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

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Post by detaro »

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.

The "find the right subreddit" isn't something that works universally though. Yes, there are good ones, but it seems almost random for which topics they exist and for which they don't. Even if they keep the memes and joke comments in check, many more are full of endless repeats of the same basics. E.g. I'm always surprised how many hobby-topics are dominated by "I just bought $thingEveryoneRecommends, here is a photo of it, and the box it came in!", with droves of comments of how awesome $thing is.

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

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Post by dotsh »

bewuethr wrote: post #60
dotsh wrote: post #20

Design: https://designernews.co Go: https://golangnews.com

GN looks like a neat Go-specific HN clone, I'll start keeping an eye on it. Unfortunately, it seems that there are almost no comments: from the 24 topics I see on the front page, only two have comments. Do you feel the submissions are high quality? Or what makes you recommend it?

I'm looking at GN because I can not keep up with other places like r/golang or twitter and here I can view the most important information once a week without any problem.

Also on r/golang there are not too many comments. It seems to me that this is a problem of the entire golang community, nobody wants or have time to comment... this language makes you lazy. :)

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

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Post by nitrogen »

galfarragem wrote: post #11

On architecture (buildings not IT) there isn't nothing like HN (high signal crowd curated news). At most there are reasonable good news curated by one/few individuals. The task is herculean and will be, by definition, highly biased. Hints: http://afasiaarchzine.com/ https://divisare.com/

A coworker of mine recommends http://skyscraperpage.com, but that probably doesn't serve as an HN for architects.

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

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Post by nitrogen »

http://avsforum.com/ isn't as high signal as HN, but it does serve as something analogous for home theater (or it used to years ago when I used to visit it; it may have deteriorated). That's where I got the impetus to start my reverse engineering project to write a Linux driver for an HDTV tuner way back when.

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

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Post by DrAwdeOccarim »

spraak wrote: post #58
DrAwdeOccarim wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You should check out DrAwdeOccarim's comment below for some biotech links

I'm me.

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

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Post by deepnotderp »

smueller1234 wrote: post #68
kingosticks wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it alive? There's one story from Jan this year but then the one before that was 2016.

Oh, you should be looking for the forums! Not as likely as they used to be. But I have yet to find anything similar. Sidenote: if anybody has suggestions for sources of in depth articles on computer architecture of the level of quality that David Kanter used to produce for RWT, I'd be very grateful.

David Schor at wikichip produces some nice stuff

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

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Post by rocketpastsix »

justherefortart wrote: post #62
SyneRyder wrote: post #23

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/…

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php Is pretty good for guitar / amp / etc info. (following your Music thread/theme) Oh and: http://www.tdpri.com/

I spent hours as a teenager on the Gear Page, that place was great.

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

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Post by valtism »

One of the largest drivers that took me away from engineering (my bachelor) and into IT was the quality of online discussion and strong communities. I love how easy it is to stay up to date with the current trends and technologies, and the level of support from others who have solved the challenges that you currently face.
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