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

Post by baq » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 5:58 PM UTC

DrAwdeOccarim wrote: post #29

franciscop wrote: post #15

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.

Post by DrAwdeOccarim » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 6:00 PM UTC

cli wrote: post #48

DrAwdeOccarim wrote: post #28

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.c…

What are the main differences between the three biotech websites? From a quick skim, it seems that Fiercebiotech and endpts are strictly superior to biospace for someone who is not actively looking for jobs in that space.

Post by deepnotderp » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 6:13 PM UTC

Post by tyingq » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

ajb wrote: post #27

I'm not either of these,so there might be better ones, but: Pilots: pprune.org Maritime: gcaptain.com

Post by nsgi » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

always_good wrote: post #56

arka2147483647 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To be fair, /r/programming is probably one of the most toxic subreddits itself. I've never found another subreddit where everyone is as unbearably angry and negative. Too many programmers suffer from social issues for a laissez faire community to be a fun place to frequent.