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Not in this exact form.

The majority of what HN is went under the name 'trade publications', these have a community surrounding them.

Fine Homebuilding and Green Building Advisor are examples for tradespeople that I frequent.

If they had a flexible forum, agolia search and native imugr it'd be a hugely improved experience.

You should have the ability to load like a whip on a typical workstation from 10-15 years ago, your audience isn't there because of the tech or JS bullcrap. That is one thing HN got 100% right.