Other sites to follow:
https://sciurls.com science
https://techurls.com tech
https://mathurls.com math
https://finurls.com finance
https://tuxurls.com LINUX
https://physurls.com physics
https://skimfeed.com pick category to skim at top
https://alltop.com pick category to skim at top
Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
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Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#42I 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.
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Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#43https://www.bogleheads.org/ is somewhat similar in terms of active discussion for investing and personal finance. Unfortunately, it’s in a forum format so threaded discussion is a bit difficult.
Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#44I'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 used to follow a lot of communities, but many of them have died out over the years for various reasons.
One of the things I've been trying to do recently is to get out and attend local meetups. The resolution and depth of the discussion IRL can be much deeper. And it makes me realize that most people aren't on Hacker News!
Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#45Honestly, this is the wrong question, but I understand the intent. What you really should be asking is "Where is the online community for your hobby/interest?" The thing with HN, is it works for the startup/hacker/tech community, and that community has evolved here over time. If you want a link/topic sharing site for other interests, the answer is almost always going to be a subreddit. But if what you really want is…
Yes and no. Yes, you're spot on.
And yet I find that my favorite posts & comment threads here are the ones that *aren't* about tech, startups, etc. And I'm always amazed at how no matter what the topic there's always someone who seems to know what they're talking about. Of course there are always many people who think they know what they're talking about :)
Perhaps it's less "Community about X" but rather "Community of people who are interested in X" as there's more likelihood that you'd have other shared interests? Not sure.
Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#46Not sure if you can really find something like HN for other topics. HN works as it works exactly because of the topic and audience. Same structure might not work for other things
Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#47A previous time this was asked on HN, someone linked to these, which I quite like: https://sciurls.com/ https://mathurls.com/ https://techurls.com/ https://finurls.com/ https://physurls.com/ https://devurls.com/ https://hwurls.com/ https://tuxurls.com/
This is very neat. I found a new homepage to use it seems!
Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#48A previous time this was asked on HN, someone linked to these, which I quite like: https://sciurls.com/ https://mathurls.com/ https://techurls.com/ https://finurls.com/ https://physurls.com/ https://devurls.com/ https://hwurls.com/ https://tuxurls.com/
Somewhat to my surprise, these appear to be getting very little traffic
https://www.similarweb.com/website/devurls.com/#ranking
although I don't know how similarweb gets its data
Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#49I am making digglu.com, which is supposed to be old-digg-like link aggregator site. I would have it out by now if only I could stop procrastinating T_T
Re: Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
#50A previous time this was asked on HN, someone linked to these, which I quite like: https://sciurls.com/ https://mathurls.com/ https://techurls.com/ https://finurls.com/ https://physurls.com/ https://devurls.com/ https://hwurls.com/ https://tuxurls.com/
don't need to save all of these, they all belong to the same network, just check their menu icon on top right
They’ll have a urlurls.com for these