We need sub-HNs!
Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#32Reddit has gotten better recently, as long as you stay off the popular subreddits. Pick your 10 favorite hobbies or interests, and subscribe to those subreddits. It's got to be specific: not programming, but programming in Java; not electronics, but amateur radio; etc. (I will admit I enjoy r/AskReddit, which is where people write short stories in response to a prompt in the form of a loaded question. Ask Metafilter…
In my experience, any sub-reddits in my interests are filled with incredibly shallow or meme-filled posts. Never have I once thought to myself 'This subreddit is way better than [established forum/community] for this'. Maybe it's the short lifespan of posts, or voting style that promotes snark/pandering type posts, but I have yet to come across an awesome subreddit. Also, I agree with you that the more specific you get the less this becomes an issue, but at that point it's usually just a bunch of ghost-subreddits with < 1K users and a single post every odd month.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#33MetaFilter. You have to pay $5 to post comments, and the comments are formatted in such a way as to discourage trolling, long digressions, and other annoying Internet comment features. The material is usually not amazingly interesting to me, but the community is very pleasant.
MetaFilter has remained pleasant for years. Turns out $5 is a big enough hurdle to keep it sane.
It's the same with The Something Awful Forums. It is $10 to join, and it really helps keep the trolls out. One of the best communities on the web.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#34Reddit has gotten better recently, as long as you stay off the popular subreddits. Pick your 10 favorite hobbies or interests, and subscribe to those subreddits. It's got to be specific: not programming, but programming in Java; not electronics, but amateur radio; etc. (I will admit I enjoy r/AskReddit, which is where people write short stories in response to a prompt in the form of a loaded question. Ask Metafilter…
/r/programming is getting better lately, don't see the problem with it.
I suggest /r/lowlevel , /r/linux , /r/machinelearning , /r/math , /r/physics , /r/electronics and whatever else you'd like.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#35Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#36If you are into JavaScript, http://echojs.com is pretty good.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#37http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm has some good discussion related to bootstrapped startups, and seems to have a good community.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#38I think the only satisfactory alternative to HN, which could attract hackers and hackers only would be some sort of a termminal application, and you would be able to browse it through terminal only, that way we could get rid off all the classy people and hence the drama/politics posts it will be a hacker's paradise like HN used to be.
The only question is, how do we do it ?
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#39I like http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
It is focused on programming languages and PL research
Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?
#40Subreddits! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/ http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/ http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/ http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/ http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/