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Comment by gue5t | Hacker News Reader

"Hacker News" exhibits this pretty badly. Where do you guys suggest to hear about interesting hacks instead of politics and startups?

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Honestly, I would pay for a site that was only hard-core tech articles. Hacker News' guidelines are decent, but are incredibly open. Citing sentence 3 of the guidelines:

    If you had to reduce [what's on topic] to a sentence,
    the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
    intellectual curiosity.

That's a vast, vast pit of 'anything goes'.

Lobste.rs is pretty much what you're describing here.

There seems to be no discussion though, which is the HN's strong point.

lobste.rs seems like what I'm looking for too. I don't suppose you have an invite handy?

I would also like one if you ever get more information.

Sent. Leave your email if you'd like one!

I, too, would appreciate an invitation. Apropos of this thread, it would be great if lobste.rs could support collapsing subtrees of comments.

I've been waiting for a long while for a lobste.rs account invite thread. Email in profile if I can have one too, please. Thanks.

Invited. Thanks!

Sorry to bother you, but if you have any more left, I'd like to get in as well. Email - me ,,at'' vivek ;;dot:: im

I'm way late to the party, but if you still have an invite left, I would love to get it. Email in profile. Thanks!

If you've got any more going, I'd really appreciate one! joseph at the domain in my profile.

Looks interesting. Please send me an invite too if any more are available. Email in profile. Thanks.

could you send em one too 1wnn6n9@dispostable.com

If there are still invitations left, I would appreciate one. My email is in my profile. Thanks!

Would love a lobste.rs invite if you still have on available (email in profile). Thanks!

If you have any left, I'd appreciate an invite as well. Email in profile.

Yes please! (If I'm not too late...) Email is in my profile

I'd like one, too. Thanks! carlos.fenollosa@gmail.com

I'd like one if possible: luiscarrasco at upsa dot bo

Looks cool, I would love to try it too f1348925@rmqkr.net

If you have any more I would love one, email in profile.

thanks!

Could I have an invite? My email's in my profile.

I'd appreciate an invite as well. Email in profile.

Edit: Thanks!

could you drop me one please 1wnn6n9@dispostable.com

I'd love an invite too. Email is in my profile

Thanks for doing this. My email is in my profile.

I'd like one too, if you've still got them!

Email in profile :)

Thanks

Could I have an invite as well? (email in my profile).

Thanks!

I'd like one! william.bowers@gmail.com

Invited. Thanks!

Email in profile if this is still a thing.

Much appreciated!

Sure, email is jayvanjj at gmail dot com.

Very interesting, I'd like one too.

In profile if I'm not too late :).

I would love one! ryan@hackery.io

Can you send me too? olive35_@hotmail.com

Thanks

I'd be interested to try it out. I think this NSA stuff has sent HN on a path over the brink.

I agree. I think that PG hoped this would be like the Erlang days but didn't realize that this wasn't a fad, but an entire group of people with an obsession.

Me too if possible thanks.

rev.dinosaur @ gmail if you've still got some

lobster (at) makesnosen.se , thank you kindly

jtuson@gmail.com - thanks so much!

Yes, please.

ramcsingh-at-gmail-dot-com

Thanks!

zacharyasalmon@gmail.com

cannonstar @ gmail.com.

brunomtsousa@gmail.com

ep@raxx.info - thanks

mike at scrambledbrains dot net

Cheers!

horsman@gmail.com

ffbellfhtlflf@outlook.com

I've come to accept that HN is the place I go to satisfy my "intellectual curiosity" and more focused lists are where I go to get my learn on. For example, for JavaScript stuff:

* http://reddit.com/r/javascript (yeah it's on reddit, but it's a great resource)

* http://javascriptweekly.com/ ( https://twitter.com/JavaScriptDaily )

* http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/tag/javascript/

* http://dailyjs.com/

* http://javascriptshow.com/ (been a while since the last episode)

* http://javascriptjabber.com/ (I haven't listened to any episodes yet, but I plan on it soon)

Dude... go build it and have people pay you.

There's http://hackaday.com/.

Hack a Day's more of a hardware hacking blog, which is cool, but what about software?

There are sites like codrops, cssdeck, and css-tricks but unfortunately a 'Hack a Day for software' doesn't exist.

They tend to be more subject-specific communities. Lambda the Ultimate (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/) is good if you care about programming languages, for example.

But very very bad if you care about programming and creatings things (that arent PL).

Well, sure. It's a site specifically for discussing programming-language design, theory, and implementation. There are other sites with other focuses.

Of course, this used to be called "Startup News" but then PG picked the more general "Hacker News" instead.

While not everyone reading and posting on HN is a hacker, the website was founded by one of the world's greatest. So, I think that justifies the title.

Still, no matter what you publish, those outside your intended demographic will always read it. If you made a website called "Gangsta News", I'm sure white suburban kids from middle class families would read it.

/r/programming has a lot of the same links that you find on HN of the "hack" variety

And less brogramming...

I'm no experienced software or hardware hacker but I would have to guess that the best way to hear about "interesting hacks" (whatever those are) is to start doing some. Whether it be NERF guns or C, I can only imagine that one would get in tune with the community fastest if you actually have interest in learning the subject rather than just in the novelty of a Neat Trick.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22sho...

Could be a start.

I've read hackaday.com on and off over the past while and it's generally interesting. More of a hardware bent than software, but still interesting.

Google hack-a-day. It's what I read now instead of alt.hackers. Might be too hardware-centric for this crowd, though.

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