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Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?

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Post by nickpsecurity »

nicolashahn wrote: post #2

lobste.rs is basically HN without the politics.

Although it began that way, that's 100% inaccurate today. Most threads have low noise with high civility. The biggest, meta debates are about whether politics should be included or about a politically-incorrect topic/comment. The last debate had the voting majority, the politically-correct folks, push for every thread to allow for making political points or calling people out. Which they do here and there with debates following.

Most of the time it's chill, though. Just pointing out that it has a specific, political leaning that readers here may like, not like, or not care one way or the other.

Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?

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Post by Pxtl »

valec wrote: post #5
nicolashahn wrote: post #2

lobste.rs is basically HN without the politics.

tildes.net is similar in that it’s good but it does have politics

Very interested in getting in on taht when it starts opening up. To me there's a crisis of credibility in modern media, especially social media - contributors are so ephemerial and pseudonymous, it's too easy for sockpuppets, bots, paid posters, etc. to masquerade as journalists and average citizens.

A system that focuses on exclusivity and controlling who has the algorithmic equivalent of credibility on their platform is very interesting to me.

Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?

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Post by smithmayowa »

adamnemecek wrote: post #14
davb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).

what's your email?

hey do you mind inviting me too? email in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?

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Post by pookieinc »

As of a few years ago, I’ve taken up espresso as a (unfortunately expensive, but fun) side hobby. One of the communities I visit is home-barista, it’s a wonderful community full of people who love coffee, enjoy making it and sharing their recipes and get the hands deep in the more technical aspects of coffee-making. Other good forums are: coffeesnobs (australian, not as snobby as it sounds) and coffee-geek (European).

The beauty behind all this is that third wave coffee has really taken off and with it has followed a really cool, friendly, very global crowd.

Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

trpc wrote: post #12

I am going to get banned for this, but 4chan's /g/ is unironically a nice place

No, it's not. It's a terrible place full of extremely dumb and sad (but technologically curious) kids.

But it can be hilarious. Yesterday, there was an HN post and a /g/ thread about Intel's new CPU, and the discussion was so parallel -- the same noises of neuroticism and pessimism, but in HN delivered in pedantic paragraphs and on /g/ distilled in crude, biting brevity.

For that reason, I linked the thread and got downboated. I don't regret it.

Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?

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Post by davb »

adamnemecek wrote: post #14
davb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).

what's your email?

USER=dave

PLUS=hn

DOMAIN=davebarker

TLD=xyz

EMAIL=$USER+$PLUS@$DOMAIN.$TLD

Thank you very much!

Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?

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Post by nickpsecurity »

riku_iki wrote: post #19
nickpsecurity wrote: post #9

Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)

It doesn't look like lobsters have enough content for everyday reading..

Some days, the front page won't change much if at all from previous day. There will be stuff in Recent and Comments coming in that might be highly interesting. Some of these people will drop a whopper of a comment days after it's posted. I usually have stuff to read every day.

Checking now, fro added a paper on fuzzing for side channels in CPU's 30 min ago. Might have missed it if I just looked at morning feed but not later in day.

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