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Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by beshrkayali »

sgdesign wrote: post #31
thaumaturgy wrote: post #8

I have a somewhat radical, sadly not novel suggestion: build what you're looking for. I now have a semi-private "HN Reader" which has completely broken my HN habit while still feeding me stuff I might be interested in. Because I built it, I can make it do anything I want. I've started to turn it into a slightly broader search engine so that I can find the things that I'm looking for; I got sick of seeing search engin…

If anybody wants an easy way to set up their own HN, may I suggest taking a look at Telescope? http://telesc.pe/ It's a real-time, open source HN clone built on Meteor, with features like invite-only mode, notifications, and a lot more stuff. And since it's open source, if something is missing you can always code it yourself and contribute it back to the project.

This is pretty cool! I've been working with Meteor for a few weeks, but haven't heard of it before.

Forking!

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by bhousel »

riffraff wrote: post #19
jacquesc wrote: post #6

http://lobste.rs seems like exactly what you want. It's a good community, give it a try

on the topic, I dare ask for an invite to lobste.rs if someone has one lying around. I promise I won't be an ass. (Cause a week ago I reached the threshold of wanting to leave a comment enough times)

invite just sent..

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by Hawkee »

Well here's my shameless plug. I've been building http://hawkee.com for many, many years more or less as a hobby. Lately I've been trying to fill the void between GitHub, StackOverflow and even HN. I don't want to say too much, but if the goal is unclear then maybe I've still got more work to do.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by buster »

blissland wrote: post #36
p4bl0 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess something like the possibility to have a mobile application (either web based or native app) which would be usable (the tiny up- and down-vote arrows of HN are not easy to use using a finger on a touchscreen) and which would actually work by not relying on html-parsing or search kludge.

>> I guess something like the possibility to have a mobile application See http://ihackernews.com/

That's a website not a mobile application.
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