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I find it more surprising that HN people read Mashable.

I'm sure there are folks out there that do Digg, Reddit and HN all together. RSS feeds through something like Google Reader help a bunch. And it's good to see Digg reinventing itself - that's always a plus for any company.

I frequented digg before I found HN. I do sometimes go there, but run away in horror quickly.

Not sure why you were downmodded; I agree with your sentiment exactly.

I have found it very difficult to read Digg for the past year or two, similar to how I can't read Slashdot anymore. The highest voted articles are not really that interesting, and you'd think that technical/scientific articles would be more interesting to a group of self-supposed "rationalists". Instead the site is morbidly political, with each "group" colonizing its own set of articles and never interacting.

I much prefer the level of conversation at HN and a handful of blogs.

If you feel that this is a mis-reading of the situation, I strongly recommend this thread:

http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Saying_Yes_to_NoSQL_Going_Ste...

Sort by the highest dugg comment. There are two that I noted at the top that were somewhat interesting, but the rest were just not useful; me too style comments to the extreme.