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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by Inconel » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 1:29 PM UTC

I wouldn't say these are comparable to HN but r/cableporn and r/welding might be interesting to HN posters.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by Inconel » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 1:36 PM UTC

i336_ wrote: post #9

Right now the only replies list reddit and lobste.rs. That's really depressing :/ Are there really no other decent online communities out there? I'm increasingly disenfranchised with reddit and lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea). I've been poking around the various *chans to see if I can brave the noise and chaos in the hope that I'll occasionally find a similar calibre of info as what I find on here.

If you have any interest in firearms or warfare/military history, /k/ can be surprisingly good at times along with operatorchan. Those are obviously very niche though.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 1:36 PM UTC

hga wrote: post #4

dorianm wrote: post #3

There is https://lobste.rs which is great (not a subreddit but it's very similar)

Signup by invitation only, and having retired before it started I don't know anyone in it who I would feel comfortable asking for one.

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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by SturgeonsLaw » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 1:47 PM UTC

i336_ wrote: post #9

Right now the only replies list reddit and lobste.rs. That's really depressing :/ Are there really no other decent online communities out there? I'm increasingly disenfranchised with reddit and lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea). I've been poking around the various *chans to see if I can brave the noise and chaos in the hope that I'll occasionally find a similar calibre of info as what I find on here.

Unless the title's been edited, it does say "tech-related subreddits", one would expect reddit to feature heavily in the replies :)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by homarp » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 1:49 PM UTC

thewhitetulip wrote: post #5

For Go, it is http://reddit.com/r/golang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036890

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by blahi » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

misotaur wrote: post #2

/r/truereddit Just interesting stories and essays,a lot like HN but slower(and no show my program threads)

true reddit is people who are desperate to feel like special little snowflakes, so they are ready to believe every conspiracy, everything and anything at all that will enable them to "enlighten" their friends about the evil lizard people. Everything is bad, the world is going to shit, the apocalypse is just around the corner.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by blahi » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC

/r/backpropaganda

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by germ » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 2:08 PM UTC

/g/ and /prog/ can be useful. There's tons of noise and beginner/toy threads, but competent devs can be found.

Can't speak for the other chans but I recall a chan with a competent user base dedicated to programming/hacking/rigbuilding a few years back. 1337chan or something? Abused the green on black theme if anyone else remembers.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 2:22 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by rainingmonkey » Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 2:23 PM UTC

ssh einchan@einchan.god.jp password: ein