http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ And many other subreddits besides.
http://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprogramming
^really interesting subreddit imo.
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#112I have found only two such sites so far: 1) reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests 2) Google+ - also quite good, but one needs to do some work, namely to find the right communities, pages and people to follow. But if you are asking about sites with the same "genre" as HN (the same functionality), then no, I haven't found alternative to HN.
> reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests Can you recommend some subreddits beside /r/programming and the subreddits mentioned in the sidebar of /r/programming)? I have not found a generic software engineering subreddit (probably without any web development content), which is quite strange.
/r/functionalprogramming is small but active, which is rare and seems to work well for it.
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#114https://lobste.rs/ - I am not a member, but it looks very similar
I'd like an invite please!
email: tnfog@lavabit.com
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#115pandawhale.com tends to have a medium sized portion of startup/tech news bulked up with a best-of selection from reddit or facebook.
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#116For marketers, http://inbound.org has a similar format.
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#117Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to HN
#118I have been working on a project: http://www.ellsy.io
It is not complete yet, but I could use some feedback. Specifically regarding a commenting system. I am thinking about rolling my own, but that comes with a lot of issues. Any ideas on how you would like it to look?
The site has the ability to curate posts, and then as you follow topics or even other users, you can start to build out a custom stream of news by sources that you like or are interested in. Both curated items and stream items are ordered based on the amount of likes that they receive. There is no down voting.
Each user also has a profile page showing where they typically "like" items and where they post them.
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#119https://lobste.rs/ - I am not a member, but it looks very similar
Completely OT, but I accidentally downvoted you due to an errant attempt to click on your link -- sorry about that.