Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

Post by mietek » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:39 AM UTC

_pmf_ wrote: post #34

greyman wrote: post #26

I have found only two such sites so far: 1) reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests 2) Google+ - also quite good, but one needs to do some work, namely to find the right communities, pages and people to follow. But if you are asking about sites with the same "genre" as HN (the same functionality), then no, I haven't found alternative to HN.

> reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests Can you recommend some subreddits beside /r/programming and the subreddits mentioned in the sidebar of /r/programming)? I have not found a generic software engineering subreddit (probably without any web development content), which is quite strange.

Post by mietek » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:41 AM UTC

conroy wrote: post #15

tezza wrote: post #7

https://lobste.rs/ - I am not a member, but it looks very similar

If anyone would like an invite, send me an email or reply here.

Post by fcambus » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 10:53 AM UTC

ameyakarve wrote: post #48

EchoJS is pretty nice for JS stuff

Post by dreen » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 11:09 AM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #13

Slashdot, if you don't mind a heavy dose of Internet Meme along with your Interesting Discussion. There are also sites which focus more on specific topics... if you're into server-side Java stuff, there's http://theserverside.com , if you're into programming language research, there's http://lambda-the-ultimate.org , etc., etc. And a lot of the more niche subreddits are actually pretty good. Stay away from /r/funny,…

Post by ikonos_de » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 11:14 AM UTC