[redthrowaway]

HN is fairly anti-reddit because a lot of the people on here were early reddit adopters who left when it ceased to be programming and tech-centric, and when the site got big enough that the quality of the average comment dropped. That said, there are some great subreddits on there, you just have to cut out most of the main ones. I dropped r/pics, r/atheism, r/worldnews, r/gaming, and r/reddit.com. I added r/humor, r/netsec, r/python, r/java, r/math, r/depthub, r/truereddit, and a few others. It's a much improved experience, now.

[dhughes]

> HN is fairly anti-reddit

I don't get that impression here at all, quite often you'll see Reddit articles on HN linked back to Reddit. I agree HN is more industry focused and professional and Reddit a lot more laid back but still can be professional at times.

HN and Reddit are similar but also quite different, I go to both and sometimes even digg (I know!) and whatever else I can find, I don't get this mentality that you're only allowed get to choose one social news website to view.

[redthrowaway]

Any discussion of reddit here usually ends up being people complaining about it. Yes, there are often reddit links posted here, but whenever reddit is brought up, people will usually complain about how it's full of /b/tards, it's all just memes and pun threads, there's no useful comments there, etc. While this may be true for the larger subreddits, my point is simply that there are some great small ones where the quality of discussion is much higher.

[cryptoz]

r/coding is an excellent place to hang out too :)