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Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
- misotaur 10y ago/r/truereddit Just interesting stories and essays,a lot like HN but slower(and no show my program threads)
- jacques_chester 10y agor/TrueReddit is the audition for HN and vice versa. Folks wanting to eke out karma arbitrage can just copy and paste between them, they track each other with about 12-24 hours lag.
- blahi 10y agotrue reddit is people who are desperate to feel like special little snowflakes, so they are ready to believe every conspiracy, everything and anything at all that will enable them to "enlighten" their friends about the evil lizard people. Everything is bad, the world is going to shit, the apocalypse is just around the corner.
- tnone 10y agoUnfortunately that sub is as politically left as it can get. Downvotes galore if you dare to disagree with the agenda of identity politics. Best part: they upvoted and agreed with NPR that lefties are impervious to fake news and can quickly spot it because of their superior reasoning skills.
- bobdole1234 10y agoEntertainingly, I find that many of the "lefties" I know read widely on all areas of the spectrum, and those of a certain timbre only read their bubble. You'd never know that by the posturing on the part of those gentle persons of the bubble, but you're definitely not one of those, are you?
- FT_intern 10y agoI dislike it because it is almost all politics discussion with many toxic posters. And they upvote snarky one line responses while downvoting anything that is remotely on the right as the other poster wrote. It is basically a slightly more civil /r/politics with news stories only.
- dorianm 10y agoThere is https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs which is great (not a subreddit but it's very similar)
- hga 10y agoSignup by invitation only, and having retired before it started I don't know anyone in it who I would feel comfortable asking for one.
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- d2p 10y agoI can send you (or anyone else) an invite if you'd like one - send the email address you'd like inviting to blog@dantup.com. I don't use it that much so I don't have any real opinion on how useful/good it is.
- hga 10y agoThanks, I appreciate the offer, but 4 people beat you to it by private email, 3 within 30 minutes.... When I've peeked in on e.g. the lisp subforum, it looked to be quite good, although that was a while ago, too frustrating to contemplate engaging without being able to be part of the conversation (which, I again emphasize, is an entirely legitimate method to avoid a variety of problems).
- d2p 10y agoI suspected they might; but figured I'd make the offer as others might also like to try it out (and it seemed they did, I had a bucket of emails and sent invites out!). I've posted a couple of things on there and although there seems to be a lot less traffic than HN/Reddit (at least for the posts that were to my blog) there quality of discussion seemed to be much better :-)
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
- thewhitetulip 10y agoFor Go, it is http://reddit.com/r/golang http://reddit.com/r/golang
- homarp 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036890
- sethammons 10y agoAs a summary for those who are unaware: a (now former) mod of that subreddit, who is a major Go contributor, called for the deletion (or the discussion there of) of the subreddit due to the actions of the Reddit CEO. He did so believing that the subreddit was an official communication channel. Upon learning that it was community started, he changed his opinion. Many are very offended.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoYes, very offended. see my comments here Just to see how friendly /r/golang is, check my experience as a newcomer on google group and on /r/golang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041938
- spacehacker 10y agohttp://reddit.com/r/programming http://reddit.com/r/programming http://reddit.com/r/[your_favorite_programming_language] http://reddit.com/r/[your_favorite_programming_language] http://reddit.com/r/futurology http://reddit.com/r/futurology http://reddit.com/r/math http://reddit.com/r/math http://reddit.com/r/mathpics http://reddit.com/r/mathpics http://reddit.com/r/statistics http://reddit.com/r/statistics http://reddit.com/r/probabilitytheory http://reddit.com/r/probabilitytheory http://reddit.com/r/electricalengineering http://reddit.com/r/electricalengineering http://reddit.com/r/ece http://reddit.com/r/ece http://reddit.com/r/netsec http://reddit.com/r/netsec http://reddit.com/r/physics http://reddit.com/r/physics http://reddit.com/r/emdrive http://reddit.com/r/emdrive http://reddit.com/r/artificial http://reddit.com/r/artificial http://reddit.com/r/machinelearning http://reddit.com/r/machinelearning http://reddit.com/r/neuralnetworks http://reddit.com/r/neuralnetworks http://reddit.com/r/MLQuestions http://reddit.com/r/MLQuestions http://reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning http://reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning http://reddit.com/r/mlpapers http://reddit.com/r/mlpapers http://reddit.com/r/computervision http://reddit.com/r/computervision There is really so much out there and everyone has there own personal interests. Just check out https://www.reddit.com/explore https://www.reddit.com/explore which will give you personalized recommendations based on the subreddits you are already subscribed to.
- kyriakos 10y agoMaybe not entirely tech related but /r/entrepreneur has some good posts (not all of them but there's some gold here and there)
- i336_ 10y agoRight now the only replies list reddit and lobste.rs. That's really depressing :/ Are there really no other decent online communities out there? I'm increasingly disenfranchised with reddit and lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea). I've been poking around the various *chans to see if I can brave the noise and chaos in the hope that I'll occasionally find a similar calibre of info as what I find on here.
- ue_ 10y agoUnfortunately there's not much on the chans either. The ones I used to browse have generally been overtaken, even on tech/programming boards with threads complaining about diversity or they are thinly-veiled alt-right recruitment posts. I haven't been there for a while, but Lainchan isn't all that bad. Quite slow, though.
- crystalPalace 10y agoLainchan is pretty good but also glacially slow. Many threads stay open for years. The level of conversation is reasonably high as long as you stick to specific threads. The /g/ boards of the world are almost universally garbage.
- sotojuan 10y ago> Lainchan is pretty good but also glacially slow. Many threads stay open for years. No kidding. There are still threads from when I first found the site (2014).
- SuperPaintMan 10y ago/g/ and /prog/ can be useful. There's tons of noise and beginner/toy threads, but competent devs can be found. Can't speak for the other chans but I recall a chan with a competent user base dedicated to programming/hacking/rigbuilding a few years back. 1337chan or something? Abused the green on black theme if anyone else remembers.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 10y agohttps://99chan.org/nerd/ https://99chan.org/nerd/
- Inconel 10y agoI wouldn't say these are comparable to HN but r/cableporn and r/welding might be interesting to HN posters.
- blahi 10y ago/r/backpropaganda
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- rainingmonkey 10y agossh einchan@einchan.god.jp password: ein
- tavito 10y agohttp://www.timqian.com/my-headline http://www.timqian.com/my-headline
- vikas0380 10y agohttp://reddit.com/r/programming http://reddit.com/r/programming Top Stories are almost same
- Adutude 10y agoIn my opinion there isn't anything about Reddit that is like HN. It's why I stopped reading Reddit and came here. Too many haters and trolls on Reddit.
- new299 10y agoIs there anywhere that covers technology/scientific development well? (Non-software). I'm always looking for those kinds of things (new sensor, scientific methods, medical advances). But have never found a good forum for this.
- MaxLeiter 10y ago/r/futurology, also /r/science
- hex12648430 10y agoFrom my experience /r/futurology contains way too much clickbait and sensationalist bullshit to be enjoyable.
- stared 10y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ by a long way
- saosebastiao 10y agoMeh, it's alright. I've found it to be completely dominated by people who are only interested in or talk about deep neural nets. That's fine I guess, it's certainly popular. But there are vast areas of applied machine learning that rightly use other techniques (deep learning isn't AGI!) and it's really frustrating to try to ask questions about RF Tree Pruning or SVM kernel functions only to get a bunch of vacuous "you should try deep learning" comments.
- stared 10y agoFor deep learning quality is high (and it rarely misses important stuff). But I share your frustration that it is "deep learning news", see this post of mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4el597/is_rmachinelearning_deep_learning_news/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4el597/is_... (Though, in the last month deep learning is my main focus, so it is OK.)
- wcummings 10y agoUGH REDDIT. You couldn't say forum? It has to be on reddit? IRC is where it's at tbh.
- beilabs 10y agoWhere on IRC? #startups? or language specific ones? Quite a few are ghostowns since slack picked up steam...
- kLeeIsDead 10y agoLooks like somebody doesn't know how to idle.
- beilabs 10y agoonly idle for about 25 years...must be doing it wrong... :D
- katkattac 10y agoWell, which IRC servers/channels then?
- palehose 10y agohttps://barnacl.es/ https://barnacl.es/ is one of my favorites, for bootstrap startup news
- pacomerh 10y agoMaybe a combination of various topics, add/remove to your interests: https://www.reddit.com/r/Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+SomebodyMakeThis+browsers+cogsci+compsci+gamedev+longtext+math+programming+shamelessplug+somethingimade+startups/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+Som... Basically: Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+SomebodyMakeThis+browsers+cogsci+compsci+gamedev+longtext+math+programming+shamelessplug+somethingimade+startups
- formula_ninguna 10y agohow can I get an invitation for lobste.rs?
- danso 10y agoI rarely read r/programming any more, its content rules seeming so arbitrary. My favorites are: - r/python - r/reverseengineering - r/netsec - r/shittykickstarters (to read debunkings of why a Kickstarter is scientifically/technically unfeasible)
- samsolomon 10y agoNot a sub, but I'm a big fan of Designer News. I've been a daily visitor for the last 3 years. While it's more design-focused, many Users are UI Designers, Product Designers and people working in tech. https://www.designernews.co/ https://www.designernews.co/
- aantix 10y agoThe classic, slashdot.org
- rainingmonkey 10y agoAnd its offshoot, soylentnews.org
- derekp7 10y agoThere was a good discussion of this a while back -- one user here made a multi-reddit of the suggested subreddits, in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255336
- emadkhan 10y agohttps://hashnode.com/ https://hashnode.com/
- tedmiston 10y agoDoes anyone participate on MetaFilter ($)?
- sfrailsdev 10y agoYep. Not under this name though.
- charlieirish 10y agohttps://barnacl.es/ https://barnacl.es/ (Barnacles) is a ~strong~ young community of tech-related news with emphasis on bootstrapping and launching products.
- superflyguy 10y agoI think the request was for subreddits though.
- alexdumitru 10y agoIt doesn't look that strong to me. There aren't any comments and I guess there aren't more than a few active users.
- ebbv 10y agoLiterally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work as cashiers at Taco Bell writing diatribes about Ruby vs PHP, etc.
- bb6xt 10y agoQuite contrary to what you've written I find the Haskell subredit very useful. The comments are usually well thought out and relevant. I daresay the people on the Haskell subredit are the smartest and most helpful of any subredit I've been on.
- kLeeIsDead 10y agoUnfortunately the same thing could be said about this site as of late. There are still some knowledgeable people here, but it appears eternal September has hit.
- wyldfire 10y agoWhat are the qualifications for having an opinion on a technical topic? Ever since Reddit introduced subreddits, it has become a very dynamic place. Many moderators cultivate behavior similar to how it's done here on HN. Lots of subreddits are gems of community and threads like this are a great way to index those valuable parts.
- sotojuan 10y agoIs HN and the Twitter/Medium/blog spehere different? We get devs with 0-3 years experience and no desire to look into past art writing with an authoritative tone all the time.
- kumarski 10y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/chipdesign/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chipdesign/ For all things related to chip design.
- akkartik 10y agohttps://www.reddit.com/user/akkartik/m/programming https://www.reddit.com/user/akkartik/m/programming
- wje 10y ago* Barnacl.es * aesi.news (defunct) * DnE
- lprubin 10y agoFor bootstrapped startup talk, I like http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
- coldshower 10y agoLooks like a great site for solopreneurs. Thanks. I signed up.
- angersock 10y agoIt isn't hard to get an invite if you're even partially competent. Then again, it is invite only to keep out the sort of camp following mouth breathers that are taking over HN.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't come here to diss this community while participating in it. That's like littering in a city park while complaining what a mess it is. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13050127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13050127 and marked it off-topic.
- angersock 10y agoThere's a difference between dissing HN as a whole, and dissing the growing subset of the userbase that has lowered the technical content of the site and decreased the civility and level of discourse. That, or you mods aren't doing your job in keeping this site sufficiently attractive to hackers--if you were, threads like this wouldn't be necessary. The first step to solving a problem dang is admitting you have a problem.
- DrNuke 10y agoKaggle forums anyone for machine learning and data science?
- vaibhavsagar 10y agoI enjoy http://reddit.com/r/haskell http://reddit.com/r/haskell
- tvalentius 10y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoSurprised /r/cscareerquestions hasn't been mentioned. It is my goto spot for discussing cs careers and options.
- shostack 10y ago/r/ppc, /r/adops and /r/analytics These three tend to have a pretty high signal-to-noise ratio, particularly when asking very advanced and technical questions. From personal interactions I can vouch for there being many senior to exec level industry folks from a healthy mix of ad tech companies, networks, agencies, brands, etc. on both the buy and sell side. Everyone is pretty friendly, so while asking basic questions might just get you a link to go RTFM (and really the official docs are often the best starting point...) everyone is pretty friendly and helpful. Great for those trying to learn more about digital media and analytics all the way up to people with questions or who want to chat about stuff in the industry like header bidding, attribution, enterprise analytics troubleshooting, etc. And the best part is since we all are living and breathing advertising for a living, we have a pretty low tolerance for blatant sales plugs and content marketing spam like on some other subs.