Now I want to build a "that's what she said" bot for Twitter, which will parse new tweets and reply accordingly. (Maybe I will, as a learning exercise.)
Actually, a fair part of the links about programming are just the same both here and on Reddit.
Edit: All the same, I'll try giving /r/programming a chance. As a whole, Reddit looks less civil than HN, but maybe I haven't been fair. People tend to criticize subjects that they don't know about or have never experienced 1st hand, and I'm guilty of that here.
Well, the thing is that people on reddit know better than to take themselves too seriously, and as a result you get plenty of amusing things mixed in to the comments.
For HN, on the other hand, commenting is Serious Business(TM), not to be wasted on such frivolities.
Some people like the HN approach. Personally I prefer to have a little fun every now and again.
HN makes my daily read list, even if it is a quick glance. Great community.
Not claiming it's accurate - I'm not a Redditer. Just clarifying.
That being said, I don't think the discussion on Reddit is worthless at all. Yes, there's quite a bit of joking, which is good to read at 4pm when you are stuck at a bug. But this particular topic is an excellent example of the value of the Reddit discussion: reading through the jokes, etc. provides interesting thoughts about implementing the TWSS bot.
So, the two discussions are complementary. For particular stories, I head over to proggit and see what the Redditers have commented.
I'd actually be intrigued at how simple the algorithm could be and still be mostly on the mark, rather than how much NLP you could squeeze in...