Ask HN: Favorite Subreddits

What are your favorite subreddits that you have gained some really valuable insights from?

/r/bestof is a hit-and-miss but I discover some new subreddits there.

/r/askhistorians, /r/askscience, /r/whatisthisthing, /r/legaladvice (or rather the one specific to my country), /r/manufacturingporn

For anything tech related I stay on HN

/r/redscarepod

/r/streamentry

/r/slatestarcodex

/r/emacs

Two here require some explanation: Redscarepod is for folks who listen to the Red Scare podcast, though I’d guess 30% of that subreddit listens regularly. It’s my favorite cultural subreddit.

Streamentry is meditation subreddit with focus on attaining enlightenment.

I wrote about my favorite software subs recently [0]. tldr; /r/emudev, /r/programminglanguages, /r/reverseengineering, /r/databasedevelopment, /r/esolangs, /r/unikernel, /r/graphicsprogramming.

There were a few more suggestions in the HN thread as well [1] and on Twitter [2].

[0] https://notes.eatonphil.com/high-quality-subreddits-you-shou...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450583

[2] https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1467536007448965129

All of my favorite ones are banned or removed for one reason or another. For example, one _very_ niche, very entertaining subreddit is gone and it's fanbase scattered to the winds. Died of his death, unfortunately.