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Your question is far too vague. For example, how do you personally define "web-focused" or "technical" or "professional"? All of those definitions matter a whol

by jcr 11y ago

Your question is far too vague. For example, how do you personally define "web-focused" or "technical" or "professional"? All of those definitions matter a whole lot. Also, you left out an important aspect, namely if you're looking for a discussion forum or an aggregator? Since I'm blindly guessing at what you mean, the following suggestions might not be what you want, but they're the best I can do. https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ http://slashdot.org/ http://slashdot.org/ http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ http://skimfeed.com/ http://skimfeed.com/ http://hackurls.com/ http://hackurls.com/ http://filll.com/news/ http://filll.com/news/ http://talll.com/news/ http://talll.com/news/ A similar question to yours, with lots of subreddit answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254884 There have been other "Alternatives to HN" type posts over the years, and a quick search will find them If you're in the mood for skimming to find interesting titles, you can even skim the big HN rss feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss Lastly, on HN you can see the submissions from a given HN user, so if you find someone who regularly submits stories that interest you, you can check their submission history. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jcr https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jcr

kluck 11y ago
To clarify: - I am looking for a discussion forum, not an aggregator. - By "web-focused" I meant posts about website development technology used on client and/or server side. Some of this technology is still interesting, like databases, but there is a lot more, e.g. desktop sw technologies, algorithms etc. - By "technical" I meant in-depth technology reviews and discussions. More posts by people that are not about "how to use x" but "how x works inside". - By "professional" I meant posts not about computer science basics (stuff a person knows when going through formal education and/or long years of practical experience). Thank you for your suggestions. I looked through the websites you posted. Do you know what the purpose of http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ is? They do not really tell on their website (or do they?).
- lftl 11y ago
  Datatau is a HN clone focused on data science.
- brudgers 11y ago
  The problem with discussion forums is endless September. I find the database forum because I want to discuss CAP. I post "Let's talk about CAP" thread. The discussion forum has had 1500 CAP threads over the last ten years. It's boring answering the same questions and getting into the same arguments, so either all the experts have moved on, or they find entertainment in inside jokes or political discussions or flaming the freshman. What I don't see mentioned is behavior. That's the hard problem for discussion. Reddit, StackExchange, and the Linux kernal mailing list all have different norms. For me, their behavioral norms don't make them viable alternatives to HN. Lambda-the-Ultimate seems to be generally well behaved when I've encountered it, but it may be more technical and narrower than the enterprisey topics and level of depth you describe.
- jcr 11y ago
  I'd encourage you to check out some of the subreddits in the previous HN discussion link I posted. I think they might be your best bet. Though Lambda The Ultimate (LtU) is officially a blog, it does have comments and it might be interesting for you. From their FAQ: >"Mostly this site deals with issues directly related to programming languages, and programming language research. However, we allow ourselves moderate forays to bordering issues like programmability and language in general." http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ Your desire to avoid "web-based" stuff suffers from the fact that such large swaths of tech today are "web-related" in some way. Your desire to avoid "compsci basics" suffers from the "News-To-Me" problem. Your desire to find "how X works inside" type content seems quite similar to "how X works _in_ _practice_". Given the above, I'd suggest reading current research papers. The trouble with research papers on HN is, papers take more time and effort to read, so they rarely get significant attention or useful discussion. Using Algolia HN Search can uncover some research. Stuff like "[pdf]" files, common sites, organization names, journal names, and even conference names can be useful: [pdf] arxiv.org plos.org usenix.org JMLR OSDI CVPR ICML Since you want stories with _discussions_ use the "comments>?" filter. https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story&query=[pdf]%20comments%3E1 https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page... https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story&query=usenix.org%20comments%3E1 https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page... One of the better efforts I've seen so far on the research paper front is "Papers We Love": http://paperswelove.org/ http://paperswelove.org/ https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love The trouble with "Papers We Love" is you need to live in one of places where the physical meetings happen, and you need to be able to get to said meetings. If you're home bound, then you're pretty much stuffed. Good Luck
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by jcr 11y ago

kluck 11y ago

To clarify: - I am looking for a discussion forum, not an aggregator. - By "web-focused" I meant posts about website development technology used on client and/or server side. Some of this technology is still interesting, like databases, but there is a lot more, e.g. desktop sw technologies, algorithms etc. - By "technical" I meant in-depth technology reviews and discussions. More posts by people that are not about "how to use x" but "how x works inside". - By "professional" I meant posts not about computer science basics (stuff a person knows when going through formal education and/or long years of practical experience). Thank you for your suggestions. I looked through the websites you posted. Do you know what the purpose of http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ is? They do not really tell on their website (or do they?).

lftl 11y ago
Datatau is a HN clone focused on data science.
brudgers 11y ago
The problem with discussion forums is endless September. I find the database forum because I want to discuss CAP. I post "Let's talk about CAP" thread. The discussion forum has had 1500 CAP threads over the last ten years. It's boring answering the same questions and getting into the same arguments, so either all the experts have moved on, or they find entertainment in inside jokes or political discussions or flaming the freshman. What I don't see mentioned is behavior. That's the hard problem for discussion. Reddit, StackExchange, and the Linux kernal mailing list all have different norms. For me, their behavioral norms don't make them viable alternatives to HN. Lambda-the-Ultimate seems to be generally well behaved when I've encountered it, but it may be more technical and narrower than the enterprisey topics and level of depth you describe.
jcr 11y ago
I'd encourage you to check out some of the subreddits in the previous HN discussion link I posted. I think they might be your best bet. Though Lambda The Ultimate (LtU) is officially a blog, it does have comments and it might be interesting for you. From their FAQ: >"Mostly this site deals with issues directly related to programming languages, and programming language research. However, we allow ourselves moderate forays to bordering issues like programmability and language in general." http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ Your desire to avoid "web-based" stuff suffers from the fact that such large swaths of tech today are "web-related" in some way. Your desire to avoid "compsci basics" suffers from the "News-To-Me" problem. Your desire to find "how X works inside" type content seems quite similar to "how X works _in_ _practice_". Given the above, I'd suggest reading current research papers. The trouble with research papers on HN is, papers take more time and effort to read, so they rarely get significant attention or useful discussion. Using Algolia HN Search can uncover some research. Stuff like "[pdf]" files, common sites, organization names, journal names, and even conference names can be useful: [pdf] arxiv.org plos.org usenix.org JMLR OSDI CVPR ICML Since you want stories with _discussions_ use the "comments>?" filter. https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story&query=[pdf]%20comments%3E1 https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page... https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story&query=usenix.org%20comments%3E1 https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page... One of the better efforts I've seen so far on the research paper front is "Papers We Love": http://paperswelove.org/ http://paperswelove.org/ https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love The trouble with "Papers We Love" is you need to live in one of places where the physical meetings happen, and you need to be able to get to said meetings. If you're home bound, then you're pretty much stuffed. Good Luck

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