The people I keep forgetting to beg for an invitation. The punchline to that joke is that lobsters is a read-only-unless-invited board similar to HN. Many of the topics discussed on both boards often parallel each other, so a comparison should usually be valid.
It's the OpenBSD to HN's Linux--more selective, more conservative, not being overrun by startup propaganda, politics, news, ads, and other pathologies of sites like this.
The people I keep forgetting to beg for an invitation. The punchline to that joke is that lobsters is a read-only-unless-invited board similar to HN. Many of the topics discussed on both boards often parallel each other, so a comparison should usually be valid.