Are there similar sites to Hacker News?

I like visiting Quora(http://www.quora.com) and Stack Overflow(http://stackoverflow.com/) once in a while. I also visit LinkedIn's Answers Section.

Slashdot(http://slashdot.org) and Proggit(http://reddit.com/r/programming)

As a little warning /r/programming has quite a few ignorant people on it, even with a valid logical argument you'll still get voted down for not following proggit norms such as ruby being garbage (which I don't believe one bit), etc.

Is Slashdot any good still? I haven't visited it lately but it hasn't seemed relevant for a while now.

I haven't visited Slashdot for a long while either; I recall it being good for throwing in some fun "science" stuff in addition to the tech.

http://www.reddit.com

http://reddit.com/r/programming

http://reddit.com/r/compsci

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups

And other similar subreddits. Definitely not the front page though.

no one will mention digg.com these days...

Mostly because Digg went and made itself irrelevant. It's the equivalent to getting your news from the week-old papers used to line your cat's litterbox.

Sadly true.