Hacker News is no alternative. Read any thread about any subject not related to programming, and chances are an expert in the field will show up and point out how wrong the assumptions being made about that field are. This seems to be most common in thread about subjects for which hacker culture holds traditional animosity - business, government and the military, and art or design.
That being the case, and given the contentiousness that tech-related threads also sometimes generate, it's likely most commenters' opinions on programming and CS are only slightly more informed as their opinions on everything else. I'll include myself in this set -- I've been corrected (sometimes harshly) on a number of things I assumed were true and insisted on in good faith.
Take HN with the same healthy dose of salt with which you should take all other media.
> Read any thread about any subject not related to programming, and chances are an expert in the field will show up and point out how wrong the assumptions being made about that field are.
> Read any thread about any subject not related to programming, and chances are an expert in the field will show up
> I've been corrected (sometimes harshly)
Yes, but that's the beauty of it. You get bullshit articles and often bullshit discussions but the quality of discourse is of very high quality, and often verifiable.
