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Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

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post #3

http://lobste.rs

Lobsters has better software but they never got enough traction to get any discussion flowing.

Apart from that the #1 story is just another stupid adver-article written for HN. The story is by differential.io and submitted by joshowens who works there. The same story was submitted to HN by the author with his coworker joshowens shilling in the comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6741554.

This kind of exploitation is happening a lot, "Next HN" will hopefully be more discerning about its members' motivations.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

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post #3

http://lobste.rs

Lobsters has better software but they never got enough traction to get any discussion flowing. Apart from that the #1 story is just another stupid adver-article written for HN. The story is by differential.io and submitted by joshowens who works there. The same story was submitted to HN by the author with his coworker joshowens shilling in the comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6741554 . This kind of exp…

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Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

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post #4

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ Although it's just programming (the rules say that if there's no code in the link, then you shouldn't post it).

/r/hwstartups, /r/compsci, /r/startups and a few other assorted subreddits make for a nice complement to HN.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

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post #8
post #4

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ Although it's just programming (the rules say that if there's no code in the link, then you shouldn't post it).

/r/hwstartups, /r/compsci, /r/startups and a few other assorted subreddits make for a nice complement to HN.

With the use of multi reddits I've found you can build up quite a nice suite of multireddits which supplements hackernews nicely, though you do tend to see quite a lot of cross posting of articles.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN?

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Subreddits!

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/

http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/

http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/

http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/

http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/

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