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

by THENATHE on 6/8/25, 3:43 AM with 84 comments

• by loveparade on 6/8/25, 5:45 AM

  The funny thing is that I find HN especially useful for non tech news. It's highly biased for tech news, but only the most important normal news make it to the front page, so it's a great filter.

• by ofalkaed on 6/8/25, 3:59 AM

  Oddly enough I had been considering making a similar thread but asking for something akin to HN but with less non-tech news. Perhaps the question that both I and OP are asking is, does anyone know of a site that stays on topic?

  >Thoughts? If this doesn’t exist, would people be interested in it being created, and does anyone think it has a chance of taking off

  There is absolutely a market for it but it will eventually become a tech forum.

  Edit: I apologize for the meta posting, Saturday night, what can I say.

  Edit: Prepended "Edit:" to my apology even though it wasn't an edit, it seems more appropriate as an edit. Once again, I apologize for the meta posting, Saturday night, what can I say.

• by ksec on 6/8/25, 5:08 AM

  It doesn't exist yet. I would argue even HN has its bias. For example for a long time anything MySQL or Java dont get much upvote.

  I actually want something that sort of combine the both. I want something that tells me what everyone is reading. Because I dont even consume mainstream news any more. And something that is not mainstream but interesting.

  I also think the design of HN is a giant filter for 80 to 90% of internet users.

• by runsonrum on 6/8/25, 6:05 AM

  I also use RSS feeds. A couple sites that are useful to me that I picked up from HN submissions recently:

  https://www.phoronix.com/ https://www.neowin.net/ https://kbd.news/ https://betanews.com/

• by nikcub on 6/8/25, 6:43 AM

  /r/anime_titties on reddit. ignore the name, it helps it go incognito as a better current news / politics sub.

• by mmh0000 on 6/8/25, 10:37 AM

  FARK is one of the oldest and best for “breaking” news and good for keeping up to date on world politics.

  https://www.fark.com/

  Anime Titties (not a joke) is great for doom scrolling and realizing how fucked everything is.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/

• by wewewedxfgdf on 6/8/25, 5:39 AM

  lobster.rs is good and tech focused.

  I think it should discard any submissions that are already on Hacker news because it's often same/same. If I think it was reliably different I'd visit it more.

• by yakhinvadim on 6/8/25, 9:31 PM

  There's https://www.newsminimalist.com/ where 30k news articles per day is ranked by significance, maybe it's what you're looking for?

• by udev4096 on 6/8/25, 5:28 AM

  There is lesswrong, slashdot and lobsters which do have good similarity with HN

• by kmetral on 6/8/25, 12:52 PM

  Most likely, this is what Digg's comeback is going to be: https://reboot.digg.com

• by antiraza on 6/8/25, 5:49 AM

  If you are willing to slow down, Tildes.

  Small, laid back, conversation focused, but the coverage is definitely more 'general.'

  I personally find it really refreshing compared to something like reddit (or even here). It's small enough that the comments section don't feel like an artificial jostle for the fastest, most attention getting response -- and the community seems to maintain that culture well via both scale and rate of scaling.

• by msqinfo on 6/8/25, 4:05 PM

  I've built https://www.mosaique.info (RSS supported) for this (mostly global news).

  You won't be able to comment but it will show you what officials, companies and "experts" have said about a particular event. There are a bunch of other features too.

• by kriro on 6/8/25, 7:04 AM

  I have considered building this for my own country a couple of times. My general thought was to have left and right areas with submission/discussion a la HN and try to curate a middle of the road point if view from it. But I see too much headache dealing with the extremes and trolls. It would require more passion than I can muster.

• by ChrisArchitect on 6/8/25, 7:01 AM

  Some other:

  Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708

  Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616919

• by wrs-ai on 6/8/25, 9:46 PM

  The best one I've found is Progscrape: https://progscrape.com/ "All the news that's fit to scrape." A great mix of tech and non-tech news, with plenty of stories that are think-worthy.

• by more_corn on 6/8/25, 4:49 PM

  It’s not the same but I’ve been using particle for genera news. It’s an algorithmic news aggregator, theoretically you can tune it for your preferences. I don’t use the commentary feature and there doesn’t appear to be a community yet.

• by senectus1 on 6/8/25, 5:51 AM

  I've been using "clean news" https://cleannews.fyi/

  and add it to my RSS feed. this gives me news articles that dont have hyperbolic headlines.

• by Rikudou on 6/8/25, 8:46 AM

  The Fediverse, particularly the Reddit-inspired one (Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin). If you want a specific address, try mine: https://lemmings.world

• by awkim on 6/8/25, 6:00 AM

  There's https://www.aldaily.com/, though there's no forum. Great articles more from the liberal arts perspective.

• by aagha on 6/9/25, 9:32 PM

  I mostly get my tech news through SkimFeed: https://skimfeed.com/tech.html

• by Gud on 6/8/25, 9:24 PM

  I have launched a similar concept as Hacker News, an aggregator for general news. It’s a side project. It’s early alpha. But I think it’s important work.

  Link in my profile.

• by raintrees on 6/8/25, 4:12 PM

  An interesting collection: https://thedukereport.substack.com/

• by Jordan-117 on 6/8/25, 6:04 AM

  https://www.metafilter.com

  Long-standing community blog with an eclectic mix of link-heavy text posts. The Q&A subsite, Ask MetaFilter, is also quite good.

• by chistev on 6/8/25, 5:53 AM

  Reddit is it. The dedicated subreddits give you what you want.

• by notorandit on 6/8/25, 8:30 AM

  No way! HN is one of a kind. Sorry.

• by Triangle9349 on 6/8/25, 3:06 PM

  wait for new digg, I hope it doesn't turn into a new reddit

• by pronouncedjerry on 6/9/25, 12:36 AM

  I use brutalist.report

• by blu3h4t on 6/8/25, 6:16 AM

  How about ground news?

• by napier on 6/8/25, 6:46 AM

  Formerly, parts of the formerly free website formerly known as Twitter.

• by throwaway81523 on 6/8/25, 6:41 AM

  Comments here and everywhere else are meh. For general news, lite.cnn.com is fine.

• by archagon on 6/8/25, 3:55 PM

  Metafilter. Many users here would probably not vibe with that community, since it tends to be very liberal and people will call you out for your bullshit. However, quality of discussion tends to be quite high. (Or was when I was last active.)

• by scrozart on 6/9/25, 2:22 AM

  Metafilter, hands down.

• by bufferoverflow on 6/8/25, 5:21 AM

  Reddit, but you have to carefully select your subs. And it's not very useful for politics, because it's very one-sided, very far left, and they ban you for any transgressions that don't fit the narrative.