Reddit in general is more consumer oriented and HN is more producer oriented, but /r/programming is the opposite. You won't see any cat pictures there. If you w

Reddit in general is more consumer oriented and HN is more producer oriented, but /r/programming is the opposite. You won't see any cat pictures there. If you want to talk about coding, web development, and the topics surrounding it, you're better off in /r/programming than on HN. Cold hard technical discussion is a rare thing on HN. The HN audience seems to be mostly non technical people.