I find myself in a generally US-centric tech bubble and want to break out of it; what other websites do people use to find interesting global tech and science news?
Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?
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Re: Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?
#2Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but I made a site using the (Arc) HN code that is about retro-computing and gaming: https://twostopbits.com/news
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#3I find Lobste.rs generally has more nuanced discussion about tech (and only tech, non tech stories are removed) and fewer hot takes, but it's also a heck of a lot "quieter" (i.e. much less volume of both stories and comments - the current #2, #3 and #4 articles on the homepage are 12+ hours old)
It also isn't intrinsically linked to the VC scene like HN, which may or may not be a plus/minus, depending on your views.
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#4I find Lobste.rs generally has more nuanced discussion about tech (and only tech, non tech stories are removed) and fewer hot takes, but it's also a heck of a lot "quieter" (i.e. much less volume of both stories and comments - the current #2, #3 and #4 articles on the homepage are 12+ hours old) It also isn't intrinsically linked to the VC scene like HN, which may or may not be a plus/minus, depending on your views.
I tried getting access to the site once but gave up as the invitiation thing was a bit of a gatekeeper for me (by design)
Re: Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?
#5I find Lobste.rs generally has more nuanced discussion about tech (and only tech, non tech stories are removed) and fewer hot takes, but it's also a heck of a lot "quieter" (i.e. much less volume of both stories and comments - the current #2, #3 and #4 articles on the homepage are 12+ hours old) It also isn't intrinsically linked to the VC scene like HN, which may or may not be a plus/minus, depending on your views.
I tried getting access to the site once but gave up as the invitiation thing was a bit of a gatekeeper for me (by design)
There are people on HN (or probably other sites, maybe Reddit?) who will invite "strangers", but typically we want to have some idea what the person is like, as an invite creates a permanent link (on the site) between the inviter and the invitee.
If the invitee turns out to be a spammer, or posts a bunch of hate speech etc, the inviter may be held responsible for the invitee's actions. This isn't a hypothetical, it's explicitly explained in on the invite form, and I've seen cases where people were banned because they invited people who then acted spammy.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried getting access to the site once but gave up as the invitiation thing was a bit of a gatekeeper for me (by design)
There are people on HN (or probably other sites, maybe Reddit?) who will invite "strangers", but typically we want to have some idea what the person is like, as an invite creates a permanent link (on the site) between the inviter and the invitee. If the invitee turns out to be a spammer, or posts a bunch of hate speech etc, the inviter may be held responsible for the invitee's actions. This isn't a hypothetical, it's…
Yea I understand the reasoning, but my general apathy prevented me from going that route - it was a "do I care enough about to go throuugh finding someone and convincing them to vouch for me?" type thing, and the few times I've wanted to comment, I've just given up.
I'm not against the invite-only system, having been a forum moderator for several years, but I'm happy to just be a consumer/observer of the conversation rather than a participant.
Re: Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?
#7Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but I made a site using the (Arc) HN code that is about retro-computing and gaming: https://twostopbits.com/news
Wow neat, I wasn't aware of any true HN clones using the actual source! Was it difficult to get it up and running?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are people on HN (or probably other sites, maybe Reddit?) who will invite "strangers", but typically we want to have some idea what the person is like, as an invite creates a permanent link (on the site) between the inviter and the invitee. If the invitee turns out to be a spammer, or posts a bunch of hate speech etc, the inviter may be held responsible for the invitee's actions. This isn't a hypothetical, it's…
Yea I understand the reasoning, but my general apathy prevented me from going that route - it was a "do I care enough about to go throuugh finding someone and convincing them to vouch for me?" type thing, and the few times I've wanted to comment, I've just given up. I'm not against the invite-only system, having been a forum moderator for several years, but I'm happy to just be a consumer/observer of the conversation…
Send me an email, it's in my profile.
Re: Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?
#9Computer tech is sufficiently US-centric that many people here order US-American keyboards for their dev boxes. (I just embrace the suck and learned to use option-shift-5)
There was an attempt several years ago to get a francophone free-software news aggregator going, but I don't find it anymore.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/ ?
https://www.toutiao.com/ ? (I did manage to navigate to what, judging from the screenshots, was some kind of tech aggregation, but as with big US platforms, I have no idea how to link directly there)
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