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Ask HN: Favorite subreddit?

• riffic 10y ago
  shameless plug for https://www.reddit.com/r/moldedplywood https://www.reddit.com/r/moldedplywood
• dfederschmidt 10y ago
  /r/memeeconomy People giving and asking for "investment advice" for memes. It's the kind of subculture where I was truly amazed how far the Internet has taken us in terms of social interaction and humour. Funny thing is, the verge even reported on it [1]. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14223264/meme-economy-reddit-stock-market http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14223264/meme-economy-redd...
• tscs37 10y ago
  /r/selfhosted - it contains several selfhosted gems of applications, a very interesting sub. /r/netsec - to feel a bit paranoid /r/homelab - for the homelab needs /r/golang - overall friendly community and lots to learn /r/programming - good sub for all needs /r/polandball - I cannot come up with a good justification why this subreddit is one of my favorites.
• J-dawg 10y ago
  This is possibly controversial, but /r/TheRedPill has helped me a lot recently. https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill
  • nameless912 10y ago
    I'm attempting not to pass judgement. Can you explain why it's helped?
    • J-dawg 10y ago
      It has helped me understand why my marriage failed and made me realise how I need to behave differently when I start dating again. I must admit, a lot of the commenters there have extreme views and some of them come across as misogynists. However, for some reason I persevered and started reading some of the theory. What I read aligned so accurately with my previous experiences and the way I've been treated by women that I couldn't ignore it, and I've been hooked since then. Thank you for at least attempting not to pass judgement!
      • AznHisoka 10y ago
        what are some of those extreme views you disagree with? any you agree with?
        • deleted 10y ago
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        • AznHisoka 10y ago
          Hello? Which ones do you disagree with?
          • J-dawg 10y ago
            Because of the subject matter, there's a lot of anger and bitterness in that subreddit, and people make a lot of sweeping generalisations. There's not much point getting into my specific opinions, everyone has to make up their own mind. All I know is the theory discussed there, and links to "manosphere" blogs have been useful to me. I mentioned it here in case it's useful to other people too.
      • King-Aaron 10y ago
        > for some reason I persevered and started reading some of the theory. What I read aligned so accurately with my previous experiences This is called confirmation bias.
• Zikes 10y ago
  /r/skookum is a pretty great community of engineers & DIYers with a sense of humor. I particularly like their subreddit rule #3: > Users are strongly encouraged to submit posts for technical assistance. /u/datums personally guarantees that all possible resources will be mobilized to provide assistance if necessary.
• aeikenberry 10y ago
  https://reddit.com/r/unixporn https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
• ohazi 10y ago
  /r/corgi
• ljk 10y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/
• Inconel 10y ago
  I mostly use reddit for more non serious discussion so my favorite subreddits are primarily visual. https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Welding/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Welding/ And a user from HN introduced me to https://www.reddit.com/r/conduitporn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conduitporn/
• zxckvm 10y ago
  Haven't gained any insights from these subs, but love browsing them every once in a while. https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dogpictures https://www.reddit.com/r/dogpictures
• khein11 10y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/fitness https://www.reddit.com/r/fitness
• amiga-workbench 10y ago
  http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/ http://www.reddit.com/r/stallmanwasright/ http://www.reddit.com/r/stallmanwasright/ http://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/ http://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/ http://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/ http://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/
• mindcrime 10y ago
  A few of my favorites include: /r/machinelearning /r/artificial /r/semanticweb /r/electronics
  • tmaly 10y ago
    Do you save a lot of links from them?
    • mindcrime 10y ago
      I guess, depending how you define "a lot".
  • Someone1234 10y ago
    Is semantic web just a branch of SEO? I don't really understand the point aside from making your site nicer for e.g. Google/Bing.
    • Leynos 10y ago
      Semantic web is about making the meaning of your content easier for machines to extract. The idea is to have a single HTML document that is readable by people, but is also marked up with microformats or similar rich markup to enable easy acquisition of data by machine (i.e., without being dependent upon the structure of the HTML). The BBC's Programmes web site was a good example of this for some time, but I think this seems to have fallen by the wayside somewhat. Here's an instance though, where the broadcast times are marked up with XSD datetime information in addition to the human readable times: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ljx7/broadcasts http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ljx7/broadcasts
    • mindcrime 10y ago
      I wouldn't say Semantic Web really has much to do with SEO per-se, although Google, Yahoo, etc. do use embedded RDFa, Microdata and Microformats information as part of their indexing and ranking in some fashion. It's really more about providing meaningful, well, semantics, for "stuff" on the web. In the full vision of the semantic web which includes inference and what-not, it allows you to ask more interesting questions, because you have "knowledge" about the relationships between entities. For example, imagine Wikipedia using Semantic Web technologies (which they do to some extent, and also considering dbPedia which is kind of a side project). Now imagine you want to find, say, all the capital cities of countries in Africa. Now you might get lucky and find that somebody has already compiled that list. But if not, you'd have to manually trawl through the list of countries in Africa, and find the capital city for each, and note it down. But if each country is semantically related to its continent, and countries have properties for things like capitalCity, then you could compose one relatively simple SPARQL query and find that exact list in a few seconds. There's actually more to it than that, but that's one example of what the SemWeb is about.
• richmt 10y ago
  /r/CadenMoranDiary
  • tmaly 10y ago
    I am not quite sure what that is about. Can you elaborate?
    • richmt 10y ago
      The useful links on the sidebar explain it best I guess. Just a lot of in jokes between a handful of regular posters.
• miguelrochefort 10y ago
  /r/onebag /r/minimalism /r/ultralight /r/frugal /r/keto /r/zerocarb /r/personalfinancecanada
  • hackerboos 10y ago
    I love PersonalFinanceCanada but Canadian subreddits are very hostile to newbies.
• jetti 10y ago
  /r/TIL /r/programming /r/woodworking
• rayalez 10y ago
  http://www.reddit.com/r/rational/ http://www.reddit.com/r/rational/ - a community discussing rational fiction (sort of like hard SciFi). This is one of the best communities (aside from HN) that I am aware of, a lot of extremely intelligent people, I'm sure you guys will like it.
  • tmaly 10y ago
    would this include works like Sherlock Holmes?
    • jswrenn 10y ago
      To quote rationalist fiction author Eliezer Yudkowsky: > But when you look at what Sherlock Holmes does - you can't go out and do it at home. Sherlock Holmes is not really operating by any sort of reproducible method. He is operating by magically finding the right clues and carrying out magically correct complicated chains of deduction. Maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that reading Sherlock Holmes does not inspire you to go and do likewise. Holmes is a mutant superhero. And even if you did try to imitate him, it would never work in real life. [0] A hallmark of rationalist fiction is that it invites the reader engage with the story by thinking rationally. A tactic employed by Yudkowsky is to pause just before the climax of the story and prompt online readers to use what they know to get the protagonist out of their current bind, or else, Yudkowsky promises, the protagonist will meet a less-than-ideal end. Yudkowsky's stories [1] are a great introduction to the genre. I'm particularly fond of "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", which makes a habit of preying on the reader's sentimentality. [0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/3m/rationalist_fiction/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/3m/rationalist_fiction/ [1] http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/ http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/
• baccredited 10y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
• zumu 10y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ It's a curated list of in depth submissions(posts and replies) from many subreddits.
  • dhfhduk 10y ago
    Not meaning to criticize your taste in subreddits, but I didn't have the reaction I thought it would. I was looking forward to it, but a lot of the posts seemed like links to megatrolling or something. Maybe I picked the wrong ones to take a look at or something, but I found it disturbing more than anything else, sort of like "the best that reddit has to offer, by those who think they are offering it." I have sort of a love-hate relationship with Reddit, though, so I think it's touching some deep buttons for me.
    • zumu 10y ago
      I generally agree with you. To enjoy this subreddit, it's best to think of it more as a collection of in "depth" posts, than it is of "quality" posts. That means it often offers some really bad, but very long and detailed content. It's something I subscribe to and occasionally find gems in. Most importantly, I enjoy that the content is all original discussion as opposed to articles I will probably find elsewhere.
  • tmaly 10y ago
    I bookmarked this one, these would make some very interesting conversation topics.
• networked 10y ago
  I like https://www.reddit.com/r/sixwordstories/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sixwordstories/. A good place to start with it is https://www.reddit.com/r/sixwordstories/top/?sort=top&t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/sixwordstories/top/?sort=top&t=all.
• ilaksh 10y ago
  rad_decentralization permaculture sustainability ethereum nim futurology (quite a bit of spam though) Not all of them are really insightful but still cool foodporn startups conspiracy shittykickstarters proceduralgeneration agi mountaingoats marshallbrain DIY simulate
• AznHisoka 10y ago
  /r/nofap - even if you don't believe in the "science", it's amusing to read the experiences of people attempting this.
• aaronky 10y ago
  r/dataisbeautiful r/EDC
• mhink 10y ago
  Perhaps surprisingly, /r/dndbehindthescreen. They're one of the few subreddits I've found that has a subscriber count in the tens of thousands, consistently high-quality content, and an active community of people that actually contribute. /r/roguelikedev is a fun community, as well- I love the opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas, since everyone's doing a rather similar thing, but with different languages, libraries, and so forth.
• searine 10y ago
  /r/ArtefactPorn /r/ArtisanVideos /r/NYC /r/SpaceX /r/wikipedia /r/DestructiveReaders
• ahoy 10y ago
  /r/askhistorians is always a delightful read
  • Daishiman 10y ago
    The most strictly moderated community I've seen, and thanks to that it has the highest signal-to-noise ratio of any online forum. You could easily make a magazine out of the dozens of incredibly posts each week.
• Mizza 10y ago
  https://reddit.com/r/SyrianCivilWar https://reddit.com/r/SyrianCivilWar Takes a lot of lurking to really be able to _really_ read what's happening, but I honestly think that this sub is quite possibly the best war reporting of all time. The sub has even been publishing its own high-quality journal/magazine, "The Week In Review", ex: http://imgur.com/gallery/SdsG2 http://imgur.com/gallery/SdsG2
  • Gargoyle 10y ago
    I really like the sub. As you hint, it has some strongly-slanted viewpoints, but there's enough variety in the voices that if you put in the time you come out with a good understanding of what's going on and why.
  • sputknick 10y ago
    I'll check it out, but can you give us a high level understanding of what you have learned about the war?
    • s_baby 10y ago
      The whole truth is probably more fluid and multifaceted but these are some of the interesting claims I've seen on there. 1. Al Nusra a branch of Al Qaeda is embedded amongst the moderate rebels and were the main fighting force in Aleppo. 2. Allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been flooding Syria with weapons to anyone who will take them including radical groups. SA sees situation as opportunity to spread Wahhabism to the region. 3. Early on the coalition had been using a funneling strategy that involved bombing locations peripheral to ISIS with the goal of forcing them to move into civilian regime territory.
  • molloy 10y ago
    Their IRC channel is pretty shitposty but when anything newsworthy happens it's the first place the news is aggregated to and discussed, generally even before making it to the subreddit and often while the newsworthy event is still ongoing.
  • jim-jim-jim 10y ago
• mikeleeorg 10y ago
  For me, it's: https://reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews https://reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews The media is too focused on sensationalized news nowadays, which often translates to negative news. It's hard not to be jaded and cynical. This sub helps give me perspective. Also, as someone else already mentioned, /r/askhistorians is a truly delightful and interesting read.