Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

[DavidHaerer]

I appreciate HN for staying up-to-date with technical news.

For my side hustle I have to ramp-up on other areas like marketing, legal, sales, ...

So I wonder if there are similar high-quality sources like HN for these areas.

[unsupp0rted]

This question comes up every year (I've seen it for the nearly 2 decades of HN), and the answers are never satisfying.

Other industries just don't have an HN equivalent, either for lack of trying or because hackers are good making and using things like HN when others aren't.

[LollipopYakuza]

A psychologist told me a few days ago that they would love having an equivalent for their domain of work.

[chistev]

There's nothing like HN, but the closest is Reddit.

If you're interested in programming then r/programming

If UFC, for example, then

r/ufc

r/mma

r/python

Just whatever it is you're interested in, there's likely a subreddit for it. The more niche it is, the better the quality of the sub.

[thal3s]

Reddit is deteriorating by the day.

The Fediverse (specifically Lemmy and PieFed) have much higher signal to noise ratios and are frequented by the same folks you see here in a lot of cases. Additionally, their APIs are open and free.

[DavidHaerer]

I notice a lot of the suggestions are news-oriented. However, the thing I like about HN are all the non-news gold nuggets about tech. I'd love to find such gold nuggets for other industries as well.

[somenameforme]

NASA Space Flight [1] is the forum for anything and everything space industry related.

[1] - https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/

[doublet00th]

Punchbowl News is a great source for American congressional politics. They have a newsletter for free that goes out every weekday at 6 AM.

[robtherobber]

Unsure why @Nathanf22's comment was downvoted to death. I would also suggest Lobste.rs and Reddit. But then again, RSS seems to work quite well in my case.

[jaen]

Probably because it seems AI-generated, and suggesting dev.to is in line with that - that place is actually an absolute cesspit of slop (SNR 1:100), as far as I have seen.

[DavidHaerer]

Can you recommend some of your favorite RSS feeds for non-technical topics?

[Nathanf22]

Lobste.rs for the more technical deep-dives — smaller community but higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Dev.to and Zenn for longer-form technical writing, though the quality varies a lot.

For architecture and system design specifically, the Software Architecture subreddit (r/softwarearchitecture) has surprisingly good discussions.

HN remains the best for the intersection of tech + business + ideas.