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Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?

Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News? 5 by THENATHE | 2 comments on Hacker News. Very small, curated community posting thoughtful political, general, arts, gaming, etc news (specifically not just tech and “nerd” focused) that has some level of commenting functionality? I LOVE hackernews but I am finding that I really don’t get a lot of non-tech news here (and I understand that is the point) and so I am looking for something to replace Reddit, TikTok, and google news at getting regular stories. Some things I have tried: RSS feeds: don’t really see a practical benefit to this over google news Google News: want to get away from it as I am trying to excommunicate Google from my life as much as possible, and it misses the comment functions Apple News: not happy I have to pay money for half of it, and the other problem I have is I could give a rats ass about their “curated” stories and audio news. Reddit: generally, too mainstream and filled with a bunch of ...

Show HN: Hacker News historic upvote and score data

Show HN: Hacker News historic upvote and score data 7 by clacker-o-matic | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi yall! I've been using hacker news for a while but one of the things I started wanting recently was the ability to have alerts for any stories I post. The thing that pushed me over the edge was Hackclub's shipwrecked https://ift.tt/BcD5Efq (hackathon in the boston bay for anyone that can make 4 projects over the summer and get at least one of them to go viral). One of the options for "going viral" was to get to the front page of hacker news but I was constantly scared that I would miss it getting on there lol so I whipped up a quick slackbot to send alerts to a channel. It was dead simple but it did work. Once I had the bot I realized I could do wayyyy more with the data I was collecting so I decided to add some historical data initially thinking I would generate graphs and then embed them in the message but decided to quickly try using Bun.serve to host a quick ...