Https://lobste.rs/ is an alternative that's more focused on tech news. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Oh also, https://lobste.rs and filter by the `distributed` tag. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

"I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all" Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Reason: Ignored mod warning to stop self-promo for a while. Respectively: https://lobste.rs/domains/rednafi.com https://lobste.rs/~rednafi/stories. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Metafilter still runs on ColdFusion https://metafilter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

How would I use traceroute? I tried "traceroute metafilter.com" which showed these 4 hops:. Source: over 1 year ago

The way it should have been handled is cortex should have just announced the new owner "the new owner is so-and-so, they begin to be in charge Friday the Xth, direct all communications to them now." Perhaps "metafilter.com" should just be retired and they start up a new site with better features (any features, you know, blocking, etc). Things are lost off the internet all the time. I greet everyone "who were you... Source: about 2 years ago

Check out Metafilter. It’s pretty good for that kind of stuff. http://metafilter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

The /r/science subreddit is decent, metafilter.com is sometimes a noteworthy aggregator. I have seen a lot of inconvenient-news sorts of things show up on The Guardian, although I've heard them increasingly criticized along some axes. Of course there's the /r/covid19 subreddit here that has only the most sciencey of science news here. The /r/medicine subreddit is a good place to gauge medical industry impact. ... Source: about 3 years ago