Ask HN: What are some good alternatives to HN? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by ivansavz » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 3:03 PM UTC

I recently signed up for hubski, which is very similar in style to HN, but uses a tagging system so you choose to follow only the topics you are interested in.

http://hubski.com/

So far it has been very good signal to noise...

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

#52

Post by xinkr » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 3:07 PM UTC

alg0rith wrote: post #2

HackerJews.com

Where is it possible to find the Hacker News theme btw?

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

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Post by blakesterz » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 3:13 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #16

MetaFilter. You have to pay $5 to post comments, and the comments are formatted in such a way as to discourage trolling, long digressions, and other annoying Internet comment features. The material is usually not amazingly interesting to me, but the community is very pleasant.

I'm not sure I'd call it an HN alternative, but I think you're right, it's generally nice around there, and well run. I guess my point here is I don't read mefi for the same reason I read HN.

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

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Post by Datsundere » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 3:48 PM UTC

/g/technology

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

#55

Post by en4bz » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

For C++ lovers I find that http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/ always has pretty good content.

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

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Post by joeyh » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:25 PM UTC

mailing lists

irc

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

#57

Post by wrongc0ntinent » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

milliams wrote: post #41

http://hckrnews.com/ to avoid the 'never made it to front page' problem.

This. And as was mentioned before, the new page (more crap, occasional spam, but lots of hidden gems).

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

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Post by mercurial » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

gits1225 wrote: post #10

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/

Frankly, r/programming is not that good. r/haskell is full of interesting things and has a great community, if Haskell is your thing.

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

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Post by angersock » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

Try going to the "new" section and upvoting content you would like to see. If we all don't do that, of course the site will get overrun with stupid kneejerk posts.

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

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Post by clarry » Sun, Nov 17, 2013, 4:59 PM UTC

t0 wrote: post #3

http://lobste.rs

It looked interesting and I even got an account. Then I found out I must enable JS to make a comment (yes yes, downvote me already). Oh well, I do still check what's listed on there every once in a while.