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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

krapp wrote: post #77
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I had never heard of lobsters, and just checked its front page and a couple of comments and ... is it Stockholm syndrome to say I prefer the HN design / look and feel? And is it unfair to lobsters to say the posts all seem very very familiar? Just asking as one is always worried about missing out on the next great thing, but the HN niche seems pretty well filled?

Lobste.rs is a curated, invite-only site where you can get banned if anyone you invite (or anyone they invite) causes problems, because those relationships are graphed. Every new member is a burden and every post a potential risk. Obviously, such a community would self-select for safe, uncontroversial content, and tend towards reposting things which have proven uncontroversial elsewhere. That said, I personally prefe…

So I am hostage to my friends comments, or only people with bad judgement invite others?

Sounds odd to punish the inviter

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by ironicaldiction »

qznc wrote: post #17

Yes, I would love to find that. Less web, less startup, less silicon valley, less brogrammers, but more C++/Fortran/Java, more depth, more performance, more BigCorp, more career. With people who are not impressed by the latest fad, because they have seen the same ten years ago. Unfortunately, the interesting guys to fill such a forum do not hang out on social platforms and bikeshed a lot. They are busy. Usually you c…

So make one and then try to migrate existing users over if you want that community.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by avinassh »

chirau wrote: post #60
sideproject wrote: post #39

How about creating your own? :) http://postatic.com Disclaimer - I run this site - shameless plug, I know.

Does it also have a algorithmic ranking model and is the algorithm customizable? Any chance of a self-hosted alternative? This looks awesome, I would love to talk more, I have been looking for something like this

> Any chance of a self-hosted alternative?

You could use code which powers HN itself [0]. Or you could use Telesco.pe [1].

[0] - https://github.com/wting/hackernews

[1] - http://www.telescopeapp.org

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by cblock811 »

r3bl wrote: post #54
kilimchoi wrote: post #38

http://www.slicedham.co/ for articles on software development. It pulls posts from the list of a few hundred blogs, https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs . There's even a weekly mailing list.

I don't like the design of it at all. I would prefer just using some RSS reader to get the latest news posted on those blogs.

An engineer talking about design. That's new :p

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by hollerith »

atmosx wrote: post #40
corobo wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As keybase is an invite only alpha system right now this flagged in my mind as a decently disguised advert. Seems interesting but can you really require someone to have a profile on an invite only system?

Anything that can prove that you are a adequate for lobste.rs community and not a troll will do. Keybase offers a quick way to identify someone. I know it's not perfect, but my time is limited. However, feel free to drop an email and that I'll see what I can do. ps. I'm not affiliated with 'keybase' in any way.

>Keybase offers a quick way to identify someone.

Could someone please explain this statement? I know Keybase is a way for people to publish public keys, but is there any cost for a troll to create an account on Keybase with a pseudonym? Does creating a Keybase account require a lot of un-automatable steps or a waiting period or something?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by krapp »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #91
krapp wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lobste.rs is a curated, invite-only site where you can get banned if anyone you invite (or anyone they invite) causes problems, because those relationships are graphed. Every new member is a burden and every post a potential risk. Obviously, such a community would self-select for safe, uncontroversial content, and tend towards reposting things which have proven uncontroversial elsewhere. That said, I personally prefe…

So I am hostage to my friends comments, or only people with bad judgement invite others? Sounds odd to punish the inviter

Obviously, you'll be fine if you only invite the right sort of people, and you'll be better if you never invite anyone at all.

A community run on the premise that the Eternal September effect must be avoided at any cost, inevitably, will come to see new membership as toxic.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by enedil »

jordigh wrote: post #45
enedil wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you kindly send me an invitation? I'm on Twitter as @enedil1

I was going to offer an invitation, but I don't know you, and I cannot get enough information about you to ascertain that you are not going to be an unpleasant fellow. How about this: tell me what you think about women in science and technology. That is an important question to me.

Ok. I'll try to describe my point of view as detailed as I can - you shall know I'm not an Anglo-saxon, but a Pole. So, coming to the real question:

Looking at women and science - I know some great woman that were succesful in science. I can note one. I don't know if she would be pleased, so I'll refer to her only with name. So, her name is Zosia. She is going to represent Poland at International Olympiad of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She is also a very timid person. And what I want to say - I really like working with her. Not to say I'm an astronome (cause I'm not), but every single piece of work in class is really enyoing. And only because of her traits of charactere and knowledge. What was that example for? To point out that working in science with women is not really different that work with men who are on some intellectual level that I can accept.

I must say, that women in technology are a rare fration of the spectrum (at least in Poland). Since I'm 17, I have not really worked in a real environment full of various people. However, what I can thing of this affair is that being to work well is working without looking at gender of co-workers.

Maybe, if you'd like to ask me some others questions, I could answer. I really like issues from cognitive theory, formal logic and pure Maths.

Cheers! And I hope you can believe I'm a human being!

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by sideproject »

_lce0 wrote: post #84
aembleton wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't checked all around the site but on http://www.postatic.com/admin/hello/tour this stood out: `User your own domain name` should be `Use your own domain name`

just another kindly heads up .. you have a in the section ;) Anyways great product! I wonder if there's a demo or something to check how this works.

Ahh. I should fix those.

You can check out our own Q&A site (eating our own dog-food). We use Postatic to run our own community.

http://self.postatic.com

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?

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Post by sideproject »

chirau wrote: post #60
sideproject wrote: post #39

How about creating your own? :) http://postatic.com Disclaimer - I run this site - shameless plug, I know.

Does it also have a algorithmic ranking model and is the algorithm customizable? Any chance of a self-hosted alternative? This looks awesome, I would love to talk more, I have been looking for something like this

We don't have a self-hosted model yet. But we'll probably look into it in the future. :)

We do have a simple ranking algorithm. Hmm, how could we allow our users customize this... that's a good question.

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