/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.
Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#42The classic, slashdot.org
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#43Right 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.
> lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea).
I visited lobste.rs once, liked what I saw, realized it was invite only and then I never went back there.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#44There was a good discussion of this a while back -- one user here made a multi-reddit of the suggested subreddits, in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255336
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#45Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#46Does anyone participate on MetaFilter ($)?
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#47http://reddit.com/r/programming Top Stories are almost same
The level of discussion is not as high as here though IMO.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#48https://barnacl.es/ (Barnacles) is a ~strong~ young community of tech-related news with emphasis on bootstrapping and launching products.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#49https://barnacl.es/ (Barnacles) is a ~strong~ young community of tech-related news with emphasis on bootstrapping and launching products.
I think the request was for subreddits though.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#50Is there anywhere that covers technology/scientific development well? (Non-software). I'm always looking for those kinds of things (new sensor, scientific methods, medical advances). But have never found a good forum for this.
/r/futurology, also /r/science