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Ask HN: more sites like HN

180 points| adityar | 14 years ago | reply

I run out reading material pretty quick on HN and then I'm left wondering where I can find submissions just like on HN. Where do you go after you exhaust HN?

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[+] udp|14 years ago|reply
> Where do you go after you exhaust HN?

My editor of choice to get some work done. Stop procrastinating!

[+] sumukh1|14 years ago|reply
The hosts file is your friend

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

[+] karterk|14 years ago|reply
To me, HN is as much as about the community here as it is with the kind of news I get. Sometimes, I get more value from the discussions on HN than a few articles on the front-page put together. We have some amazing people here.

THAT - is very very hard to reproduce.

[+] samaraga|14 years ago|reply
Reddit's subreddits are really a nice place to be. Not the funny/wtf/vidoes/politics etc, which will overwhelm you quite fast. There are some really useful subreddit which are of good quality, but because of their smaller sizes, are difficult to know about.

I feel these subreddits are worth a try: compsci (http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci) explainlikeiamfive (http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/) programming (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming) (There are a links to other subreddits of similar type in the sidebars of these reddits, which can be further explored).

One caveat is that lots of articles/links/posts from those places turn up here at HN as well. So there is factor of duplicates involved.

All any of your interests might have its own subreddit. If it exists and there isn't too much trash, those can be looked at.

[+] rplnt|14 years ago|reply
Some more that people here could find interesting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/python+ruby+php+perl+javascript

http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev+web_design+browsers+operabrow...

http://www.reddit.com/r/android+androiddev+androidapps

Merged them together by groups and added even some I don't frequent (but related to the group). You can open them separately from right-hand menu to see their topics (and many more interesting links). And one obligatory: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups :)

[+] krelian|14 years ago|reply
Are you checking the new page? A cursory look shows that 30 new links were posted in the last 19 minutes. Either you're a very fast reader or looking for a very specific kind of content.
[+] adityar|14 years ago|reply
that's true. I do skip over some links. I am eclectic but i end up hitting the limit anyway.
[+] IvarTJ|14 years ago|reply
If you really have the time to read everything on HN, then maybe have enough time to read a news source that requires more concentration:

http://arxiv.org/

[+] WillyF|14 years ago|reply
Rand Fishkin and Dharmesh Shah started Inbound.org - http://inbound.org/ - to be a similar community for online marketing. The links posted are pretty good, but so far the comments aren't adding a ton of value. Hopefully that will improve.
[+] leon_|14 years ago|reply
I don't think the comments will get better. It's a SEO site after all and you just need to take a look at sphinn.com to see what happens if you cater to a community of spammers and shadowy salesmen.
[+] andyshora|14 years ago|reply
http://slashdot.org/
[+] crusso|14 years ago|reply
I've almost completely stopped reading /. since I was turned on to HN last summer.

1. /. has too much Popular Science-ish golly-gee-whizz hoax-level never-gonna-see-the-light-of-day crap that seem to only be vehicles for sucker investments. 2. /. users are more from the video game playing IT nerd in his mom's basement crowd that has very few life experiences outside of Azeroth. The comments sections are almost always a poorly modded, troll filled mess. Ugh, and the politics threads are particularly bad.

[+] ABS|14 years ago|reply
[shameless_plug]

I've acquired http://designbump.com which is a social bookmarking website around (web) design a few weeks ago and I'm now working on reducing/separate the "1,000,000 awesome templates" kind of posts and increase the "Pure CSS Clickable Events Without :target" and "UX Reviews: Which one? How long?" kind.

In parallel working on improving the nearly non-existant comments

[/shameless_plug]

:-)

Edit: there's currently a bug for anonymous users in the pagination of 'All popular' (frontpage): no matter what page number you click on you keep getting the cached page for page number 1...

[+] duck|14 years ago|reply
You might find my Hacker Newsletter project (http://hackernewsletter.com) useful if you're not on HN all the time. It comes out every Friday. In addition to that, I'm working on another newsletter that will provide even more reading on a daily basis. Details on that will be in next week's issue. :)
[+] andylei|14 years ago|reply
> useful if you're not on HN all the time

i think that's the opposite of this guy's problem

[+] c16|14 years ago|reply
Just subscribed. You should have a 'Tweet this' button after entering your email- I'd tweet it out :)
[+] iamgopal|14 years ago|reply
I like the idea, could save me couple of hours a week. good bye hn.
[+] devgutt|14 years ago|reply
Click in "more" in the bottom of the HN page.
[+] minimax|14 years ago|reply
http://reader.google.com

When you find a post you like on HN, add it to your RSS reader. I find my reader feed to be generally more interesting and relevant than the HN frontpage, but I keep coming back to HN for new sources.

[+] eneveu|14 years ago|reply
I'm going to play devil's advocate here, but I don't see how you can run out of reading material on HN. I use Jeff Miller's newsyc50 feed (which contains all submissions with more than 50 points), and I have a hard time keeping up...

http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc50 --> 265 posts per week (according to Google Reader)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc20 --> 400 posts per week (according to Google Reader)

That said, the question is still interesting. I'd like to find sites similar to HN focusing on other themes.

[+] why-el|14 years ago|reply
I personally are more interested in the comments, and I bet you cannot exhaust those very quickly. In some cases the comments are so long and tree-y you forget what the original link was about.
[+] mad44|14 years ago|reply
http://www.quora.com/
[+] ta12121|14 years ago|reply
So I clicked on this link and I see nothing but a form for registering.

The answer is no.

[+] spobo|14 years ago|reply
You can sign up with the link I don't have either facebook or twitter. Just full in name, email & password. all done :p you don't have to use any 3rd party services. Just signed up ... pretty good stuff. If you want some very focussed news about just about anything it's a great place to go.