5 ms·

Hacker News equivalent for other fields

81 points by oldsklgdfth 9y ago

Is there a hacker-news-esque site for things like art, music or movie or other fields in general? Reddit has a plenty of subs on these topics, but they seem quite noisey.

ttyprintk 9y ago
Blogs, not quite hacker news style: Seeking Alpha for equities xconomy for pharma econacademics for econometrics Fermat's library for mathematical critique
adityar 9y ago
https://barnacl.es/ https://barnacl.es/ for 'News for bootstrappers, not VC hackers'
lainon 9y ago
http://write.narwhal.space/ http://write.narwhal.space/ for writing, you can request an invite on site (>login, >request one publicly) and I'll send you one
- B4TMAN 9y ago
  I would love an invite.
- thebaer 9y ago
  Do you know the admin there? I requested a login but still haven't gotten the confirmation email, and no one's on IRC.
  - lainon 9y ago
    Some emails don't work, I had the same problem therefore the admin (u/etc) added me via console. I contacted him via lobste.rs, if you have an account there msg him.
dbarlett 9y ago
https://www.pprune.org/ https://www.pprune.org/ Professional Pilots Rumour Network https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php FlyerTalk
- Casseres 9y ago
  Not exactly like HN, but there's also StuckMic.com and pointSixtyFive.com for Air Traffic Control discussions. Also gCaptain.com for Maritime News (occassionaly linked to by others here).
koube 9y ago
https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x https://github.com/mattzeunert/Hacker-News-For-X https://github.com/mattzeunert/Hacker-News-For-X
CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Is there a hacker-news-esque site for programmers? I look at the front page, see 90% articles about world events and trends. Is there a filter already available for "articles with code" or is this a "spend an afternoon" project?
- champlinRyan 9y ago
  Try lobster.rs maybe?
  - chrisshroba 9y ago
    I think you made a slight typo, here's the real link :) https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
  - graysonk 9y ago
    I agree with this. Much more tech-focused. With a heavy rust/bsd bias though. My email is in my profile if anyone needs an invite.
greenhouse_gas 9y ago
While reddit has a quite bad reputation, there are quite a few subbreddits which are heavily moderated and quite serious: For example, /r/askhistorians requires that all answers be long form and cite peer-reviewed articles (no wiki, first person comments or pop-historians allowed). Some of the tech subreddits there are much better than StackOverflow - for example, I get better answers on /r/rust than on SO.
- sente 9y ago
  /r/netsec is usually topnotch, by the way.
nandkeypull 9y ago
Don't forget about datatau http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ Basically a Hacker News clone for data science.
- dasboth 9y ago
  The links on the site are usually the "most trending" ones, so it's good for that, but I wish it had as much discussion as HN. For some reason I much prefer HN to reddit for discussion.
ssewell 9y ago
Panda (http://usepanda.com http://usepanda.com) is pretty good for the fields of design, development, and entrepreneurship. It pulls from many different sites, including Hacker News.
sukhadatkeereo 9y ago
KnowledgeTrybe (https://knowledgetrybe.com https://knowledgetrybe.com) The focus is on Psychology, Creativity, History, and Learning. I'm still working on adding comments. Please let me know what you think about this. Would love to hear any feedback.
- adrianmonk 9y ago
  Interesting site, but I'd like to offer a suggestion. In my opinion, a well-designed web site should pass the "someone linked me here and told me it was good but didn't say anything more about what it is" test. When I landed on your site, I felt it wasn't that easy to discover what it's about if I don't already know. Even just adding a short sentence ("read about and discuss psychology, creativity, and more" or something) would go a long way, but having an "about" link I can find and follow might be good too. FWIW, I think Hacker News also fails this test to some extent. It's possible to glean what the site is about from the Guidelines and FAQ links at the bottom of the page, but it doesn't really cater to that at all.
  - sukhadatkeereo 9y ago
    Thank you so much for your feedback. I will definitely work on that. This is the first time I'm sharing it outside of friends and family and it's great to get a fresh perspective. Please feel free to give more suggestions.
mancerayder 9y ago
... or politics. Hacker News moderators become infuriated when there's too much 'political talk' and parent posts get [flagged] since this is considered naughty. Intelligent political discussions off the police radar are 50% of the reason why I check this site everyday. I just don't get that level of discourse at the comment-level anywhere else.
- Fej 9y ago
  Political posts get flagged because they are explicitly against the purpose of the site. From the guidelines, for the benefit of the readers who haven't read them: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Given that political stories get flagged fairly consistently, I would guess that the majority of readers here agree with that guideline.
  - mancerayder 9y ago
    Flagging is a majority vote? Seriously, what's the actual mechanism behind a flagging? I always assumed it was a privilege of one with a high rep point count.
    - deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
- j-walker 9y ago
  Please do not encourage more political discussion here.
  - mancerayder 9y ago
    I simply answered the parent question. A tiny minority of my submissions and comments have been political.
    - yesenadam 9y ago
nbrempel 9y ago
https://www.designernews.co https://www.designernews.co
macawfish 9y ago
fractalforums for fractals
deepnotderp 9y ago
Real world tech forums for computer architecture. Comp arch Google groups for.. well, computer architecture.
alexlrobertson 9y ago
https://frontendfront.com/ https://frontendfront.com/
netgusto 9y ago
hackervid.io, like HN but for videos. https://hackervid.io/ https://hackervid.io/ Source code: https://github.com/netgusto/hackervid.io https://github.com/netgusto/hackervid.io
prahv 9y ago
https://inbound.org/ https://inbound.org/ for marketing.
carlchenet 9y ago
Le Journal du hacker https://www.journalduhacker.net https://www.journalduhacker.net, basically a lobste.rs-like website for french-speaking FOSS community.
uberend23 9y ago
Investing - https://forum.basic-capital.com/ https://forum.basic-capital.com/

81 points by oldsklgdfth 9y ago

Is there a hacker-news-esque site for things like art, music or movie or other fields in general? Reddit has a plenty of subs on these topics, but they seem quite noisey.

ttyprintk 9y ago

Blogs, not quite hacker news style: Seeking Alpha for equities xconomy for pharma econacademics for econometrics Fermat's library for mathematical critique

adityar 9y ago

https://barnacl.es/ https://barnacl.es/ for 'News for bootstrappers, not VC hackers'

lainon 9y ago

http://write.narwhal.space/ http://write.narwhal.space/ for writing, you can request an invite on site (>login, >request one publicly) and I'll send you one

B4TMAN 9y ago
I would love an invite.
thebaer 9y ago
Do you know the admin there? I requested a login but still haven't gotten the confirmation email, and no one's on IRC.
- lainon 9y ago
  Some emails don't work, I had the same problem therefore the admin (u/etc) added me via console. I contacted him via lobste.rs, if you have an account there msg him.

dbarlett 9y ago

https://www.pprune.org/ https://www.pprune.org/ Professional Pilots Rumour Network https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php FlyerTalk

Casseres 9y ago
Not exactly like HN, but there's also StuckMic.com and pointSixtyFive.com for Air Traffic Control discussions. Also gCaptain.com for Maritime News (occassionaly linked to by others here).

koube 9y ago

https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x https://github.com/mattzeunert/Hacker-News-For-X https://github.com/mattzeunert/Hacker-News-For-X

CharlesMerriam2 9y ago

Is there a hacker-news-esque site for programmers? I look at the front page, see 90% articles about world events and trends. Is there a filter already available for "articles with code" or is this a "spend an afternoon" project?

champlinRyan 9y ago
Try lobster.rs maybe?
- chrisshroba 9y ago
  I think you made a slight typo, here's the real link :) https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- graysonk 9y ago
  I agree with this. Much more tech-focused. With a heavy rust/bsd bias though. My email is in my profile if anyone needs an invite.

greenhouse_gas 9y ago

While reddit has a quite bad reputation, there are quite a few subbreddits which are heavily moderated and quite serious: For example, /r/askhistorians requires that all answers be long form and cite peer-reviewed articles (no wiki, first person comments or pop-historians allowed). Some of the tech subreddits there are much better than StackOverflow - for example, I get better answers on /r/rust than on SO.

sente 9y ago
/r/netsec is usually topnotch, by the way.

nandkeypull 9y ago

Don't forget about datatau http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ Basically a Hacker News clone for data science.

dasboth 9y ago
The links on the site are usually the "most trending" ones, so it's good for that, but I wish it had as much discussion as HN. For some reason I much prefer HN to reddit for discussion.

ssewell 9y ago

Panda (http://usepanda.com http://usepanda.com) is pretty good for the fields of design, development, and entrepreneurship. It pulls from many different sites, including Hacker News.

sukhadatkeereo 9y ago

KnowledgeTrybe (https://knowledgetrybe.com https://knowledgetrybe.com) The focus is on Psychology, Creativity, History, and Learning. I'm still working on adding comments. Please let me know what you think about this. Would love to hear any feedback.

adrianmonk 9y ago
Interesting site, but I'd like to offer a suggestion. In my opinion, a well-designed web site should pass the "someone linked me here and told me it was good but didn't say anything more about what it is" test. When I landed on your site, I felt it wasn't that easy to discover what it's about if I don't already know. Even just adding a short sentence ("read about and discuss psychology, creativity, and more" or something) would go a long way, but having an "about" link I can find and follow might be good too. FWIW, I think Hacker News also fails this test to some extent. It's possible to glean what the site is about from the Guidelines and FAQ links at the bottom of the page, but it doesn't really cater to that at all.
- sukhadatkeereo 9y ago
  Thank you so much for your feedback. I will definitely work on that. This is the first time I'm sharing it outside of friends and family and it's great to get a fresh perspective. Please feel free to give more suggestions.

mancerayder 9y ago

... or politics. Hacker News moderators become infuriated when there's too much 'political talk' and parent posts get [flagged] since this is considered naughty. Intelligent political discussions off the police radar are 50% of the reason why I check this site everyday. I just don't get that level of discourse at the comment-level anywhere else.

Fej 9y ago
Political posts get flagged because they are explicitly against the purpose of the site. From the guidelines, for the benefit of the readers who haven't read them: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Given that political stories get flagged fairly consistently, I would guess that the majority of readers here agree with that guideline.
- mancerayder 9y ago
  Flagging is a majority vote? Seriously, what's the actual mechanism behind a flagging? I always assumed it was a privilege of one with a high rep point count.
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
j-walker 9y ago
Please do not encourage more political discussion here.
- mancerayder 9y ago
  I simply answered the parent question. A tiny minority of my submissions and comments have been political.
  - yesenadam 9y ago

nbrempel 9y ago

https://www.designernews.co https://www.designernews.co

macawfish 9y ago

fractalforums for fractals

deepnotderp 9y ago

Real world tech forums for computer architecture. Comp arch Google groups for.. well, computer architecture.

alexlrobertson 9y ago

https://frontendfront.com/ https://frontendfront.com/

netgusto 9y ago

hackervid.io, like HN but for videos. https://hackervid.io/ https://hackervid.io/ Source code: https://github.com/netgusto/hackervid.io https://github.com/netgusto/hackervid.io

prahv 9y ago

https://inbound.org/ https://inbound.org/ for marketing.

carlchenet 9y ago

Le Journal du hacker https://www.journalduhacker.net https://www.journalduhacker.net, basically a lobste.rs-like website for french-speaking FOSS community.

uberend23 9y ago

Investing - https://forum.basic-capital.com/ https://forum.basic-capital.com/