Good tech communities?

What are some nice link aggregators?
Y combinator: too autistic and 100% emotionless robots
Reddit: soy puns, thank you kind stranger
W4c: extremely dead
Slashdot: badically newgrounds now

Tech is inherently bad. You might as well ask for good gamer communities or good public masturbator communities. Just accept that your awful hobby means either having to put up with human garbage or being isolated.