Ask HN: Alternatives to HN

Are there other similar sites to HN which focuses more on technical topics, constructive discussions and other interesting things?

http://lamernews.com/ although it's quiet.

There's http://sidebar.io/ for web/mobile design topics.

https://lobste.rs/ - I am not a member, but it looks very similar

That's an alternative, but not a particularly good one, IMO.

The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being due to their knowledge of ARM opcodes and their interaction with GCC or whatever else the subject is.

The biggest risks I see for HN are:

* Simply getting too big. Not much to do about that.

* Noisy political articles (like, say, about China...) that attract people who like noisy political discussions.

* Outrage articles. There are a lot of horrible injustices in the world. Enough to completely drown out tech and startup news, and in the grand scheme of things, often much more important than, say, Scala vs Clojure.