Hacker news used to be a place I turned to for that sort of thing, but yes lately it has become a complete horror show, especially with the advent of AIs I mainly want to imprison the creators, inflict corporeal punishment, etc. (I have found it soothing/calming to imagine e.g. various terrible tech leaders being tortured) - not that I don't value knowing which terrible things are happening in the world of computing or otherwise but I miss when HN was spewing out interesting new frameworks every other day.

I don't think it's on HN though, every time I find a new community that is more like that it seems it slowly becomes corrupted, usually thanks in part to some idiotic tech bro "oh we made it easy so now your meditative thing has a bunch of annoying notifications, yay progress"