Is there a community like hacker news for librarians

As you might know there is community called Hacker News for software developers (hackers) that they discuss the hottest stories in the world about their field (programming and technology). Even people can ask questions that normally are considered off topic in StackExchange websites and get opinionated Answers. Is there an similar community or website for librarians?

Arash Milani

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• Ashley Nunn: Hi Arash! There are a number of blogs and the like - Library Journal, among others - where you can usually find up to date interesting library related stories. Unfortunately, as this is a perfect example of the types of list questions that do not work well on the SE network. See Good Subjective, Bad Subjective, and Real Questions Have Answers for more helpful guidance! :)
• Arash Milani: Thank you @AshleyNunn for the `Library Journal Link`. and for noting about the question itself.
• ksclarke: I'm not sure I see how this was a subjective question. It wasn't "What's the best library programming news site out there?" but "Are there any sites like X." The X there is a very specific kind of site (not a judgment on the value of those types of sites). Seems like a valid question to me.
• ksclarke: So, for instance, an answer might have mentioned http://news.librarycloud.org/ which is the most like the mentioned site in format (but also noted that it's not that widely used). It might have referenced the Code4Lib.org community (which has a mailing list, IRC, aggregation of blogs, etc., but not so much a news site) as a possible alternative to the Hacker News format. It also might have mentioned the reddit libraries community: http://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/ (which probably attracts more of the techy type).