Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?

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by asimjalis • 17 years ago

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What other HN-like sites do you read?

tokenadult2• 17 years ago

New Mogul

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• 17 years ago

I'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• 17 years 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• 17 years ago

Innocuous News

nx• 17 years ago

Why the name change? Have I missed something?

dennmart• 17 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575815

Apparently, Google loves the new title already:

http://www.google.com/search?q=innocuous+news

paulgb• 17 years ago

I 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/

LtU is good too, but I don't read it often. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

iamelgringo• 17 years ago

Reddit, 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• 17 years ago

I 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• 17 years ago

I 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• 17 years ago

The 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• 17 years ago

The other sites I read are too elite, I don't want to blow them up by posting them here.

resdirector2• 17 years ago

Very 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• 17 years ago

Based 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.

tokenadult2• 17 years ago

I think HN has much more active curation (moderation) than Reddit has ever had.

rms• 17 years ago

http://www.thedailybeast.com/ and http://www.newsvine.com for mainstream news

dustineichler2• 17 years ago

the daily beast is quality

chris11• 17 years ago

Cognitive fun is good for neuroscience. It's small, but extremely focused. http://cognitivefun.net/talk

docpepin• 17 years ago

dzone.com

dustineichler2• 17 years ago

ltu http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

TweedHeads• 17 years ago

Slashdot 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.

resdirector2• 17 years ago

Metafilter 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• 17 years ago

Google Reader

mindhacker• 17 years ago

Stack Overflow

Proggit

edw519• 17 years ago

None. Once you start posting here, you feel compelled to follow the discussion threads. Doesn't leave much time for anything else.

Evgeny• 17 years ago

Joel on Software forums http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz

chanux• 17 years ago

Well 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• 17 years ago

http://lesswrong.com

hwijaya• 17 years ago

Techmeme. Strange, can't see anyone read it here?

johns• 17 years ago

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