Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC

Posted by johng on Monday May 04, 2009 @05:52PM
from the self-post dept.

I know it's been asked before, but I spent 30 minutes using Google to search the YC archives and the keywords are just too abundant and the first 20 pages yielded no results.

I'm looking for sites similar to news.ycombinator.com -- Just quick blurbs about what's new and happening in the nerdosphere.

On any given day about 10 items interest me, so I'm looking for other sources for more data.

Anyone?

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by smikolay on Monday May 04, 2009 @07:42PM (#593311)

Fred Wilson covers off the agregators he uses in the comments here, which might provide some inspiration: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/04/celebrating-aggregation.html

While slightly different, the reddit code is here, and publicly available: http://code.reddit.com/

lastly, if you're looking for environmental news topics, I've slapped together: http://www.environmentalbubble.com/

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by mrduncan on Monday May 04, 2009 @06:49PM (#593243)

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/ Academic Hacker News - although it isn't too active

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by kbrower on Monday May 04, 2009 @06:15PM (#593191)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576677

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by mixmax on Monday May 04, 2009 @06:34PM (#593226)

http://newmogul.com if you're into business, financials and that sort of stuff.

It's run by our very own nickb (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb)

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by RossM on Monday May 04, 2009 @06:14PM (#593188)

As an aside, SearchYC (http://searchyc.com/) and HNSearch (http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.html - Firefox plugin) might help you if Google isn't.

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by johng on Monday May 04, 2009 @06:42PM (#593238)

Thanks for the suggestion guys... it looks like dzone.com from the thread you linked is exactly the type of site I'm looking for.

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by johng on Monday May 04, 2009 @07:10PM (#593271)

That brings up another question.... since newmogul.com and AHN seem to use the same script, is it open source somewhere?

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by mattyb on Monday May 04, 2009 @07:14PM (#593280)

http://arclanguage.org/

A bit more than a script.

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by minalecs on Monday May 04, 2009 @07:18PM (#593285)

slashdot.org -- nerd news

dzone.com -- programming

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Re:Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC by mahmud on Monday May 04, 2009 @11:41PM (#593568)

Slashdot has been useless for at least the last 2 years. They even removed the link to the "developers" section from their category list on the front page, though "idle" and "games" remain.

Never heard of dzone.

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