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Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
What other HN-like sites do you read?
- hwijaya 18y agoTechmeme. Strange, can't see anyone read it here?
- tokenadult 18y agoNew Mogul http://www.newmogul.com/ http://www.newmogul.com/ for business news. It uses the same ARC-based software as HN, so it's easy to learn the user interface.
- josefresco 18y agoI'm sorry but the top news stories on New Mogul when I checked represent the type of stories that I especially don't want to see on HN. For people who dig that sort of business 'news', it's a good link.
- octane 18y ago> I especially don't want to see on HN I think they were thinking the same thing, which is why they started their own website and called it a new name and it's hosted on different servers and has a new URL. Also, the people running it are different. And you need separate accounts. Hmm, looks like they even changed the theme and some graphics! Wow, it's almost like they run a separate site that isn't HN and has things that doesn't belong on HN!
- pivo 18y agoInnocuous News
- paulgb 18y agoI assume by HN-like you mean link aggregators, but for content, I like the Mind Your Decisions blog (unfortunately, posts have become infrequent lately): http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/ http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/ LtU is good too, but I don't read it often. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
- iamelgringo 18y agoReddit, actually. I don't read comments, but I do have a pretty beefy set of sub-reddits which are able to find a lot of good reads. My sub-reddits: browsers, business, c_language, C_Programming, cogsci, compsci, computergraphics, computers, ComputerSecurity, economy, energy, erlang, Flash_Programming, functional, functionallang, geek, hacking, haskell, javascript, lectures, linux, lisp, math, operabrowser, plt, programming, ProgrammingLanguages, Python, robotics, ruby, scheme, science, software, softwaredevelopment, startups, technology, tedtalks, virtualization, web_design, and for fun WebGames,
- dood 18y agoI read a lot of the same subreddits, and I think you're missing out by not reading the comments. Sure there can be a lot of noise, but with a little practice you can skim to the gems quite easily.
- dboyd 18y agoI found that simply removing 'reddit.com' from 'my reddits' made my front page considerably more valuable. I do read the comments, as they are generally entertaining. If HN is a student lounge outside the computer lab, Reddit is the local pub ... right before closing time. Two environments that I find valuable :).
- ivankirigin 18y agoThe only other good news filter is the set of friends and peers I find interesting. Social voting in the form of posting links and content is awesome. I do this on Twitter, FriendFeed, Tumblr, and Facebook. It's the people that matter here, which is also why I like In.News.
- Devils-Avacado 18y agoThe other sites I read are too elite, I don't want to blow them up by posting them here.
- resdirector 18y agoVery good comment. Most sites have a karma/points system which is not robust against dilution of intelligent comments. E.g., if the Digg-crowd started infiltrating Hacker News, then I doubt the karma system would be able to stop this.
- icefox 18y agoBased upon the fact that hn uses the same system for comments as reddit (only up down voting) and we know how well that worked out there really is no question that once the number of users goes up hn will resemble reddit of today, but the owners wont care because they will have a ton of users and we wont care because we will be somewhere else.
- allenbrunson 18y agoconcerns about hn quality going down have been here from day one. it has not degraded substantially in the over two years i've been here, and i don't think it will for awhile. reddit's goal was to get a lot of users. it's being run as a business. hn's goal is to foster high-quality links and conversation. pg doesn't care how many users the site has, and he's not trying to monetize it. it's not the karma and voting systems that are being used to maintain quality here. it's the editors. they are serious as a heart attack about curbing bad behavior. certainly not something you can say about reddit.
- buckler 18y agoI also agree with this notion. Also notice the absence of spam here... In addition to human editing by the admins, active users on HN here really care about the quality on the site. It's as if sites like Digg, Reddit, & Slashdot have set some sort of a precedent, and people now have a better sense of what to avoid, moderate, etc.
- rms 18y agohttp://www.thedailybeast.com/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/ and http://www.newsvine.com http://www.newsvine.com for mainstream news
- dustineichler 18y agothe daily beast is quality
- chris11 18y agoCognitive fun is good for neuroscience. It's small, but extremely focused. http://cognitivefun.net/talk http://cognitivefun.net/talk
- docpepin 18y agodzone.com
- dustineichler 18y agoltu http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
- TweedHeads 18y agoSlashdot was a really good place to hang out but never got with the times and got left behind. Digg was a good source of news a couple of years ago, then went downhill. Reddit was tech savvy too when it started, now downward spiral. Techcrunch for a brief moment, but Arrington blew it. HN is my only news aggregator.
- resdirector 18y agoMetafilter and AskMetafilter. They have a once-only $5 fee and a one-week waiting period before you can make your first post. This filters out the Digg / Yahoo! Answers crowd. They also have a culture of trusting users not to make "yo-mama" comments...which succeeds in keeping discussions cordial and intelligent.
- mattmcknight 18y agoGoogle Reader
- mindhacker 18y agoStack Overflow Proggit
- edw519 18y agoNone. Once you start posting here, you feel compelled to follow the discussion threads. Doesn't leave much time for anything else.
- Evgeny 18y agoJoel on Software forums http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
- chanux 18y agoWell HN (or is it IN ;) ) seems to be the wall hole for me. I noticed some quality issues lately but since yesterday I felt HN again :) . No it's not the name change, I felt this even before that. Now I don't have to worry about asking another "Erlang week".
- dfranke 18y agohttp://lesswrong.com http://lesswrong.com
- johns 18y ago<shameless_self_promo> managedassembly.com </shameless_self_promo>