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Ask HN: like HN, for other disciplines/topics?

16 points by porker 14y ago

I love Hacker News and the discussions it has, but programming isn't my only interest. Google faileth, so can you help? I'm after similar specialised news sources for other subjects. I know of Reddit et al, but the discussions aren't as knowledgeable and have too much noise.

msturm 14y ago
Designer News: https://news.layervault.com/ https://news.layervault.com/
- porker 14y ago
  Fantastic thanks! Though after Layervault vs the Flat-UI incident... :)
- dreamdu5t 14y ago
  Ironic that it's poorly designed. Arbitrary use of color, pixelated graphics, poor contrast, no responsive layout, etc.
  - andypants 14y ago
    Yeah, what is with the very light grey text on a white background? Might as well make it invisible, at least then it won't hurt anybody's eyes. Edit: okay, it looks like the site looks differently depending on which monitor I have it up on, weird. On one monitor, there is much less contrast which is why I had issues with the grey text.
    - brebory 14y ago
      I'm not defending layervault's overuse of the concept, but one of the (many) ways to achieve typographic hierarchy is to map the contrast of an element to the relative importance of that element. Look at it this way: Without even reading it, you know that the gray text is supplemental or auxiliary information, because it has this visual cue. Of course, sacrificing readability to achieve this definitely isn't the best MO.
codeme 14y ago
Javascript: http://www.echojs.com/ http://www.echojs.com/
- jgj 14y ago
  and using the same code base: http://lamernews.com http://lamernews.com (programming) http://echolinux.com http://echolinux.com (linux)
  - andypants 14y ago
    echolinux.com doesn't work for me, I either get a domain placeholder site or I get forwarded to affiliate sites.
- porker 14y ago
  Excellent, thanks!
polskibus 14y ago
reddit on the whole is similar, isn't it ?
- readme 14y ago
  Technologically, yeah. The community? Not a chance. And as far as the code goes, one is way better off creating a couple tables and making their own clone than re-using reddit's code.
markkat 14y ago
Hubski: http://hubski.com http://hubski.com You can follow people, ex: http://hubski.com/hub?id=NotPhil http://hubski.com/hub?id=NotPhil or tags, ex: http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics
jkldotio 14y ago
I haven't added comments to jkl.io yet but they are coming and will have multiple filters to try to keep things sane. Watch this space.
sgdesign 14y ago
I'm working on Telescope, an open-source HN clone: http://telesc.pe http://telesc.pe So anybody can now create their own "HN for X"!
ewheeler 14y ago
http://leapfrog.io http://leapfrog.io -- international development, technology, and human rights news