[stillsut]

I'm always curious when someone shows up with a super impressive project, but has never registered a user name on Hacker News.

Can I ask "where have you been all this time" - Do you have some other aggregator or blogroll that you follow? Do you try to avoid time wasted surfing different articles and comments? Did you know about HN before and avoid it due to its reputation, etc?

[sentdex]

I've just never felt the urge to post on hacker news, but it's in my list of places I check frequently for news, I just lurk though. Maybe it's because I dunno how to hacker news, but I just look at the front page. Usually, by the time I am seeing something on HN, whatever I think or have to offer has already been said, usually more eloquently than I'd come up with.

I have more of a presence on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/user/sentdex/). The bar is lower there. ;)

For news, I have a bookmark dir with a bunch of sources in it, I right click and open all whenever I want to check in and see what the world is up to.

[cr0sh]

> whatever I think or have to offer has already been said

I've only been on HN for about six months now, but from what I have seen in this short time, I wouldn't let "fear" of saying something or posting something you think has already been done stop you.

Case in point: Your first posting. Look at the attention it has gotten. I enjoyed it, and others have enjoyed it. But guess what?

In my short time here I've seen other similar projects posted - and that's not anything against you or them! Ultimately, it's how we all learn from each other, and you shouldn't let prior work stop you from posting - there may be a nugget of new work or something else interesting about it that makes it worthwhile.

For instance, while your project isn't the first of its kind, I do think it may be one of the first to be done in OpenAI's GTA V universe system; even if not, it's one of the few that have been posted here - so it's relatively "fresh".

Just my observations, of course - and thank you for posting!

[nickpsecurity]

Although without super-impressive project, I didn't know Hacker News existed until a year or two ago despite over a decade reading on IT, INFOSEC, etc. I was mostly on blogs/forums where I saw knowledgeable people talking about my interests with low noise. Especially Schneier's blog before Snowden leaks when noise showed up.

I think Hacker News has a marketing problem. Many people here assume all the technical folks know about and read it. Whereas, most I meet have never heard of it. So, I just tell them about it. Now, we don't want to give it a bad rap by being zealots shouting about it in places everywhere. But, if bookmarking excellent discussions, you might just drop a link to them when they solve a problem or provide insight that's on another forum. "Hey, that exact thing was discussed on Hacker News with a lot of interesting ideas. Link below. You should probably check out the homepage as it often has lots of neat tech, businesses, etc sometimes with the inventors of them in the comments."

That's what I've been doing.

[mistermann]

Personally, I very much prefer that HN is not publicized.

[nickpsecurity]

How about only doing it on forums or threads with potentially-valuable members? That's what I do with Lobste.rs give Im responsible for who I invite.

[markovbling]

He's been posting great Python tutorials on YouTube for years under the same channel name as his username - super impressive