these are all broadly a) tech b) news c) aggregator:

https://bearblog.dev/discover/

https://paperlined.org/

https://lemmy.ml/c/technology

https://engineeringblogs.xyz/

https://jimmyr.com/

https://techurls.com/

https://interestingengineering.com/

https://researchbuzz.me/

https://www.techmeme.com/

https://robohub.org/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

https://www.dailyrotation.com/

https://raddle.me/f/Tech

Hi, ResearchBuzz wrangler here. Thanks for the mention. ResearchBuzz.me is for aggregating news items twice a day along with search articles and resource announcements. If you want thoroughly-tagged resources delivered one at a time, you want ResearchBuzz Firehose ( https://rbfirehose.com/ ). I've written an article on how to set up keyword-based RSS feeds for Firehose to make your monitoring as efficient as possible ( https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/23/introducing-the-researchb... ).

Both ResearchBuzz and RB Firehose are free and free of ads.

Thank you again for your interest.

I've had your site bookmarked forever (10 years maybe?). I admire your perseverence. You took on the work of tracking things like 'Tupelo, MS public library has posted a collection of farm equipment photographs from 1922-1935' and so forth without fail for years.

Glad I could help.

Thank you for posting this list, I really appreciate it.

noone mentionned grandpa https://slashdot.org/ yet..

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

A better HN than HN in some ways. Much better S:N ratio, less groupthink. But, much much quieter, and irksome posting restrictions.

You needed an invite last I checked which explains the quietness part.

You do need an invite. I see this as a feature - not a bug. It massively cuts down on spam. And also makes removing spammers much easier due to the fact that it is not just invite only - it also has a public invite tree. So a spammer cannot just make 100s invites for sock puppets. They are trivially eliminated as well.

I don't have anything against it. It's just one of the reasons for being quieter.

You still do. 2 different people invited me, which is why I thought it worth a look.

But a lot of sites started like that, even Gmail.

Reddit gets a bad rep but many communities are great. Obviously the UX sucks but there are workarounds. Some subs are moderated more strictly than HN, many less so, so there is a mix. There is nothing quite like HN but you could join a mix of subs to get the same spectrum of programming, science, tech and a touch of politics.

I guess the question is: what are the differences with HN ?

If you speak Russian: https://habr.com/

either I am getting old or indeed quality dropped a lot at habr.com

Now it even requires an account to filter by top articles

thank you all very much as I approach my 70th decade (been online since 1986?) I am still learning/trying to keep up with the pack this is all wonderful again thank you

>70th decade

Online since 1324... You must remember even before geocities.

tandy

See also past discussion over the years https://hn.algolia.com/?q=similar+to+hackernews

/g/

/g/ is like the opposite of Hacker News

Unless you're looking for racist NEETs that hate iToddlers and Indians, warship stallman and a certain cabin man while using their computers for nothing but watching anime and running LLMs to make their perfect AI anime waifu.

It’s heartwarming to hear that /g/ has apparently not changed even one iota from when I last looked at it in high school 15 years ago.

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