- Reddit was once such a place but now it is quite gone , with only echo chambers due to nature serious moderation of down-votes - people afraid to go against `Popular opinion` . And /r/Programming or /r/Python is full of new people , just want to learn to program these days so cannot go into serious tech discussions.

- Medium needs subscriptions just to read some popular articles.

Dev.to is not bad , but not much discussions going on , its more of a site to shill and quite Bloggy where i am looking for discussions.

Stackoverflow and Quora are not included in the list since they are Question and Answer.

I am looking for a discussion community with moderation style of HN - That is focused on Programming , Software Development , Devops , Architecture , good principles , etc.