Ask HN: Best IRC channels? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by jayflux » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 2:37 PM UTC

#web on freenode for web development

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

girvo wrote: post #4

I hang out on Freenode, in #nimrod, ##php, #elementary-dev and a couple of others. I'd love to know some good security ones to idle in; I've got a bit of experience in it and am trying to expand it some more, and would love a place to ask questions regarding web security and the like.

##security (Freenode) is the channel to go.

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by emily_b » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 2:41 PM UTC

#web

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by cjstewart88 » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

You're welcome to join #nirc, it's a channel originally created for https://github.com/cjstewart88/nirc but its since turned into a hangout for old coworkers and friends. We are all developers. Sometimes we are helping each other and other times we are talking about random shit... or in the event someone has a nirc question, we talk about that!

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 2:50 PM UTC

pdpi wrote: post #53

quchen wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think merijn got the highscore in the conversation though :-P

I think the whole channel joining in on the "we're going to troll you back by being super nice" is the real winner.

And turning half-trolls into students like an Aikido move.

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by airnomad » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

#irssi on freenode, really helpful people

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by portmanteaufu » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 3:54 PM UTC

#rust on irc.mozilla.org. They're a super helpful bunch.

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

#68

Post by progamler » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 3:59 PM UTC

Networks, #networker in ircnet and #ix in /irc.terahertz.net

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by soapdog » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:03 PM UTC

irc.mozilla.org has a lot of cool channels

Re: Ask HN: Best IRC channels?

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Post by judk » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:08 PM UTC

dserban wrote: post #12

There is one particular use of IRC channels that is insanely useful, that I'd like to share. On various programming language channels, there are ad-hoc expression evaluation bots that experienced people use to guide newcomers through the intricacies of the language. If you're new to Haskell, for example, what you can do is grab the logs for the past 3 years, grep for "> " (used to invoke the evaluator) and you have i…

Today you can just follow HaskellTips on twitter. Much less hassle and clutter