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Ask HN: Which news aggregators can provide an alternative to Hacker News?

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"Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708

"Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175315

I really like skimfeed. It’d be perfect with a more mobile-friendly interface.

  https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://skimfeed.com

heh, I was actually curious enough where the serial killers linked that URL to, and the answer is Workspace blog: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/new-communit...

that's it, no "oh, hey, you seem to have followed an outdated URL" just "blogspot is awesome"

Hat tip to the big G for successfully encoding a trailing space into their blog post title, too

Any, if having some decent moderators and if there is no reason to make any nasty things driven by commercial needs.

To what end?

What do you like about HN?

What do you seek to change / improve?

get rid of karma, its a kiddys game

In what way(s) does karma distort HN's dynamics?

You can easily ignore it, karma doesn't really affect anything.

Even if a source of information is "perfect" (heavy emphasis on quotation marks), it's always good to have other good sources.

I'm not implying HN is perfect. I'm hoping OP will indicate how specifically they find it lacking, which would probably inform suggestions I or others might make.

For me personally, two things:

1) Just switching to the new thing because any forum of communication that's been around long enough and becomes big enough becomes corrupted and infiltrated and ruined and HN seems to be at that tipping point.

2) 50-75% of the stuff on HN now is just political/social propaganda (posts about Musk, Boeing, Taxes, Unions, Homelessness, Trump, etc etc etc) and there's no way to filter it out, I just want to read tech stuff.

https://brutalist.report/

https://www.lesswrong.com/

but with less news, less programming, stronger intellectual discussions, more AGI, more philosophy

https://lobste.rs/ is an alternative that's more focused on tech news.

registering on this site is somewhat complex

I've never understood why HN karma can't be a proxy for the kind of behavior one should expect on lobsters. Or, I guess maybe they're actually looking for the kind of folks who will hoop-jump to get on their site

From their about page, it seems they very much do not want to be like HN:

> Some things that are off-topic here but popular on larger, similar sites: entrepreneurship, management, news about companies that employ a lot of programmers, investing, world events, anthropology, self-help, personal productivity systems, last-resort customer service requests via public shaming

>I've never understood why HN karma can't be a proxy for the kind of behavior one should expect on lobsters.

Because karma doesn't actually indicate what it's meant to. People don't just upvote comments for their intellectual quality and civility, nor do they downvote comments just for their rudeness and banality. All karma really measures is interaction over time, and high karma if anything is a sign that someone has nothing more productive to do than hang out here.

Anyone can get karma on HN by submitting links. Some people farm karma by posting links to words on Wikipedia. The bar to obtaining karma is very low in my opinion.

99.9% of my karma is from comments, hardly any of the links I post get more than 2-5 points. Likely I'm just really boring.

I see you submitted one that affects a number of people and it caught their attention. There are quite a few Googlers here. Most of my submissions get the same 2-5 points, I just do it almost every day as part of a routine and once in a while I find something that affects a large number of people on HN. There came a point where I started ignoring karma using uBlock as it was influencing my interactions.

Maybe daily.dev ?

I started getting ads for it and haven’t given it a try yet but it seems to be a dev news aggregator.

It’s not the same, but the various programming subreddits usually have the same big news than HN.

Programming.dev and the whole Fesiverse \o/

I'm interested in other Hacker News-like sites. I'd actually just like to leave for something better. I'm increasingly tired of the low brow conversations.

lobste.rs may be the closest, but its referral-based registration leaves you with this odd interleave of being connected to the site potentially by a member you don't actually really know well.

I think they try to discourage that, but I've seen it not work out that way in practice.

Regardless, lobste.rs is a bit too much of a clone.

Most submissions to lobste.rs have a single or no comment.

... Slashdot? :P

(I mean, I say that with a tongue in cheek but it's probably actually a legit answer...)

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