2010 HN had more content like r/haskell and r/clojure, can't speak to older than that, or for non-programming subjects<p>2017 HN is still king for advanced/theoretical topics like distrubted web and VC startup theory, i dont know of any other place for this. The wide reach of HN means cutting edge ideas that nobody understands will draw comments from the ten people in the world who do understand.<p>HN is really rough for popular topics where the kitchen sink feels qualified to comment, like bitcoin and javascript. pseudo-identities hurt HN badly here, you don't know if a comment is by the author of the framework, or a 22yo with two years of javascript. Would be so easy to invest some of their billions to improve HN here :(
I go on this collection of subreddits (I think I found it on HN, can't remember).
However, a lot of it seems to be the same content!<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ashish2199/m/cs_student_subs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/user/ashish2199/m/cs_student_subs/</a>