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Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

#71

Anyone know of a "hacker news minus politics and marketing"?

So, no discussion of free software?

I just want to talk about how to build cool shit I don't want to hear about licenses or crap about how me sharing my code with restrictions isn't really "open source", so no, nothing about "free software" . Stop trying to "gotcha" random people with stupid questions.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

#73

Anyone know of a "hacker news minus politics and marketing"?

I hate to be that guy, but literally nothing is apolitical. Hn minus explicitly political content is is just status quo maintenance news.

My eyes cannot roll harder, I think they have also gimbal locked.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Art and music topics do appear on HN front page, but only when they satisfy intellectual curiosity. Sharing art or music itself rarely does this, but I remember recently seeing an acid house generator, and another had a constellation of electronic music samples along a long page.

I remember the acid house generator, but I missed that constellation of samples sounds really interesting. Would love to see it if you had a link.

Found it, and after a few months since it was posted, I was misremembering the scope of the list; it’s significantly more than just electronic music.

https://everynoise.com/

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

#76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, no discussion of free software?

I just want to talk about how to build cool shit I don't want to hear about licenses or crap about how me sharing my code with restrictions isn't really "open source", so no, nothing about "free software" . Stop trying to "gotcha" random people with stupid questions.

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Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Not quite like HN, but a true old-fashioned forum for language learning is 'A Language Learner's Forum'. It branched off from 'How-to-learn-any-language' when it went down in 2015 and has a good load of knowledge available and more with each post

forum.language-learners.org/

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

#80

I suspect statistically, the HN for X is HN. A topic silo encourages people to behave in ways that might help them reach the top of the silo. Getting to the top is expedited by pushing other people down. Even worse, it is expedited by driving out expertise. The dynamics of HN prevent that. Topics so broad that being way outside your domain is the normal state of encountering an HN topic for everyone. Nobody has a wel…

I am trying to imagine the reaction an artist or musician would get to "Show HN: here is some art I do" and it is at least 50% "what is this doing here, HN is for programmer/startup stuff". I am pretty sure the HN for X, where X is "art" or "music", is not HN. I am also finding myself tempted to do exactly this with regards to the graphic novel I drew a few years back, just to see how badly it performs.

We just got an email from a painter the other day and I encouraged him to post his stuff here. We'll see if he does. Admittedly he only knows about HN because he's also a programmer.
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