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Ask HN: What's the Hacker News for different industries?

323 points by obblekk 9y ago

Curious if there's a high signal source of knowledge for other highly technical industries. If you don't work in tech, what else do you read daily?

kamphey 9y ago
Sellercrowd for media sellers
hendzen 9y ago
Matt Levine's newsletter (Money Stuff) for general financial news.
sorent 9y ago
For bioinformatics I read Genomeweb, but I am interested in other good outlets under the same theme
srik 9y ago
For Calligraphy & Penmanship - http://theflourishforum.com/forum http://theflourishforum.com/forum
- tincholio 9y ago
  I haven't visited in a while, but it used to be that the penmanship forum of the Fountain Pen Network was the go-to place for calligraphy. IT was later sub-divided into more specialized fora, and maybe lost a bit its momentum. The calligraphy subreddit is also quite active.
snissn 9y ago
Lobste.rs
- azeirah 9y ago
  Lobste.rs feels like what Hackernews was when I first got here. I remember reading up on so many weird and cool personal projects on HN, along with obscure math, logic and black-magic programming. Nowadays it feels like HN slowly moved towards the more startuppy and political side of things, while keeping its sharp technical focus. Could also just be that I ignored the startup/political posts in the beginning though, I was heavily against that. I was also way less informed about the industry and math/programming in general, could as well just be that it got a lot harder to impress or surprise me with weird programming or math stuff.
joddystreet 9y ago
http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ - HN for Data Scientists
ferenc_szalai 9y ago
For inbound marketers https://inbound.org https://inbound.org For data science https://www.datasciencecentral.com/ https://www.datasciencecentral.com/ For quantitative investment http://www.moneyscience.com/ http://www.moneyscience.com/
leoreeves 9y ago
designernews.co for designers
psto 9y ago
For growth hacking: https://growthhackers.com https://growthhackers.com
galfarragem 9y ago
On architecture (buildings not IT) there isn't nothing like HN (high signal crowd curated news). At most there are reasonable good news curated by one/few individuals. The task is herculean and will be, by definition, highly biased. Hints: http://afasiaarchzine.com/ http://afasiaarchzine.com/ https://divisare.com/ https://divisare.com/
- nitrogen 9y ago
  A coworker of mine recommends http://skyscraperpage.com http://skyscraperpage.com, but that probably doesn't serve as an HN for architects.
janeroe 9y ago
HN for people who can't stand BSers: https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/
contingencies 9y ago
Long distance / long term live-aboard yacht cruising: http://www.ybw.com/forums/ http://www.ybw.com/forums/ + http://www.cruisersforum.com/ http://www.cruisersforum.com/ + http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/ http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/
franciscop 9y ago
Surprised no one said the obvious: Reddit. Find the right subreddit and you'll see high-ish quality posts on the topic. Javascript, Node.js, etc.
- dvddgld 9y ago
  There's a heap of good info and contacts there. Though the quality is far more varied, and generally goes down significantly once a sub hits a certain size. It seems to me that the less informed the majority of an audience is, the less effective a voting system is at incentivising insightful / productive discussion.
- arka2147483647 9y ago
  The problem with reddit is that there are a lot of "Shits and Giggles" reddits, and this tends to bleed into the "Serious" reddits. For example; someone is browsing r/funny and clicks a link or two and find themselves in r/programming, or whatever, but keeps acting as if they are in r/funny. And so your serious discussion is full of funny comments which someone has to clean up or let the discussion deteriorate.
  - vadimberman 9y ago
    True, but in the good subreddits the downvotes are brutal enough to deter or drop the offending post to the bottom.
    - scheveningen 9y ago
      IMO, the downvotes are a big problem with reddit, unfortunately. If people actually followed reddiquette (downvoting posts that do not add to the discussion) the system would work great. However, a large majority of people will just downvote what they disagree with. There is no way to keep this behavior in check. What happens is that counterpoints that do not align with the majority 'party line' are rarely seen on reddit, and although the hive mind is often agreeable to me personally, I need to see dissenting viewpoints in order to get a nuanced understanding of any complex or opinionated issue. I've pretty much eliminated reddit from my life in favor of HN (this is my first post, actually) and Metafilter and I couldn't be happier.
AETackaberry 9y ago
Most industries don't have a Hacker News. In my opinion, it is coming. Tech-savvy generations will be moving into senior roles, and they will look to communicate online. My main question is are these other industries as passionate as the tech industry? Are they as collaborative? I am from the oil and gas industry, and I can firmly say that currently the answer to those two questions for the oil industry is a hard "No". But that might change.
- dokem 9y ago
  Couldn't one argue that the oil and gas industry is on the way out itself? I know that may come off as a bit naive. My anecdotal experience leads me to believe that the oil and gas industry isn't exactly pushing the envelope technologically. Sure there is a lot of cutting edge science and technology applied on a macro level, but for the industry to truly embrace the future would mean to become something entirely new. I don't see this industry embracing the hyper connectivity, progressive, mind-share of the internet the same way I only see half-hearted engineers entering this field.
Donmario 9y ago
https://feedit.agfunder.com/ https://feedit.agfunder.com/ - for AgTech
- Jowen19o 9y ago
  Any other outlets for AgTech?
  - rdlecler1 9y ago
    https://agfundernews.com/ https://agfundernews.com/
- timux 9y ago
  For those who don't know it (like me): AgTech = Agriculture Technology
DJWassink 9y ago
https://www.echojs.com/ https://www.echojs.com/ - for everything javascript (sure some also get posted on HN but hey, if your in the js scene maybe it's nice)
dotsh 9y ago
Design: https://designernews.co https://designernews.co Go: https://golangnews.com https://golangnews.com
- bewuethr 9y ago
  GN looks like a neat Go-specific HN clone, I'll start keeping an eye on it. Unfortunately, it seems that there are almost no comments: from the 24 topics I see on the front page, only two have comments. Do you feel the submissions are high quality? Or what makes you recommend it?
  - dotsh 9y ago
    I'm looking at GN because I can not keep up with other places like r/golang or twitter and here I can view the most important information once a week without any problem. Also on r/golang there are not too many comments. It seems to me that this is a problem of the entire golang community, nobody wants or have time to comment... this language makes you lazy. :)
dmi3zkm 9y ago
Quantitative trading - https://www.quantnews.com/ https://www.quantnews.com/
SyneRyder 9y ago
For music production, it might be Gearslutz: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ Reading the forum archives has been blowing my mind, seeing forum replies from the sound engineers on my favorite albums. Butch Vig did a thread answering questions about Nirvana's Nevermind [1], and Charlie Clouser was recently answering some questions about the Quake soundtrack & Astro-Creep: 2000 [2]. [1] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-a-with-butch-vig/398321-how-did-you-get-neverminds-drum-sound.html https://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-a-with-butch-vig/398321-ho... [2] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-for-picture/911330-quake-soundtrack-charlie-clouser-any-info.html https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-for-picture/911330-qua...
- justherefortart 9y ago
  https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php Is pretty good for guitar / amp / etc info. (following your Music thread/theme) Oh and: http://www.tdpri.com/ http://www.tdpri.com/
  - rocketpastsix 9y ago
    I spent hours as a teenager on the Gear Page, that place was great.
heinrichf 9y ago
No to share links/stories per se, but many professionals mathematicians are on https://mathoverflow.net/ https://mathoverflow.net/
ajb 9y ago
I'm not either of these,so there might be better ones, but: Pilots: pprune.org Maritime: gcaptain.com
- tyingq 9y ago
  Airliners.net also
DrAwdeOccarim 9y ago
The comments aren't nearly as rich, but for biotech I like https://www.biospace.com/ https://www.biospace.com/ and https://www.fiercebiotech.com/ https://www.fiercebiotech.com/. Though they are typically day(s) behind https://endpts.com/ https://endpts.com/. Twitter is big for biotech, too. People like https://twitter.com/BradLoncar https://twitter.com/BradLoncar, https://twitter.com/JohnCendpts https://twitter.com/JohnCendpts, https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein, https://twitter.com/CarolineYLChen https://twitter.com/CarolineYLChen, https://twitter.com/megtirrell https://twitter.com/megtirrell, https://twitter.com/ldtimmerman https://twitter.com/ldtimmerman, https://twitter.com/matthewherper https://twitter.com/matthewherper covers a lot of it.
- cli 9y ago
  What are the main differences between the three biotech websites? From a quick skim, it seems that Fiercebiotech and endpts are strictly superior to biospace for someone who is not actively looking for jobs in that space.
  - DrAwdeOccarim 9y ago
    Sometimes one will have something the others won't, but really because biotech is "small" big news travels fast and just reading endpoints will get you pretty much everything. I also like https://www.biopharmcatalyst.com/ https://www.biopharmcatalyst.com/ if you're interested in the capital/investing side of biotech.
benrmatthews 9y ago
For nonprofits: https://impct.io/ https://impct.io/ Built on lobste.rs, but needs more users to start submitting and commenting on stories.
subpixel 9y ago
Real Estate investing https://www.biggerpockets.com https://www.biggerpockets.com
walterbell 9y ago
Facebook groups.
- derwiki 9y ago
  That’s what I noticed for smaller film producers (think film school new grads). Especially around jobs and gear, but articles as well.
deleted 9y ago
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dalfonso 9y ago
Sports logos and uniforms: http://boards.sportslogos.net/forum/1-sports-logos/ http://boards.sportslogos.net/forum/1-sports-logos/
cgopalan 9y ago
For animal welfare, cleantech and environmental conservation: http://news.kindandgreenworld.com http://news.kindandgreenworld.com Looking to popularize and build up the community. Built on the excellent lobste.rs
rorykoehein 9y ago
http://www.javascriptlinks.com/ http://www.javascriptlinks.com/
rdlecler1 9y ago
For food and agriculture technology: https://feedit.agfunder.com/ https://feedit.agfunder.com/
frankzander 9y ago
https://www.webdesignernews.com/ https://www.webdesignernews.com/ for webdesign and webdev
mozumder 9y ago
The best option I found is Twitter. Pick any industry, follow it's key leaders and journalists, and follow their followers, and you basically have an RSS feed of that industry's news.
nickthemagicman 9y ago
Crypto-currencies https://cryptonewsagency.com/ https://cryptonewsagency.com/
executesorder66 9y ago
https://write.narwhal.space/ https://write.narwhal.space/ for literature.
nbrempel 9y ago
For entrepreneurship, bootstrapping https://www.indiehackers.com https://www.indiehackers.com
dchuk 9y ago
Looks like I need to add a lot more feeds to https://engineered.at https://engineered.at later today!
deepnotderp 9y ago
For computer architecture, realworldtech might count.
- kingosticks 9y ago
  Is it alive? There's one story from Jan this year but then the one before that was 2016.
  - smueller1234 9y ago
    Oh, you should be looking for the forums! Not as likely as they used to be. But I have yet to find anything similar. Sidenote: if anybody has suggestions for sources of in depth articles on computer architecture of the level of quality that David Kanter used to produce for RWT, I'd be very grateful.
    - deepnotderp 9y ago
      David Schor at wikichip produces some nice stuff
mentos 9y ago
Hmm might be an opportunity here to bring the 'adult' culture of hacker news to a more broader platform. Could probably most naturally be accomplished with 'subs' on HN but might dilute the core brand?
sukhadatkeereo 9y ago
I'm working on Knowledge Trybe (https://knowledgetrybe.com/ https://knowledgetrybe.com/) - the focus is on Science and Learning.
anilshanbhag 9y ago
Seeking Alpha (https://seekingalpha.com https://seekingalpha.com) is a popular place for investing / trading crowds.
- tudorw 9y ago
  shout out to https://ftalphaville.ft.com/ https://ftalphaville.ft.com/ for their alternative take on finance news
ShinyCyril 9y ago
I started producing a list a while ago, although it never really got off the ground. Feel free to submit a PR if you like: https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x.
Aheinemann 9y ago
Data Tau http://www.datatau.com/news http://www.datatau.com/news is a site using the hacker news stack focusing about data science. Quite slow, but some nice articles / links there.
nitrogen 9y ago
http://avsforum.com/ http://avsforum.com/ isn't as high signal as HN, but it does serve as something analogous for home theater (or it used to years ago when I used to visit it; it may have deteriorated). That's where I got the impetus to start my reverse engineering project to write a Linux driver for an HDTV tuner way back when.
wagecuck 9y ago
Lawyers http://www.autoadmit.com http://www.autoadmit.com
valtism 9y ago
One of the largest drivers that took me away from engineering (my bachelor) and into IT was the quality of online discussion and strong communities. I love how easy it is to stay up to date with the current trends and technologies, and the level of support from others who have solved the challenges that you currently face.
thegabez 9y ago
For Donald Trump News: http://www.trump-news.today http://www.trump-news.today
thirdsun 9y ago
- Hydrogen Audio for digital music library management: https://hydrogenaud.io/ https://hydrogenaud.io/ - Gearslutz for music production and audio engineering: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ - Head-Fi for headphones and portable players, amps, DACs, etc.: https://www.head-fi.org/forums/ https://www.head-fi.org/forums/ - Not a forum, yet still a strong community: Discogs for music collectors: https://www.discogs.com https://www.discogs.com
leonagano 9y ago
For coffee lovers: https://coffeeforums.co.uk/content.php https://coffeeforums.co.uk/content.php
- cm2012 9y ago
  /r/coffee is also great.
hondafam 9y ago
Actuarial Outpost is kind of like hacker News for actuaries... Especially those who have not yet finished their professional qualification exams. http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/ http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/
jplspooner 9y ago
Built on an ancient blogging platform but still rife with insights from the leading minds in the Energy and Climate industry: http://www.theenergycollective.com http://www.theenergycollective.com does anyone know of a HackerNews for Building Automation Controls?

323 points by obblekk 9y ago

Curious if there's a high signal source of knowledge for other highly technical industries. If you don't work in tech, what else do you read daily?

kamphey 9y ago

Sellercrowd for media sellers

hendzen 9y ago

Matt Levine's newsletter (Money Stuff) for general financial news.

sorent 9y ago

For bioinformatics I read Genomeweb, but I am interested in other good outlets under the same theme

srik 9y ago

For Calligraphy & Penmanship - http://theflourishforum.com/forum http://theflourishforum.com/forum

tincholio 9y ago
I haven't visited in a while, but it used to be that the penmanship forum of the Fountain Pen Network was the go-to place for calligraphy. IT was later sub-divided into more specialized fora, and maybe lost a bit its momentum. The calligraphy subreddit is also quite active.

snissn 9y ago

Lobste.rs

azeirah 9y ago
Lobste.rs feels like what Hackernews was when I first got here. I remember reading up on so many weird and cool personal projects on HN, along with obscure math, logic and black-magic programming. Nowadays it feels like HN slowly moved towards the more startuppy and political side of things, while keeping its sharp technical focus. Could also just be that I ignored the startup/political posts in the beginning though, I was heavily against that. I was also way less informed about the industry and math/programming in general, could as well just be that it got a lot harder to impress or surprise me with weird programming or math stuff.

joddystreet 9y ago

http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ - HN for Data Scientists

ferenc_szalai 9y ago

For inbound marketers https://inbound.org https://inbound.org For data science https://www.datasciencecentral.com/ https://www.datasciencecentral.com/ For quantitative investment http://www.moneyscience.com/ http://www.moneyscience.com/

leoreeves 9y ago

designernews.co for designers

psto 9y ago

For growth hacking: https://growthhackers.com https://growthhackers.com

galfarragem 9y ago

On architecture (buildings not IT) there isn't nothing like HN (high signal crowd curated news). At most there are reasonable good news curated by one/few individuals. The task is herculean and will be, by definition, highly biased. Hints: http://afasiaarchzine.com/ http://afasiaarchzine.com/ https://divisare.com/ https://divisare.com/

nitrogen 9y ago
A coworker of mine recommends http://skyscraperpage.com http://skyscraperpage.com, but that probably doesn't serve as an HN for architects.

janeroe 9y ago

HN for people who can't stand BSers: https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/

contingencies 9y ago

Long distance / long term live-aboard yacht cruising: http://www.ybw.com/forums/ http://www.ybw.com/forums/ + http://www.cruisersforum.com/ http://www.cruisersforum.com/ + http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/ http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/

franciscop 9y ago

Surprised no one said the obvious: Reddit. Find the right subreddit and you'll see high-ish quality posts on the topic. Javascript, Node.js, etc.

dvddgld 9y ago
There's a heap of good info and contacts there. Though the quality is far more varied, and generally goes down significantly once a sub hits a certain size. It seems to me that the less informed the majority of an audience is, the less effective a voting system is at incentivising insightful / productive discussion.
arka2147483647 9y ago
The problem with reddit is that there are a lot of "Shits and Giggles" reddits, and this tends to bleed into the "Serious" reddits. For example; someone is browsing r/funny and clicks a link or two and find themselves in r/programming, or whatever, but keeps acting as if they are in r/funny. And so your serious discussion is full of funny comments which someone has to clean up or let the discussion deteriorate.
- vadimberman 9y ago
  True, but in the good subreddits the downvotes are brutal enough to deter or drop the offending post to the bottom.
  - scheveningen 9y ago
    IMO, the downvotes are a big problem with reddit, unfortunately. If people actually followed reddiquette (downvoting posts that do not add to the discussion) the system would work great. However, a large majority of people will just downvote what they disagree with. There is no way to keep this behavior in check. What happens is that counterpoints that do not align with the majority 'party line' are rarely seen on reddit, and although the hive mind is often agreeable to me personally, I need to see dissenting viewpoints in order to get a nuanced understanding of any complex or opinionated issue. I've pretty much eliminated reddit from my life in favor of HN (this is my first post, actually) and Metafilter and I couldn't be happier.

AETackaberry 9y ago

Most industries don't have a Hacker News. In my opinion, it is coming. Tech-savvy generations will be moving into senior roles, and they will look to communicate online. My main question is are these other industries as passionate as the tech industry? Are they as collaborative? I am from the oil and gas industry, and I can firmly say that currently the answer to those two questions for the oil industry is a hard "No". But that might change.

dokem 9y ago
Couldn't one argue that the oil and gas industry is on the way out itself? I know that may come off as a bit naive. My anecdotal experience leads me to believe that the oil and gas industry isn't exactly pushing the envelope technologically. Sure there is a lot of cutting edge science and technology applied on a macro level, but for the industry to truly embrace the future would mean to become something entirely new. I don't see this industry embracing the hyper connectivity, progressive, mind-share of the internet the same way I only see half-hearted engineers entering this field.

Donmario 9y ago

https://feedit.agfunder.com/ https://feedit.agfunder.com/ - for AgTech

Jowen19o 9y ago
Any other outlets for AgTech?
- rdlecler1 9y ago
  https://agfundernews.com/ https://agfundernews.com/
timux 9y ago
For those who don't know it (like me): AgTech = Agriculture Technology

DJWassink 9y ago

https://www.echojs.com/ https://www.echojs.com/ - for everything javascript (sure some also get posted on HN but hey, if your in the js scene maybe it's nice)

dotsh 9y ago

Design: https://designernews.co https://designernews.co Go: https://golangnews.com https://golangnews.com

bewuethr 9y ago
GN looks like a neat Go-specific HN clone, I'll start keeping an eye on it. Unfortunately, it seems that there are almost no comments: from the 24 topics I see on the front page, only two have comments. Do you feel the submissions are high quality? Or what makes you recommend it?
- dotsh 9y ago
  I'm looking at GN because I can not keep up with other places like r/golang or twitter and here I can view the most important information once a week without any problem. Also on r/golang there are not too many comments. It seems to me that this is a problem of the entire golang community, nobody wants or have time to comment... this language makes you lazy. :)

dmi3zkm 9y ago

Quantitative trading - https://www.quantnews.com/ https://www.quantnews.com/

SyneRyder 9y ago

For music production, it might be Gearslutz: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ Reading the forum archives has been blowing my mind, seeing forum replies from the sound engineers on my favorite albums. Butch Vig did a thread answering questions about Nirvana's Nevermind [1], and Charlie Clouser was recently answering some questions about the Quake soundtrack & Astro-Creep: 2000 [2]. [1] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-a-with-butch-vig/398321-how-did-you-get-neverminds-drum-sound.html https://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-a-with-butch-vig/398321-ho... [2] https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-for-picture/911330-quake-soundtrack-charlie-clouser-any-info.html https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-for-picture/911330-qua...

justherefortart 9y ago
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php Is pretty good for guitar / amp / etc info. (following your Music thread/theme) Oh and: http://www.tdpri.com/ http://www.tdpri.com/
- rocketpastsix 9y ago
  I spent hours as a teenager on the Gear Page, that place was great.

heinrichf 9y ago

No to share links/stories per se, but many professionals mathematicians are on https://mathoverflow.net/ https://mathoverflow.net/

ajb 9y ago

I'm not either of these,so there might be better ones, but: Pilots: pprune.org Maritime: gcaptain.com

tyingq 9y ago
Airliners.net also

DrAwdeOccarim 9y ago

The comments aren't nearly as rich, but for biotech I like https://www.biospace.com/ https://www.biospace.com/ and https://www.fiercebiotech.com/ https://www.fiercebiotech.com/. Though they are typically day(s) behind https://endpts.com/ https://endpts.com/. Twitter is big for biotech, too. People like https://twitter.com/BradLoncar https://twitter.com/BradLoncar, https://twitter.com/JohnCendpts https://twitter.com/JohnCendpts, https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein https://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein, https://twitter.com/CarolineYLChen https://twitter.com/CarolineYLChen, https://twitter.com/megtirrell https://twitter.com/megtirrell, https://twitter.com/ldtimmerman https://twitter.com/ldtimmerman, https://twitter.com/matthewherper https://twitter.com/matthewherper covers a lot of it.

cli 9y ago
What are the main differences between the three biotech websites? From a quick skim, it seems that Fiercebiotech and endpts are strictly superior to biospace for someone who is not actively looking for jobs in that space.
- DrAwdeOccarim 9y ago
  Sometimes one will have something the others won't, but really because biotech is "small" big news travels fast and just reading endpoints will get you pretty much everything. I also like https://www.biopharmcatalyst.com/ https://www.biopharmcatalyst.com/ if you're interested in the capital/investing side of biotech.

benrmatthews 9y ago

For nonprofits: https://impct.io/ https://impct.io/ Built on lobste.rs, but needs more users to start submitting and commenting on stories.

subpixel 9y ago

Real Estate investing https://www.biggerpockets.com https://www.biggerpockets.com

walterbell 9y ago

Facebook groups.

derwiki 9y ago
That’s what I noticed for smaller film producers (think film school new grads). Especially around jobs and gear, but articles as well.

deleted 9y ago

[deleted]

dalfonso 9y ago

Sports logos and uniforms: http://boards.sportslogos.net/forum/1-sports-logos/ http://boards.sportslogos.net/forum/1-sports-logos/

cgopalan 9y ago

For animal welfare, cleantech and environmental conservation: http://news.kindandgreenworld.com http://news.kindandgreenworld.com Looking to popularize and build up the community. Built on the excellent lobste.rs

rorykoehein 9y ago

http://www.javascriptlinks.com/ http://www.javascriptlinks.com/

rdlecler1 9y ago

For food and agriculture technology: https://feedit.agfunder.com/ https://feedit.agfunder.com/

frankzander 9y ago

https://www.webdesignernews.com/ https://www.webdesignernews.com/ for webdesign and webdev

mozumder 9y ago

The best option I found is Twitter. Pick any industry, follow it's key leaders and journalists, and follow their followers, and you basically have an RSS feed of that industry's news.

nickthemagicman 9y ago

Crypto-currencies https://cryptonewsagency.com/ https://cryptonewsagency.com/

executesorder66 9y ago

https://write.narwhal.space/ https://write.narwhal.space/ for literature.

nbrempel 9y ago

For entrepreneurship, bootstrapping https://www.indiehackers.com https://www.indiehackers.com

dchuk 9y ago

Looks like I need to add a lot more feeds to https://engineered.at https://engineered.at later today!

deepnotderp 9y ago

For computer architecture, realworldtech might count.

kingosticks 9y ago
Is it alive? There's one story from Jan this year but then the one before that was 2016.
- smueller1234 9y ago
  Oh, you should be looking for the forums! Not as likely as they used to be. But I have yet to find anything similar. Sidenote: if anybody has suggestions for sources of in depth articles on computer architecture of the level of quality that David Kanter used to produce for RWT, I'd be very grateful.
  - deepnotderp 9y ago
    David Schor at wikichip produces some nice stuff

mentos 9y ago

Hmm might be an opportunity here to bring the 'adult' culture of hacker news to a more broader platform. Could probably most naturally be accomplished with 'subs' on HN but might dilute the core brand?

sukhadatkeereo 9y ago

I'm working on Knowledge Trybe (https://knowledgetrybe.com/ https://knowledgetrybe.com/) - the focus is on Science and Learning.

anilshanbhag 9y ago

Seeking Alpha (https://seekingalpha.com https://seekingalpha.com) is a popular place for investing / trading crowds.

tudorw 9y ago
shout out to https://ftalphaville.ft.com/ https://ftalphaville.ft.com/ for their alternative take on finance news

ShinyCyril 9y ago

I started producing a list a while ago, although it never really got off the ground. Feel free to submit a PR if you like: https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x.

Aheinemann 9y ago

Data Tau http://www.datatau.com/news http://www.datatau.com/news is a site using the hacker news stack focusing about data science. Quite slow, but some nice articles / links there.

nitrogen 9y ago

http://avsforum.com/ http://avsforum.com/ isn't as high signal as HN, but it does serve as something analogous for home theater (or it used to years ago when I used to visit it; it may have deteriorated). That's where I got the impetus to start my reverse engineering project to write a Linux driver for an HDTV tuner way back when.

wagecuck 9y ago

Lawyers http://www.autoadmit.com http://www.autoadmit.com

valtism 9y ago

One of the largest drivers that took me away from engineering (my bachelor) and into IT was the quality of online discussion and strong communities. I love how easy it is to stay up to date with the current trends and technologies, and the level of support from others who have solved the challenges that you currently face.

thegabez 9y ago

For Donald Trump News: http://www.trump-news.today http://www.trump-news.today

thirdsun 9y ago

- Hydrogen Audio for digital music library management: https://hydrogenaud.io/ https://hydrogenaud.io/ - Gearslutz for music production and audio engineering: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ https://www.gearslutz.com/board/ - Head-Fi for headphones and portable players, amps, DACs, etc.: https://www.head-fi.org/forums/ https://www.head-fi.org/forums/ - Not a forum, yet still a strong community: Discogs for music collectors: https://www.discogs.com https://www.discogs.com

leonagano 9y ago

For coffee lovers: https://coffeeforums.co.uk/content.php https://coffeeforums.co.uk/content.php

cm2012 9y ago
/r/coffee is also great.

hondafam 9y ago

Actuarial Outpost is kind of like hacker News for actuaries... Especially those who have not yet finished their professional qualification exams. http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/ http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/

jplspooner 9y ago

Built on an ancient blogging platform but still rife with insights from the leading minds in the Energy and Climate industry: http://www.theenergycollective.com http://www.theenergycollective.com does anyone know of a HackerNews for Building Automation Controls?