That wasn't always true. For a while, the quality and quantity of programming links on hn were superior to /r/programming. That hasn't been true lately: For whatever reason, in the few years I've been following both, hn and /r/programming have maintained an inverse relationship on the level of code hacking goodness.
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Except Hacker News is even worse at r/programming than r/programming.
That wasn't always true. For a while, the quality and quantity of programming links on hn were superior to /r/programming. That hasn't been true lately: For whatever reason, in the few years I've been following both, hn and /r/programming have maintained an inverse relationship on the level of code hacking goodness.