<a href="http://reddit.com/r/programming" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/programming</a> Top Stories are almost same
Right now the only replies list reddit and lobste.rs. That's really depressing :/<p>Are there really no other decent online communities out there? I'm increasingly disenfranchised with reddit and lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea). I've been poking around the various *chans to see if I can brave the noise and chaos in the hope that I'll occasionally find a similar calibre of info as what I find on here.
/r/ppc, /r/adops and /r/analytics<p>These three tend to have a pretty high signal-to-noise ratio, particularly when asking very advanced and technical questions.<p>From personal interactions I can vouch for there being many senior to exec level industry folks from a healthy mix of ad tech companies, networks, agencies, brands, etc. on both the buy and sell side.<p>Everyone is pretty friendly, so while asking basic questions might just get you a link to go RTFM (and really the official docs are often the best starting point...) everyone is pretty friendly and helpful.<p>Great for those trying to learn more about digital media and analytics all the way up to people with questions or who want to chat about stuff in the industry like header bidding, attribution, enterprise analytics troubleshooting, etc.<p>And the best part is since we all are living and breathing advertising for a living, we have a pretty low tolerance for blatant sales plugs and content marketing spam like on some other subs.
In my opinion there isn't anything about Reddit that is like HN. It's why I stopped reading Reddit and came here. Too many haters and trolls on Reddit.
There is <a href="https://lobste.rs" rel="nofollow">https://lobste.rs</a> which is great (not a subreddit but it's very similar)
Is there anywhere that covers technology/scientific development well? (Non-software).<p>I'm always looking for those kinds of things (new sensor, scientific methods, medical advances). But have never found a good forum for this.
Literally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work as cashiers at Taco Bell writing diatribes about Ruby vs PHP, etc.
Not a sub, but I'm a big fan of Designer News. I've been a daily visitor for the last 3 years. While it's more design-focused, many Users are UI Designers, Product Designers and people working in tech.<p><a href="https://www.designernews.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.designernews.co/</a>
Maybe a combination of various topics, add/remove to your interests:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+SomebodyMakeThis+browsers+cogsci+compsci+gamedev+longtext+math+programming+shamelessplug+somethingimade+startups/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+Som...</a><p>Basically: Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+SomebodyMakeThis+browsers+cogsci+compsci+gamedev+longtext+math+programming+shamelessplug+somethingimade+startups
I rarely read r/programming any more, its content rules seeming so arbitrary. My favorites are:<p>- r/python<p>- r/reverseengineering<p>- r/netsec<p>- r/shittykickstarters (to read debunkings of why a Kickstarter is scientifically/technically unfeasible)
/g/ and /prog/ can be useful. There's tons of noise and beginner/toy threads, but competent devs can be found.<p>Can't speak for the other chans but I recall a chan with a competent user base dedicated to programming/hacking/rigbuilding a few years back. 1337chan or something? Abused the green on black theme if anyone else remembers.
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/</a> by a long way
<a href="https://barnacl.es/" rel="nofollow">https://barnacl.es/</a> (Barnacles) is a ~strong~ young community of tech-related news with emphasis on bootstrapping and launching products.
<a href="http://reddit.com/r/programming" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/programming</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/[your_favorite_programming_language]" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/[your_favorite_programming_language]</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/futurology" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/futurology</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/math" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/math</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/mathpics" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/mathpics</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/statistics" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/statistics</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/probabilitytheory" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/probabilitytheory</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/electricalengineering" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/electricalengineering</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/ece" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/ece</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/netsec" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/netsec</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/physics" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/physics</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/emdrive" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/emdrive</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/artificial" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/artificial</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/machinelearning" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/machinelearning</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/neuralnetworks" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/neuralnetworks</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/MLQuestions" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/MLQuestions</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/mlpapers" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/mlpapers</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/computervision" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/computervision</a><p>There is really so much out there and everyone has there own personal interests. Just check out <a href="https://www.reddit.com/explore" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/explore</a> which will give you personalized recommendations based on the subreddits you are already subscribed to.
There was a good discussion of this a while back -- one user here made a multi-reddit of the suggested subreddits, in this comment: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255336" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255336</a>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chipdesign/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/chipdesign/</a><p>For all things related to chip design.
For bootstrapped startup talk, I like <a href="http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/" rel="nofollow">http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/</a>
It isn't hard to get an invite if you're even partially competent. Then again, it is invite only to keep out the sort of camp following mouth breathers that are taking over HN.