Ask HN: What other HN-like sites do you read?
What other HN-like sites do you read?
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I do read the comments, as they are generally entertaining. If HN is a student lounge outside the computer lab, Reddit is the local pub ... right before closing time. Two environments that I find valuable :).
for business news. It uses the same ARC-based software as HN, so it's easy to learn the user interface.
I think they were thinking the same thing, which is why they started their own website and called it a new name and it's hosted on different servers and has a new URL.
Also, the people running it are different. And you need separate accounts. Hmm, looks like they even changed the theme and some graphics!
Wow, it's almost like they run a separate site that isn't HN and has things that doesn't belong on HN!
Apparently, Google loves the new title already:
LtU is good too, but I don't read it often. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
Social voting in the form of posting links and content is awesome. I do this on Twitter, FriendFeed, Tumblr, and Facebook.
It's the people that matter here, which is also why I like In.News.
reddit's goal was to get a lot of users. it's being run as a business. hn's goal is to foster high-quality links and conversation. pg doesn't care how many users the site has, and he's not trying to monetize it.
it's not the karma and voting systems that are being used to maintain quality here. it's the editors. they are serious as a heart attack about curbing bad behavior. certainly not something you can say about reddit.
It's as if sites like Digg, Reddit, & Slashdot have set some sort of a precedent, and people now have a better sense of what to avoid, moderate, etc.
Proggit
Digg was a good source of news a couple of years ago, then went downhill.
Reddit was tech savvy too when it started, now downward spiral.
Techcrunch for a brief moment, but Arrington blew it.
HN is my only news aggregator.