[batman-farts]

I find that the main reason I come here is for information/background chatter about various open source projects and the trends behind them. In other words, fairly granular technical news interspersed with general interest science and math stories. Slashdot used to fill this need for me, but it seems like it fell off in editorial quality and comprehensiveness after changing hands so many times. Plus the commentariat over there seems to have thinned out, as well as skewed older and more bitter, the last few times I’ve visited.

I do appreciate a site where I can learn just as much from the commenters as I can from the stories, and this place definitely still provides that. But I also agree that the YCombinator/VC connection means that too much of the content here uncritically rides industry hype waves (crypto, AI… what’s next? Some kind of applied biotech? Asteroid mining?).

What are some good alternatives? Phys.org is great for general science but there isn’t always a lot of CS crossover.