I run out reading material pretty quick on HN and then I'm left wondering where I can find submissions just like on HN. Where do you go after you exhaust HN?
To me, HN is as much as about the community here as it is with the kind of news I get. Sometimes, I get more value from the discussions on HN than a few articles on the front-page put together. We have some amazing people here.
Reddit's subreddits are really a nice place to be. Not the funny/wtf/vidoes/politics etc, which will overwhelm you quite fast. There are some really useful subreddit which are of good quality, but because of their smaller sizes, are difficult to know about.
Merged them together by groups and added even some I don't frequent (but related to the group). You can open them separately from right-hand menu to see their topics (and many more interesting links). And one obligatory: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups :)
Are you checking the new page? A cursory look shows that 30 new links were posted in the last 19 minutes. Either you're a very fast reader or looking for a very specific kind of content.
Rand Fishkin and Dharmesh Shah started Inbound.org - http://inbound.org/ - to be a similar community for online marketing. The links posted are pretty good, but so far the comments aren't adding a ton of value. Hopefully that will improve.
I don't think the comments will get better. It's a SEO site after all and you just need to take a look at sphinn.com to see what happens if you cater to a community of spammers and shadowy salesmen.
I don't think this is a fair comment. I don't consider someone like Patrick McKenzie to be a "spammer" or "shadowy salesman", but I do consider him to be very good at SEO, copywriting and marketing.
HN has a weird doublethink when it comes to SEO/marketing. We are all "hoorah!" startups, but how dare you try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer.
Sure, there are tons of scammers that use SEO...but there are tons of scammers in every field.
I've almost completely stopped reading /. since I was turned on to HN last summer.
1. /. has too much Popular Science-ish golly-gee-whizz hoax-level never-gonna-see-the-light-of-day crap that seem to only be vehicles for sucker investments.
2. /. users are more from the video game playing IT nerd in his mom's basement crowd that has very few life experiences outside of Azeroth. The comments sections are almost always a poorly modded, troll filled mess. Ugh, and the politics threads are particularly bad.
I've acquired http://designbump.com which is a social bookmarking website around (web) design a few weeks ago and I'm now working on reducing/separate the "1,000,000 awesome templates" kind of posts and increase the "Pure CSS Clickable Events Without :target" and "UX Reviews: Which one? How long?" kind.
In parallel working on improving the nearly non-existant comments
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Edit: there's currently a bug for anonymous users in the pagination of 'All popular' (frontpage): no matter what page number you click on you keep getting the cached page for page number 1...
You might find my Hacker Newsletter project (http://hackernewsletter.com) useful if you're not on HN all the time. It comes out every Friday. In addition to that, I'm working on another newsletter that will provide even more reading on a daily basis. Details on that will be in next week's issue. :)
Yeah, I was being more general and answering the "find submissions just like on HN" question (you can't get any closer to that than with other links on HN that you missed). A lot of the feedback I get from subscribers is how they enjoy the newsletter b/c even though they're on HN, they miss a lot of the articles I link to.
When you find a post you like on HN, add it to your RSS reader. I find my reader feed to be generally more interesting and relevant than the HN frontpage, but I keep coming back to HN for new sources.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here, but I don't see how you can run out of reading material on HN. I use Jeff Miller's newsyc50 feed (which contains all submissions with more than 50 points), and I have a hard time keeping up...
I personally are more interested in the comments, and I bet you cannot exhaust those very quickly. In some cases the comments are so long and tree-y you forget what the original link was about.
I am constantly logged on to Quora so haven't seen the login form for ages, but I don't remember it was Facebook login only. I have a regular old school login there. I certainly don't link or join anything that forces me to link my Facebook account to it.
You can sign up with the link I don't have either facebook or twitter. Just full in name, email & password. all done :p you don't have to use any 3rd party services. Just signed up ... pretty good stuff. If you want some very focussed news about just about anything it's a great place to go.
readwriteweb.com is useful if you're interested in startup news. They've had a lot of really good coverage of SXSW, and have had a lot of good insight into Apple, Pinterest, Facebook, and Google's social strategy lately.
Some days I'll go and not see a single article I'm interested in, but there will be others when there's 3-5 compelling articles that teach me something about the industry that I didn't know before, simply by presenting something from a different angle.
My editor of choice to get some work done. Stop procrastinating!