Hacker News

A computing-focused community with a tree-based comment system. Invite-only, high signal-to-noise ratio.

News for nerds since 1997. Tech news and discussion from the old web.

Joel Spolsky's classic blog on software development. Founded Stack Overflow and Trello.

Community weblog since 1999. Curated links and thoughtful discussion.

Essays on startups, programming, and life from the co-founder of Y Combinator. Influential and often contrarian.

Phoronix is an actively maintained, high-quality independent technology publication focused on Linux hardware benchmarking, open-source software news, and performance analysis. It embodies the directory philosophy: human-curated editorial content, independent voice (not corporate marketing), deep technical expertise, and serves the Linux/open-source community. Updated daily with substantive technical content.