Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?

Lobste.rs for the more technical deep-dives — smaller community but higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Dev.to and Zenn for longer-form technical writing, though the quality varies a lot.

For architecture and system design specifically, the Software Architecture subreddit (r/softwarearchitecture) has surprisingly good discussions.

HN remains the best for the intersection of tech + business + ideas.

This question comes up every year (I've seen it for the nearly 2 decades of HN), and the answers are never satisfying.

Other industries just don't have an HN equivalent, either for lack of trying or because hackers are good making and using things like HN when others aren't.

Unsure why @Nathanf22's comment was downvoted to death. I would also suggest Lobste.rs and Reddit. But then again, RSS seems to work quite well in my case.

NASA Space Flight [1] is the forum for anything and everything space industry related.

[1] - https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/

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Punchbowl News is a great source for American congressional politics. They have a newsletter for free that goes out every weekday at 6 AM.

I notice a lot of the suggestions are news-oriented. However, the thing I like about HN are all the non-news gold nuggets about tech. I'd love to find such gold nuggets for other industries as well.

There's nothing like HN, but the closest is Reddit.

If you're interested in programming then r/programming

If UFC, for example, then

r/ufc

r/mma

r/python

Just whatever it is you're interested in, there's likely a subreddit for it. The more niche it is, the better the quality of the sub.

I'm on HN mainly to keep up with surveillance and privacy news and tech. I have a number of sources I pull from, including:

OSINT blogs and resources like indicator news, Bellingcat 404 Media Individual Blogs like michaflee.com, Zach wittackers "This week in security" Courtwatch.news Privacy related forums like privacyguides.org Academic sources like Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society, etc etc.

I'll spin up an n8n instance at some point to sift through everything I find.

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GitHub trending is one that comes to mind

X.com is my new go to especially after I found enough interesting accounts to follow.

I vibecoded a clone of HN, for philosophical topics, which I'm very fond of. However, I have done a terrible job of marketing it, so that is still on my list: http://forum.philosofriends.com

Right now is basically a repository of philosophy-related links I find interesting, but it would be awesome to find a way to start generating philosophical discussions of the quality I find in HN for tech/AI