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Comment by throwaway_7678 | Hacker News Reader

Try https://lobste.rs/, not completely without ai news but much better.

I hoped so but there's a well-used "vibecoding" tag there and an admonishing/narrow focus that excludes many other interesting topics. A site needs some of that but they are strict to the point the place is kinda barren.

e.g. I recently submitted a page about new FOSS-oriented hardware and it was rejected as "business news - offtopic." Well, no wonder this place is a ghost town.

I like Lobsters' design and would love to switch over, but it's still invite-only… I guess it works for them but it feels elitist to an anti-social nerd like me.

I'll send you an invite, send me an email to the address in my bio.

It's also kind of hard to know if you already know someone who could give you an invite, since I don't really know the online handles of people I know in meatspace. I've resigned myself to maybe someday getting something posted that gets picked up there and asking for an invite at that time.

The RSS feeds though are pretty neat, it's what I use to fetch articles for archiving so that I can get a curated set of things to read on the go.

email me, i got you :)

How do you get invited?

You can try hanging out on the Libera IRC network in their channel.

I was in there for years but never got invited... all I got was banned for having an opinion that was different than theirs.

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