https://bogleheads.org/forum/index.php , https://www.elitetrader.com/et/ were suggested.
For the uninitiated bogleheads are followers of the passive investment philosophy of John Bogle (founder of Vanguard) which in short is:
1. Set a standing order from your paycheck to your broker every month
2. Set an automatic buy of a total market ETF and a bond ETF on your broker
3. rebalance once or twice a year
Here's a Hacker News lookalike [1] for Machine Learning. You'll see that the latest post was 11 days ago, and the one before that 29 days ago and the one before 54. Most topics have one or zero comments. And ML is a much more popular topic than finance.
The great thing about HN is that it does not restrict the topics. People can bring up anything they find interesting. As soon as you want to limit the discussion to some specific thing, the audience drops by a few orders of magnitude.
So, I guess it's up to you to collect a number of different blogs and newsletter and follow them.
It almost goes without saying that you should subscribe to Matt Levine's newsletter [2]. Also, you can't go wrong by checking the blog of "Fed Guy" [3].
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
If somebody is telling you that you should do something without knowing anything about your personal financial circumstances or appetite for risk, then they should be ignored.
It is equally unlikely that you will be willing to sufficiently disclose your financial circumstances to unknown individuals in order to receive any sort of worthwhile advice.
The above advice applies across the spectrum, whether it's the usual crowd blindly saying "buy a passive ETF and forget about it" or pump & dumpers saying "buy XYZ shares because its the next ten bagger".
i would like to add, is there a HN for Law? primarily legal tech, OSS ideology, developments, ?
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UKPF is more like SO for finance than HN - occasional interesting stuff, fair amount of arcane situations you're not interested in, and a lot of broadly identical basic questions time and time again. But without flags/marking duplicate/voting to close.
What is SO?
Unlikely. Here's a Hacker News lookalike [1] for Machine Learning. You'll see that the latest post was 11 days ago, and the one before that 29 days ago and the one before 54. Most topics have one or zero comments. And ML is a much more popular topic than finance. The great thing about HN is that it does not restrict the topics. People can bring up anything they find interesting. As soon as you want to limit the discu…