Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online?

Posted by alpb on Saturday December 24, 2011 @02:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Just wondering, is it possible to find people actively following HN on any online instant messaging platform like IRC or a web site? Are there any conveniences or common habbits you observed between communication of the users of this community?

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by templaedhel on Saturday December 24, 2011 @02:59PM (#3389541)

The #startups channel in irc.freenode.net is full of HN'ers, and usually active.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by JL2010 on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:45PM (#3389632)

Various stack-exchange sites. I'm more of a hardware type so the Electrical Engineering stack-exchange is the one I frequent most.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by Lost_BiomedE on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:45PM (#3389634)

Google+ . I have over 200 people in my HN circle. Do a search here. There are threads where people put there info to add them.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by rokhayakebe on Saturday December 24, 2011 @04:31PM (#3389733)

On hn. This place is filled with people who love tech business and other interesting things like hiking, music, history and any other topics. It just so happens that hn is where they come to talk tech. The other places they go to hang out maybe totally outside of that. For example hn owns the vast majority of my on line time , then I spent a huge amount of time reading about religions, old scriptures etc and that has little to do w what we talk about here.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by samlev on Saturday December 24, 2011 @02:46PM (#3389514)

I (and a few others, I think) hang out in #cobol on irc.synirc.net (which is Something Awful's "Cavern Of COBOL" channel)

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by jarin on Saturday December 24, 2011 @08:09PM (#3390155)

I like #cobol, even though there seems to be a surprising lack of programmer talk :D

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by Mz on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:26PM (#3389599)

Add HN chat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756145

List of HN contact sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934275

Secret Cabal (actually already mentioned): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252897

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by jamesbritt on Saturday December 24, 2011 @04:47PM (#3389778)

G+. https://plus.google.com/107781042718674753240/posts//p/pub

Or here.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by zalew on Saturday December 24, 2011 @07:41PM (#3390110)

blank g+ page for me

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by jamesbritt on Saturday December 24, 2011 @08:10PM (#3390157)

Freakin' g+ gives me a link to cut-n-paste, and it's broken.

https://plus.google.com/107781042718674753240/posts

I think. :)

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by JonnieCache on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:49PM (#3389922)

#ruby or any other language's channel on freenode is a good bet.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by todd3834 on Saturday December 24, 2011 @06:01PM (#3389956)

I've been spending a lot of time on http://anybeat.com

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by sim0n on Sunday December 25, 2011 @05:01AM (#3390800)

Generally just http://webetalk.com and reddit.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by berlinbrown on Saturday December 24, 2011 @09:14PM (#3390250)

http://www.crazyontap.com

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by zinssmeister on Saturday December 24, 2011 @06:39PM (#3390011)

we have a small group of HN readers showing off and helping each other on their projects over at http://www.virtualrockstars.com

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by pknerd on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @03:31PM (#3425770)

my G+ link:

http://gplus.to/kadnan

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by veyron on Saturday December 24, 2011 @04:54PM (#3389787)

Reddit: reddit.com

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by ahalan on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:07PM (#3389561)

Quora, where else

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by ahalan on Sunday December 25, 2011 @01:54PM (#3391392)

oh, and StackOverflow, Github, Metaoptimize, some Twiter groups, a tiny bit of LinkedIn, and Facebook if I need to talk to my aunty

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by goshakkk on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:12PM (#3389569)

Can you invite me to Quora please?

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by wantrepreneur on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:59PM (#3389949)

Quora is open for registrations,not sure if this was valid only out of the US,but you just have to choose "login with facebook"

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by a_a_r_o_n on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:26PM (#3389600)

My memory is terrible, but I don't remember having to be invited to Quora, and I have an account.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by chromedude on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:24PM (#3389593)

Why do you need an invite? It is open to everybody.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by goshakkk on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:29PM (#3389602)

Hmm, but it shows me I need an invite. Maybe because I'm not from US... http://cl.ly/2g18003S1D3q0v3p1P23

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by auxbuss on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:47PM (#3389637)

Invite sent. Enjoy! And Merry Christmas :)

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by chromedude on Saturday December 24, 2011 @03:34PM (#3389613)

weird - if you want an invite just email me at srmorrisonjit [at] gmail

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Re:Ask HN: Where do HN people hangout online? by nestoras on Saturday December 24, 2011 @05:37PM (#3389892)

People outside the US need an invite for some reason. Can't guess why.

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