[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.