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Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Surprised no one said the obvious: Reddit. Find the right subreddit and you'll see high-ish quality posts on the topic. Javascript, Node.js, etc.

There's a heap of good info and contacts there. Though the quality is far more varied, and generally goes down significantly once a sub hits a certain size.

It seems to me that the less informed the majority of an audience is, the less effective a voting system is at incentivising insightful / productive discussion.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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For music production, it might be Gearslutz: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/

Reading the forum archives has been blowing my mind, seeing forum replies from the sound engineers on my favorite albums. Butch Vig did a thread answering questions about Nirvana's Nevermind [1], and Charlie Clouser was recently answering some questions about the Quake soundtrack & Astro-Creep: 2000 [2].

[1] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-a-with-butch-vig/398321-ho...

[2] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-for-picture/911330-qua...

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Surprised no one said the obvious: Reddit. Find the right subreddit and you'll see high-ish quality posts on the topic. Javascript, Node.js, etc.

The problem with reddit is that there are a lot of "Shits and Giggles" reddits, and this tends to bleed into the "Serious" reddits.

For example; someone is browsing r/funny and clicks a link or two and find themselves in r/programming, or whatever, but keeps acting as if they are in r/funny.

And so your serious discussion is full of funny comments which someone has to clean up or let the discussion deteriorate.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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Surprised no one said the obvious: Reddit. Find the right subreddit and you'll see high-ish quality posts on the topic. Javascript, Node.js, etc.

The problem with reddit is that there are a lot of "Shits and Giggles" reddits, and this tends to bleed into the "Serious" reddits. For example; someone is browsing r/funny and clicks a link or two and find themselves in r/programming, or whatever, but keeps acting as if they are in r/funny. And so your serious discussion is full of funny comments which someone has to clean up or let the discussion deteriorate.

True, but in the good subreddits the downvotes are brutal enough to deter or drop the offending post to the bottom.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

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The comments aren't nearly as rich, but for biotech I like https://www.biospace.com/ and https://www.fiercebiotech.com/. Though they are typically day(s) behind https://endpts.com/. Twitter is big for biotech, too. People like https://twitter.com/BradLoncar, https://twitter.com/JohnCendpts, https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein, https://twitter.com/CarolineYLChen, https://twitter.com/megtirrell, https://twitter.com/ldtimmerman, https://twitter.com/matthewherper covers a lot of it.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

#29

Surprised no one said the obvious: Reddit. Find the right subreddit and you'll see high-ish quality posts on the topic. Javascript, Node.js, etc.

Reddit is surprisingly bad for biotech. r/biotech is usually students asking how to get into biotech, and r/science doesn't allow news reports (non peer-reviewed things). So there isn't really "science news" kind of discussions; really quite disappointing. Would love to know of any people frequent that have rich commentary.
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