I'd possibly like the same thing, but I don't have much in the way of hope that it will materialize. I see you're a Chem Eng grad student. I'd say for program

I'd possibly like the same thing, but I don't have much in the way of hope that it will materialize. I see you're a Chem Eng grad student. I'd say for programming language design, read the computer science papers from top conferences that interest you, starting with PLDI: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254064 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254064 (click on Table of Contents) If you want to discuss them, send email to the authors, try and find some grad students or professors in your CS department, or find a way to attend some CS conferences. I don't think you'll find deep research-quality conversation in a news aggregator, mostly because the people who are interested in having and also able to have research-quality conversations are for the most part busy doing research, and also because coming up with a reasonable opinion about something complicated that you're not an expert in takes a lot of work. There are specific blogs, mailing lists, and (maybe defunct) newsgroups where you can discuss more focused topics, e.g. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/