Ask HN: A similar forum/news aggregate site, but mostly for math, physics, CS?

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As the title says. Looking for a HN alternative with intelligent user base minus the stories about Snowden and NSA, tablet reviews, JS frameworks, anti-procrastination articles and latest gossip about programmer celebrities.

Yes, I know about Reddit, and no, I'm not happy with it.

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I wish I knew.

As it stands, I can keep my queue full via sites like High Scalability [0], Research at Google [1], Arxiv [2] and a long list of "Architecture at X" blogs that post sporadically.

On HN I probably spend more time scanning the "new" queue here than the Front Page. Plenty of quality submissions never gain traction.

Obviously, that's just content. I don't have a solution for the lack of community.

0: http://highscalability.com/ 1: http://research.google.com/ 2: http://arxiv.org/

Quite a few clones have been popping up. Here's the latest: http://theidler.org/

You can find the HN source or create your own. It's definitely worth a shot.

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