Ask HN: Hacker News-like forums for other fields?

thanatropism · on June 3, 2020

I find myself learning a lot more about e.g. problems in software engineering "in the large" than I otherwise would because HN is such a nice experience overall. But I'm keen to learn more about e.g. logistics from the same kind of practical atmosphere where links are timely, knowledgeable and relevant, and commenters are intelligent and often experienced.

What do e.g. air cargo in passenger planes people congregate? Or warehouse people?

dhruvkar · on June 3, 2020

I work in this space and online blogs are incredibly sparse. Would love to know as well.

Here's an article I found interesting about air cargo software (my dad learned on this at Swiss Air in the 70s-80s)

https://retool.com/blog/air-travel-software/

Another one about supply chain of bananas. Flexport writes about interesting stuff once in a while:

https://www.flexport.com/blog/supply-chain-of-the-banana/

ShorsHammer · on June 3, 2020

> warehouse people

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

WMCRUN · on June 3, 2020

Agreed, would love to find or create the internet’s canteen of unusual shipping lore.

gk1 · on June 3, 2020

For UI/UX and other design topics there's the very active https://www.designernews.co.

There's datatau.net for data science, but it's not very active. Has great potential but I think the mod(s) have been very quick to shadowban users for posting anything remotely commercial. So now it's just the same few people posting Medium and TowardsDataScience articles. I hope it can be revitalized or someone else makes a better HN clone.

coldsnap427 · on June 3, 2020

For a website dedicated to UI/UX, it's quite atrocious.

dhruvkar · on June 3, 2020

https://0x00sec.org/

for security, malware analysis, reversing etc. It's more of a forum, but the write-ups are pretty helpful

soared · on June 3, 2020

For blackhat seo the site below is interesting to poke through every once in a while. I would highly recommend never using any tactic posted, but interesting to see people trying to game google's algorithms. A good chunk of it is mildly technical but understandable by most.

https://www.blackhatworld.com/

hiidrew · on June 3, 2020

Not nearly as active as HN but for design—https://www.designernews.co/

set92 · on June 4, 2020

Data science: https://datatau.net/