Ask HN: What are all the “hacker news” sites for other disciplines?
For example I know that for designers there’s designer news. Is there a place where all the mathematicians hang out and share links?
Or is reddit pretty much the de-facto place for online niche communities?
IET for electrical engineering, mostly British https://www.theiet.org/Forums/forum/index.cfm?
Speakerplans for soundsystem, PA and pro audio gear https://forum.speakerplans.com/forums.html
Blue room for lighting, DMX, effects, pyrotechnics and theatre/event backstage kit http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?act=idx
just checked all of these out. thanks for sharing
There's datatau.com for data science.
I think the tendency is that independent attempts die off.
well, now. this is interesting. I love data science and data viz. thanks!
Does anyone know one for hacking on cars? Everything from stereos to Rpi touschscreens to Speeduinos etc? Just after a place for all sorts of modding car electronics. I've been going it alone for a while now but would be keen to bounce things off like-minded people. I'm on a few big car forums but they're generally based around performance and mechanical modding, with electronics being a tiny subforum or afterthought.
For designers
https://www.designernews.co/
https://www.webdesignernews.com/
thanks for sharing.
I wish designernews was more active, really like the site though.
for webdesignernews, I don’t really think it qualifies since a central entity decides what is news and what is not. It’s more like a news blog. It also doesn’t seem as though users can comment on the links, but I could be wrong about that. I’d put it in the same category as a site like sidebar.io. What makes sites like HN interesting is that the users publish and the users decide what’s newsworthy... for better or worse.
CGTalk is a forum for designers and animators to post their 3D and 2D work and discuss industry news and topics: http://forums.cgsociety.org/
TypeDrawers is a discussion forum for typeface design, lettering, and typography: http://typedrawers.com/
Just Reddit for the most part.
Anyone know one for electrical engineering?
http://www.eevblog.com/forum