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Hacker News is a social news website initially built by YC co-founder Paul Graham as a demonstration of Arc, a new programming language he'd been working on. Today Hacker News is a go to source for news and discussion surrounding computer science and entrepreneurship, used by millions of people monthly. The site facilitates deeper nested discussion about technology, science and is used by startups and people promoting new ideas in ShowHN section.

Twitter is a popular social network and microblogging site for breaking news in entertainment, sport, politics and nice topics. On Twitter, users can share their ideas in 280 characters or less, or retweet others that they agree with or want to amplify. What makes Twitter unique is the opportunity to discover what's happening in the world in close to real-time. The fact that you can follow a specific audience in a specific niche also makes twitter a great tool for diving deeper and staying up-to-date with topics of your interest.

Reddit is a social news aggregation network and community. On reddit people can share and discuss web content in user created communities called subreddits. Each subreddit rally around specific topics where only related content can be shared, and rated. The web content that can be shared or reddit includes links, text posts, and images which can all be upvoted or downvoted.