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Ask HN: more sites like HN

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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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> Where do you go after you exhaust HN?

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

+1 for back to work

The hosts file is your friend

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

You'll also need the willpower not to go and change it!

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.

Nothing like HN but if im looking for something to read i will check

http://aldaily.com/

http://reddit.com/r/truereddit

http://longform.org/

http://grantland.com/ for sports

Litlet.com is a nicer UI for aldaily.com content.

Does litlet have an official or 3rd party rss feed? A quick search turned up nothing of note.

+1 for Grantland. Simmons should have become an Editor-in-Chief of separate (if not autonomous) sports site years ago.

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.

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 :)

My techy pseudoreddit url; http://www.reddit.com/r/technology+webdev+web_design+netsec+...

http://metareddit.com is also handy

http://machinelearning.reddit.com

http://semanticweb.reddit.com

http://programming.reddit.com

http://compsci.reddit.com

http://android.reddit.com

http://arduino.reddit.com

etc...

http://quora.com

http://www.slashdot.org

http://www.theregister.co.uk

http://livelystocks.com (for live stock news)

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.

that's true. I do skip over some links. I am eclectic but i end up hitting the limit anyway.

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/

http://longform.org

http://longreads.com

http://thebrowser.com

http://givemesomethingtoread.com

http://techmeme.com

http://reddit.com/r/IAmA

http://charlierose.com [video]

For Europe, http://hackful.com/

nice!

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.

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.

I don't think this is a fair comment. I don't consider someone like Patrick McKenzie to be a "spammer" or "shadowy salesman", but I do consider him to be very good at SEO, copywriting and marketing.

HN has a weird doublethink when it comes to SEO/marketing. We are all "hoorah!" startups, but how dare you try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer.

Sure, there are tons of scammers that use SEO...but there are tons of scammers in every field.

> try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer

No problem with that but spamming google with bought links, etc. isn't what exactly makes a site appealing to customers.

http://slashdot.org/

In the same vein, I check http://techmeme.com/ daily.

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.

http://lamernews.com

http://lusernews.com

[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...

Business news: http://forlue.com/

This is cool! Thanks for sharing

It looks quite dead.. last updates more than 30 days ago

Ya, it lost its user base.

Would love to get it going again!

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. :)

> useful if you're not on HN all the time

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

Yeah, I was being more general and answering the "find submissions just like on HN" question (you can't get any closer to that than with other links on HN that you missed). A lot of the feedback I get from subscribers is how they enjoy the newsletter b/c even though they're on HN, they miss a lot of the articles I link to.

I like the idea, could save me couple of hours a week. good bye hn.

Just subscribed. You should have a 'Tweet this' button after entering your email- I'd tweet it out :)

I'm actually working on that right now, but thanks for the reminder!

Click in "more" in the bottom of the HN page.

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.

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.

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.

http://www.quora.com/

So I clicked on this link and I see nothing but a form for registering.

The answer is no.

And only facebook too... It's a great service though.

I am constantly logged on to Quora so haven't seen the login form for ages, but I don't remember it was Facebook login only. I have a regular old school login there. I certainly don't link or join anything that forces me to link my Facebook account to it.

It is not facebook only. I don't use facebook. I don't remember now, but I may have logged in with Twitter authentication.

And you're too busy to verify that so this is just speculation?

You're right, you can definitely login without a facebook/twitter account now.

See "I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account."

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.

For reasonably curated quite wide ranging topics:

http://www.metafilter.com http://thebrowser.com/

For cultural rather than technical news, with an intelligent and vibrant community, Metafilter:

http://www.metafilter.com

Another vote for Metafilter. It seems to be entirely populated with quirky, positive people. It's like the anti-Reddit.

HN is just about perfect for my technical news, since other sites become a rabbit hole of useless tech consumption.

http://lesswrong.com/

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

The Economist: http://www.economist.com - or get a Kindle and load up on books.

I go to my blog editor so I produce stuff that's like the stuff I want to read, instead of just consuming more.

It's not reading material, but if you're looking for a place to discuss new ideas for free and open source projects: http://gun.io/mostwanted

(Okay, it's pretty much brand new..)

The Debian and the PostgreSQL planets are consistently good:

http://planet.debian.org/ http://planet.postgresql.org/

http://hubski.com/lurk

Thanks!

For those unfamiliar, you follow people and/or tags on Hubski, and instead of voting, you share articles with your followers.

To get most like HN: http://hubski.com/tag?id=programming

http://ilovelean.com

http://quippd.com

(Full disclosure, I'm a founder).

Check out the about page: http://quippd.com/about/intro

readwriteweb.com is useful if you're interested in startup news. They've had a lot of really good coverage of SXSW, and have had a lot of good insight into Apple, Pinterest, Facebook, and Google's social strategy lately.

Some days I'll go and not see a single article I'm interested in, but there will be others when there's 3-5 compelling articles that teach me something about the industry that I didn't know before, simply by presenting something from a different angle.

Most HN articles are short, followed by short comments. I find http://longform.org a refreshing supplement.

For India, there's a lovely community called HackerStreet http://www.hackerstreet.in/

http://hackful.eu

Some overlap but getting more quality Europe-centric content.

Disclosure: I am part of the hackful team.

Do you read newly submitted ones? http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

http://www.dzone.com/links/ Even if sometimes, a bit redundant to hn

For Brasil news.seedclip.com will be launched this week, based in the public github project of Hackful. www.seedclip.com

Trejdify if you are interested in economy (my baby)

http://www.trejdify.com/

http://inbound.org/ is HN for marketing and is awesome.

there used to be a finance hackernews clone -- anyone remember what that is? is it still alive?

http://quant.ly/

thank you so much! been looking for that for a second

It's not particularly alive :(

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org

Not like HN-- but one of the best alt news sites out there is cryptogon.com, hands down.

http://lion.co.uk

UK entrepreneurial news and discussion.

http://techupdates.com

http://lesswrong.org

www.metafilter.com, as well as it's various subsites, (ask, etc.)

Www.Waxy.org and it's link miniblog. Www.Boingboing.net Various android sites androidguys androidandme androidpolice etc.

I suppose you like to spend a lot of time reading eh?

I'd say newspapers would be a good source. New York Times. CNN. BBC. Economist. Inc. Entrepreneur.

Hm... maybe I should provide contents more for people like you :D

I'm not sure I have THAT much time :)

SeoMoz community.

no dubt:

techmeme.com/river www.quora.com/

Reddit? Or maybe not.

You mean more time sink?

I meant more noisy.

gmail.com reddit.com/r/starcraft teamliquid.net

If you want more javascript-centric material, you can try

http://www.echojs.com/

Even has the same format as HN. The only thing is, there is only one comment in all of the front page posts.

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