"Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708
"Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175315
What do you like about HN?
What do you seek to change / improve?
but with less news, less programming, stronger intellectual discussions, more AGI, more philosophy
I started getting ads for it and haven’t given it a try yet but it seems to be a dev news aggregator.
lobste.rs may be the closest, but its referral-based registration leaves you with this odd interleave of being connected to the site potentially by a member you don't actually really know well.
I think they try to discourage that, but I've seen it not work out that way in practice.
Regardless, lobste.rs is a bit too much of a clone.
(I mean, I say that with a tongue in cheek but it's probably actually a legit answer...)