Ask HN: more sites like HN • Hacker News Board

Reddit's subreddits are really a nice place to be. Not the funny/wtf/vidoes/politics etc, which will overwhelm you quite fast. There are some really useful subreddit which are of good quality, but because of their smaller sizes, are difficult to know about.

I feel these subreddits are worth a try: compsci (http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci) explainlikeiamfive (http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/) programming (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming) (There are a links to other subreddits of similar type in the sidebars of these reddits, which can be further explored).

One caveat is that lots of articles/links/posts from those places turn up here at HN as well. So there is factor of duplicates involved.

All any of your interests might have its own subreddit. If it exists and there isn't too much trash, those can be looked at.

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by debacle » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 2:13 PM UTC

readwriteweb.com is useful if you're interested in startup news. They've had a lot of really good coverage of SXSW, and have had a lot of good insight into Apple, Pinterest, Facebook, and Google's social strategy lately.

Some days I'll go and not see a single article I'm interested in, but there will be others when there's 3-5 compelling articles that teach me something about the industry that I didn't know before, simply by presenting something from a different angle.

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by WillyF » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 2:15 PM UTC

Rand Fishkin and Dharmesh Shah started Inbound.org - http://inbound.org/ - to be a similar community for online marketing. The links posted are pretty good, but so far the comments aren't adding a ton of value. Hopefully that will improve.

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by mad44 » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

http://www.quora.com/

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by rplnt » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 2:23 PM UTC

samaraga wrote: post #14

Reddit's subreddits are really a nice place to be. Not the funny/wtf/vidoes/politics etc, which will overwhelm you quite fast. There are some really useful subreddit which are of good quality, but because of their smaller sizes, are difficult to know about. I feel these subreddits are worth a try: compsci ( http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci ) explainlikeiamfive ( http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/ ) programming…

Some more that people here could find interesting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/python+ruby+php+perl+javascript

http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev+web_design+browsers+operabrow...

http://www.reddit.com/r/android+androiddev+androidapps

Merged them together by groups and added even some I don't frequent (but related to the group). You can open them separately from right-hand menu to see their topics (and many more interesting links). And one obligatory: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups :)

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by krelian » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 2:23 PM UTC

Are you checking the new page? A cursory look shows that 30 new links were posted in the last 19 minutes. Either you're a very fast reader or looking for a very specific kind of content.

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by levesque » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

andyshora wrote: post #4

http://slashdot.org/

In the same vein, I check http://techmeme.com/ daily.