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What "News for Nerds" Sites Should I Use?

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the certainly-not-here dept.

stderr writes: "I used to visit a certain website quite often, but if Dice Holdings decide to switch the interface to what is currently known as "Beta", I'll have to find another site for my "stuff that matters" fix. So, SoylentNews, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex" /. user?"

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by VLM on Monday February 17 2014, @04:37PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:37PM (#1047)

    We could make jokes all day about the stereotypes found on HN, because, frankly, it is extremely stereotypical, but on a regular basis you'll find something cool.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Monday February 17 2014, @06:26PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:26PM (#1128)

    The problem with HN is the arbitrary and opaque "hell-ban." They make it hard to even know you've been banned - your posts are only visible to your account (and other people who have set an obscure flag). I set the flag because I was just fiddling with knobs one day. I saw a few people who have been submitting stories and writing posts in good faith for months not realizing that they were invisible to everyone else. Going back through their post history to see when they got hell-banned didn't reveal anything particularly egregious either so it isn't like they "should have known."

    I'm sure it isn't intentionally malicious, but the effect is just outright cruel. No notification and if you do figure it out, there is no mechanism for appeal either. Given that HN is the creation of a big famous venture capitalist, I thought it was a pretty good metaphor for the industry's focus on being clever blinding them to how their work can so easily dehumanize people.

  • (Score: 1) by everdred on Monday February 17 2014, @07:25PM

    by everdred (110) on Monday February 17 2014, @07:25PM (#1172) Homepage Journal

    > but on a regular basis you'll find something cool

    I subscribed to HackerNews's front page RSS feed for a little while, but found the post volume to be unbearable. For a little while, it almost seemed like the quality of the 'signal' posts was enough to make the low signal-to-noise ratio worth putting up with...

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