Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by slipperlobster » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #5

I really like Tildes https://tildes.net/ which is less focused, more about everything (god I wish I could frontpage an article about sports on HN) but has a much higher ratio of discussions to links (e.g. Ask HN is a joke) I have invites.

Would you be able to share one invite to Tildes?

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by crossroadsguy » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:15 PM UTC

This might help https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sites+like+hn

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by Bondi_Blue » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:20 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #5

I really like Tildes https://tildes.net/ which is less focused, more about everything (god I wish I could frontpage an article about sports on HN) but has a much higher ratio of discussions to links (e.g. Ask HN is a joke) I have invites.

Not to be confused with https://tilde.news

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by dkwr » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:20 PM UTC

forlorn wrote: post #4

https://lobste.rs/

I'm torn between two sides when thinking about lobste.rs On one side they have imho high quality content. But on the other side they can keep this just because their registration is invite-only. Which leads to fewer/smaller discussions. On HN I don't like everything, but I read a lot more discussions even about topics which I'm not interested in.

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by ibz » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:28 PM UTC

https://stacker.news is the equivalent of HN for bitcoiners and the only one I read daily besides this one...

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by Bilters » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:30 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #5

I really like Tildes https://tildes.net/ which is less focused, more about everything (god I wish I could frontpage an article about sports on HN) but has a much higher ratio of discussions to links (e.g. Ask HN is a joke) I have invites.

Yeah I would love to get an invite too (if you have another spare one)

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by qingcharles » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:30 PM UTC

cobertos wrote: post #2

I've stopped following pretty much everything except HN. Which is unfortunate (though sorta nice for my mental health), but my interests right now are also narrow. I'd suggest Lemmy? It still feels small, and has decent activity for self-hosting and homelab stuff after the whole reddit API debacle. That's where I plan to put more effort once I stand up my own ActivityPub server. Id like to try Mastodon again too but…

I only visit two sites without question each day: BBC News and HN. And that already occupies too much of my day.

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:31 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by eatonphil » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:34 PM UTC

There are some excellent topic-specific subreddits IMO. Like:

  - /r/ProgrammingLanguages
  - /r/Compilers
  - /r/EmuDev
  - /r/DatabaseDevelopment (disclosure, I run this one)

Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

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Post by gcrout » Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 2:42 PM UTC

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