I once read something somewhere about the architecture of either Bell Labs or IBM or somewhere like that back in its heyday. Apparently it was set up so that pe

I once read something somewhere about the architecture of either Bell Labs or IBM or somewhere like that back in its heyday. Apparently it was set up so that people had their own individual rooms to work in which were situated down long corridors that fed into a large atrium which was where people ate lunch and was also the only way in and out of the building (probably a firefighters nightmare). The author credited this as causing a lot of the innovation and success of the company; people had spaces where they could get deep work done uninterrupted but then the nature of the building contributed to people bumping into each other and being exposed to lots of different ideas from different parts of the company. Hacker News reminds me of this atrium. I kind of feel like subreddits would somehow end up leading to me discovering less interesting content. I feel like I come to Hacker News to discover random stuff from a very broad church that is mainly rooted in STEM but also has things that are often related such as philosophy, psychology, productivity and the like. I think something would be lost if it went down the specialist sub areas route. I do however get the appeal. I myself have searched for “hacker news for finance” when wanting to know more about the topic and found someone else had already asked the same question on HN. Lobste.rs is very similar to hacker news but has gone down the tag route suggested in the other comments mentioned here. https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/about