TechEcho

Designers have Dribbble, Behance, etc. Businessmen have LinkedIn. HN is nice for simple article links but is hardly a robust network. Where are the social networks for programmers/hackers?

There is, it's called github ;). More seriously, we don't feel the need to update our status every day. pushing code is our status, isn't it?

in a way, google+ is a facebook for programmers, designers, geeks and startupers. nobody else gives a damn.

Answer: <a href="http://dialog.gs" rel="nofollow">http://dialog.gs</a> Launching this week :)

Do they need it? There are twitter, reddit, HN, irc, stackexchange, Github, and facebook itself. Why programmers & hackers need special social network if they can interact with many networks?

<a href="http://versioneye.com/" rel="nofollow">http://versioneye.com/</a> is a community around Software Libraries. They will release a news wall with comments and statuses in the next weeks.

Github is a glorified repository. Sorry, but any "social network" that requires code pushes isn't intended for that. :)

StackOverflow and StackExchange. I consider HN a social network for hackers too.

<a href="http://geekli.st" rel="nofollow">http://geekli.st</a>

Forrst is supposed to be that.

how are programmers and hackers different?