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Ask HN: Any Curated Forum Directories?

1•catuscubitus•44m ago
Does anyone know any curated forum directories? Forums like in the early 2000s. Places that aren't owned and governed by some corporate overlord. Places with genuine interaction rather than senseless ragebait and "content" designed to generate likes and shares. Places that aren't merely echo-chambers.

I Became a Pediatrician Because I Wanted to Be a Good Adult

https://drped.substack.com/p/i-became-a-pediatrician-because-i
2•jamarna•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ComputeFence – preflight checks for rented GPU training jobs

https://github.com/Francisco-Booth/ComputeFence
1•Exolio_AI•2m ago•0 comments

AI-generated writing: it's still bad

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/08/18/ai-generated-writing-its-still-bad/
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

AI is less likely to launch a nuclear strike when it reasons in Japanese

https://www.unite.ai/ai-is-less-likely-to-launch-a-nuclear-strike-when-it-reasons-in-japanese/
1•50kIters•3m ago•0 comments

Every Steam Frame Official Video Leaked [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpMgjtQhVsI
1•LelouBil•3m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Unraveling Has Begun

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun
4•7777777phil•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I forked an agent stack and measured myself against it, losses included

https://toolbay.ai/stack
1•orion232•6m ago•0 comments

I am so against volunteering in academia (ecology-edition)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/19/why-i-am-so-against-volunteering-in-academia-ec...
1•Tomte•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If you write release notes, what stops you from being specific?

1•gtirloni•8m ago•0 comments

Taurus: Building a live guitar pedalboard from AudioUnit plugins on Mac and iPad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpU4yg9-E9Y
1•arbayi•11m ago•0 comments

The learned helplessness epidemic of the AI era

https://substack.com/sign-in
1•ronniebasak•13m ago•0 comments

Everything at the CLI

1•rmn_tnc•14m ago•1 comments

Qector: Bringing a 15-back end Rust quantum decoder to Claude Desktop

https://github.com/GuillaumeLessard/qector-claude-plugin
1•QECTOR•15m ago•0 comments

The Meaning of the $20 Burrito That's Tearing MAGA Apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/inflation-affordability-prices-burrito.html
5•whack•16m ago•0 comments

How You Build a 4.9-Star Web App (and Where You're Wrong About PWA) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d4cMxSyrlc
1•da02•17m ago•0 comments

U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/us-government-debt-passes-40-trillion-mark-for-the-first-time.html
7•mfiguiere•17m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of [Go] Generics Design

https://golang.design/history/
1•nrr•17m ago•0 comments

GOP issues stark warning to AI companies

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election
3•cdrnsf•19m ago•0 comments

Qualcomm PDQ, the first integrated PDA/OS/Mobile Phone -and why it perished

https://jeffrey-belk.medium.com/chapter-2-qualcomm-pdq-the-first-integrated-pda-os-mobile-phone-i...
1•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

How generative AI affects homework productivity and learning

https://graphics.social/@metin/117123760167000114
1•ColinWright•19m ago•0 comments

Augmented Reality Waste Accumulation Visualizations

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3636970
1•jambalaya8•21m ago•0 comments

Columbia Record Club RIP [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEM2_B5Oks
1•nate•22m ago•0 comments

Paula's Floppy Controller, Part I

https://www.techtravels.org/2026/08/inside-paulas-floppy-controller-part-i/
2•nickt•22m ago•0 comments

Mail-Order Music Club Columbia House Which Started in 1955 Is Ceasing Operations

https://consequence.net/2026/08/columbia-house-closing-down/
1•bookofjoe•24m ago•0 comments

A Human, for AI

https://yourhuman.ai/
1•herbertl•24m ago•0 comments

Detecting Claude and ChatGPT using letter counting

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/19/now-it-spots-chatgpt-too
1•iamflimflam1•25m ago•0 comments

What I Look for When Hiring Senior Software Engineers

https://jesselawson.dev/posts/hiring-senior-engineers/
3•mooreds•27m ago•0 comments

Recapping Positive Phase 3 Topline Results for Intismeran Autogene

https://www.modernatx.com/ir-insights-phase-3-intesmeran
1•doener•28m ago•0 comments

White House Says Slavery Is Being Taught Wrong, Should Not Be So Negative

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-says-slavery-being-taught-wrong-should-not-so-negative-2117100
10•Moazz•29m ago•5 comments

Woman dies, comes back to life, gets parking ticket

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361021333/woman-dies-comes-back-life-gets-parking-ticket
1•lattefa•31m ago•1 comments