http://nonhackernews.com/ http://nonhackernews.com/ looks like it expired & got scooped up by a squatter. See also this post on Matt Maroon's blog about what i

http://nonhackernews.com/ http://nonhackernews.com/ looks like it expired & got scooped up by a squatter. See also this post on Matt Maroon's blog about what it was like to run it: http://mattmaroon.com/2008/10/10/nhn/ http://mattmaroon.com/2008/10/10/nhn/ I wonder if it ended because it was too much trouble to moderate well, and he killed it, or if it withered on the vine and died on its own? Either way, it suggests that starting a good social news/discussion site is hard work and not just a matter of setting karma threshold high enough. That said, if you start something, I would definitely enjoy coming to check it out. I also have felt like I wanted a HN-like forum, in my case, for neuroscience. My network of neuroscience friends & colleagues is probably large enough that I could try such a thing, but I haven't summoned the activation energy, in part out of worries that it would take more work than I want to put in to maintain.