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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by michaelteter »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #5

Reddit, but you have to carefully select your subs. And it's not very useful for politics, because it's very one-sided, very far left, and they ban you for any transgressions that don't fit the narrative.

... Very far left. How do you measure "far left"? Do you mean they are concerned with all people, and they don't suffer illusions of "I built my fortune on my own" (ignoring all the socialist infrastructure which enabled their success)?

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by ofalkaed »

ipcress_file wrote: post #6
ofalkaed wrote: post #2

Oddly enough I had been considering making a similar thread but asking for something akin to HN but with less non-tech news. Perhaps the question that both I and OP are asking is, does anyone know of a site that stays on topic? >Thoughts? If this doesn’t exist, would people be interested in it being created, and does anyone think it has a chance of taking off There is absolutely a market for it but it will eventually…

I think lobste.rs stays on topic (computers and programming).

Every time I go there the only threads which have any discussion tend to be AI/LLM threads, so technically on topic but I think my previous post should make it clear I am a humanities sort and as a humanities sort I have certain expectations of the STEM community and expect them to stay on their side of the fence. This seems completely reasonable and fair.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by antiraza »

If you are willing to slow down, Tildes.

Small, laid back, conversation focused, but the coverage is definitely more 'general.'

I personally find it really refreshing compared to something like reddit (or even here). It's small enough that the comments section don't feel like an artificial jostle for the fastest, most attention getting response -- and the community seems to maintain that culture well via both scale and rate of scaling.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by fake-name »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #8
rattray wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should we create a subreddit for this, with a news/politics focus but an hn vibe?

Good luck with that. Their moderation is too insane and not transparent for my taste. And, considering HN is quite far left, you won't create anything new really.

You think HN is left?

Ha.

HN is at best center-right.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

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Post by bpodgursky »

michaelteter wrote: post #13
bufferoverflow wrote: post #5

Reddit, but you have to carefully select your subs. And it's not very useful for politics, because it's very one-sided, very far left, and they ban you for any transgressions that don't fit the narrative.

... Very far left. How do you measure "far left"? Do you mean they are concerned with all people, and they don't suffer illusions of "I built my fortune on my own" (ignoring all the socialist infrastructure which enabled their success)?

Let's just say that if you got all your news from reddit, you would be very surprised that conservatives anywhere ever won an election.
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