The thing I don't like about Reddit and HN is that it is full of dudes. These types of sites are the 21st century equivalent of the man cave.
Downvote me all you want, it doesn't make it any less true.
Study: Reddit used by 6% of adult Internet users
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
/r/programming is good in that most of its links you've already seen on HN - there's less churn, and it's less ephemeral than HN. (Links persist at the top for days rather than less than 24 hours) Not better than HN, but if HN had a "best of the week", it'd closely mirror /r/programming.
HN actually does have a "best recent" page. https://news.ycombinator.com/best
Awesome - I hadn't noticed that. That said, /r/programming does for the most part filter out the sociopolitical topics that come up on HN, focusing more on "hacker" news. :-)
Re: Study: Reddit used by 6% of adult Internet users
#53Can any HN/reddit folks recommend some interesting and useful subreddits? Whenever I stumble across a link to reddit I am not impressed with the level discussions. I have tried a number of different subreddits across a wide range (this is a wide net: anything from Call of Duty to Woodworking to Security) of topics and I usually find inane chatter or comments with nothing more than a link to the latest animated gif of…
/r/AskHistorians is my favorite, personally.