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Ask HN: Hacker News-like forums for other fields?

42 points by thanatropism 6y ago

thanatropism 6y ago
I find myself learning a lot more about e.g. problems in software engineering "in the large" than I otherwise would because HN is such a nice experience overall. But I'm keen to learn more about e.g. logistics from the same kind of practical atmosphere where links are timely, knowledgeable and relevant, and commenters are intelligent and often experienced. What do e.g. air cargo in passenger planes people congregate? Or warehouse people?
- WMCRUN 6y ago
  Agreed, would love to find or create the internet’s canteen of unusual shipping lore.
- dhruvkar 6y ago
  I work in this space and online blogs are incredibly sparse. Would love to know as well. Here's an article I found interesting about air cargo software (my dad learned on this at Swiss Air in the 70s-80s) https://retool.com/blog/air-travel-software/ https://retool.com/blog/air-travel-software/ Another one about supply chain of bananas. Flexport writes about interesting stuff once in a while: https://www.flexport.com/blog/supply-chain-of-the-banana/ https://www.flexport.com/blog/supply-chain-of-the-banana/
- ShorsHammer 6y ago
  > warehouse people https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/ https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/
gk1 6y ago
For UI/UX and other design topics there's the very active https://www.designernews.co https://www.designernews.co. There's datatau.net for data science, but it's not very active. Has great potential but I think the mod(s) have been very quick to shadowban users for posting anything remotely commercial. So now it's just the same few people posting Medium and TowardsDataScience articles. I hope it can be revitalized or someone else makes a better HN clone.
- catacombs 6y ago
  For a website dedicated to UI/UX, it's quite atrocious.
soared 6y ago
For blackhat seo the site below is interesting to poke through every once in a while. I would highly recommend never using any tactic posted, but interesting to see people trying to game google's algorithms. A good chunk of it is mildly technical but understandable by most. https://www.blackhatworld.com/ https://www.blackhatworld.com/
dhruvkar 6y ago
https://0x00sec.org/ https://0x00sec.org/ for security, malware analysis, reversing etc. It's more of a forum, but the write-ups are pretty helpful
hiidrew 6y ago
Not nearly as active as HN but for design—https://www.designernews.co/ https://www.designernews.co/
thehoomanist 6y ago
Just launched a (very) new generalist instance of Lemmy, a federated and decentralized alternative to Reddit/HN, on https://dixeet.com https://dixeet.com. It's not about a specific field, but you can create your own community and it was just born so you can shape it and contribute as you feel.
set92 6y ago
Data science: https://datatau.net/ https://datatau.net/

42 points by thanatropism 6y ago

I find myself learning a lot more about e.g. problems in software engineering "in the large" than I otherwise would because HN is such a nice experience overall. But I'm keen to learn more about e.g. logistics from the same kind of practical atmosphere where links are timely, knowledgeable and relevant, and commenters are intelligent and often experienced. What do e.g. air cargo in passenger planes people congregate? Or warehouse people?

WMCRUN 6y ago
Agreed, would love to find or create the internet’s canteen of unusual shipping lore.
dhruvkar 6y ago
I work in this space and online blogs are incredibly sparse. Would love to know as well. Here's an article I found interesting about air cargo software (my dad learned on this at Swiss Air in the 70s-80s) https://retool.com/blog/air-travel-software/ https://retool.com/blog/air-travel-software/ Another one about supply chain of bananas. Flexport writes about interesting stuff once in a while: https://www.flexport.com/blog/supply-chain-of-the-banana/ https://www.flexport.com/blog/supply-chain-of-the-banana/
ShorsHammer 6y ago
> warehouse people https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/ https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/

gk1 6y ago

For UI/UX and other design topics there's the very active https://www.designernews.co https://www.designernews.co. There's datatau.net for data science, but it's not very active. Has great potential but I think the mod(s) have been very quick to shadowban users for posting anything remotely commercial. So now it's just the same few people posting Medium and TowardsDataScience articles. I hope it can be revitalized or someone else makes a better HN clone.

catacombs 6y ago
For a website dedicated to UI/UX, it's quite atrocious.

soared 6y ago

For blackhat seo the site below is interesting to poke through every once in a while. I would highly recommend never using any tactic posted, but interesting to see people trying to game google's algorithms. A good chunk of it is mildly technical but understandable by most. https://www.blackhatworld.com/ https://www.blackhatworld.com/

dhruvkar 6y ago

https://0x00sec.org/ https://0x00sec.org/ for security, malware analysis, reversing etc. It's more of a forum, but the write-ups are pretty helpful

hiidrew 6y ago

Not nearly as active as HN but for design—https://www.designernews.co/ https://www.designernews.co/

thehoomanist 6y ago

Just launched a (very) new generalist instance of Lemmy, a federated and decentralized alternative to Reddit/HN, on https://dixeet.com https://dixeet.com. It's not about a specific field, but you can create your own community and it was just born so you can shape it and contribute as you feel.

set92 6y ago

Data science: https://datatau.net/ https://datatau.net/