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

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Post by NoodleIncident »

SnowProblem wrote: post #46
Widdershin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made a multi-reddit out of most of these and some more mentioned in this thread in case anyone wants one. http://www.reddit.com/user/Widdershiny/m/hackernews

Perfect, thanks for sharing. Now if only we could subscribe to multi-reddits.

The "create a copy" function is probably as good as it gets.

I think it would be awesome if reddit were to blur the lines between subreddits and multireddits. Many defaults have huge lists of dedicated subreddits for stuff banned from the default in the sidebar. If the defaults were multireddits newcomers could incorporate or exclude these specific subreddits into their version of the default multi.

Of course, I'm almost certainly underestimating how impossible it would be to integrate the two like that. Still fun to consider though.

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

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Post by snarkyturtle »

turnersr wrote: post #8

http://www.reddit.com/r/REMath/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/ http://www.reddit.com/r/lowlevel/ http://www.reddit.com/r/vrd/ http://www.reddit.com/r/systems/ http://www.reddit.com/r/math/ http://www.reddit.com/r/types/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dependent_types/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Coq/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/ http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/ http://www.reddit.com…

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

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

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

Cover a lot of areas that HN covers too.

A couple of more specific subreddits:

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

http://www.reddit.com/r/node (nodejs)

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

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

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Post by burntsushi »

Spittie wrote: post #41
ColinWright wrote: post #2

http://lobste.rs

I really wish HN would have tags, that's the killer feature of lobster for me (Someone posted http://newshack.io/ a while ago, which is an interface for HN with automatically generated tags, but I don't find it as good). I've mixed feelings instead toward it being invite only - From one side, the fact that your account is something "precious" can encourage smart/intelligent discussions, and it's also hard for trolls/…

Lobsters has an invitation queue that you can enter. That's how I joined. I got an invite in about an hour.

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

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Post by stcredzero »

jamesbritt wrote: post #47
ColinWright wrote: post #2

http://lobste.rs

People who might like a Lobsters invite should make their E-mail known in their profile. (Having some contact info in your HN profile is probably a good idea in general. I think the likelihood of spam is pretty low.)

My email is in my profile (human readable)

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

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Post by Spittie »

turnersr wrote: post #8

http://www.reddit.com/r/REMath/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/ http://www.reddit.com/r/lowlevel/ http://www.reddit.com/r/vrd/ http://www.reddit.com/r/systems/ http://www.reddit.com/r/math/ http://www.reddit.com/r/types/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dependent_types/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Coq/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/ http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/ http://www.reddit.com…

Thanks for those, some are great.

This is my list, more "sysadmin"-ey:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Post by wslh »

grimgrin wrote: post #50
Widdershin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made a multi-reddit out of most of these and some more mentioned in this thread in case anyone wants one. http://www.reddit.com/user/Widdershiny/m/hackernews

An alternative, 100x uglier version: http://reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy+Clojure+coding+compsc... Maybe someone would prefer it linked this way, though.

lol, I didn't know that you can practice algebra with Reddit!
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