I'm hoping to collect some recommendations for sites that have a similar news aggregator functionality like HN, but with more of an actual focus on technology/hacker space/CS careers/etc.
For whatever my personal opinion is worth, it seems that HN has, over the past 2-3 years become an amalgamation of r/news, r/politics, r/TIL, and other popular subreddits that might have some kind of a technology-adjacent topic.
It feels similar to how Instagram Reels, or Youtube shorts, are merely copy/pasted Tik Tok videos (this is probably a different conversation altogether.)
It has a lot of crap, but also a lot of small post that die with 5-10 points. (I don't like the threads in the front page, because they usually have too many unrelated comments.)
Also, there is the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
It has a list of post curated by the mods. Those projects get a second chance, and go for a short time to the front page.
https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/
it is top-quality trash talk and got a lot more upvotes than the solution
https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/
which was 100% successful application of technology that people like to talk about FAANG doing but muggles can't be bothered to make a training set.
When I was in a tough spot and needed a job I attached that code to a workflow system and got a ML job before the system was half done.
I am looking at repurposing that system again to maximize my post-Coronavirus life.
See https://bengtan.com/interesting-things.
Or see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255 for a prior discussion.