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

Community blog on rationality and AI. Deep discussions on thinking clearly.

Effective altruism community. Discussions on doing the most good.

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

The original tech news aggregator. Simple design, active community, sometimes contentious but often insightful.

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.