[rhlala]

My issue with irc is everyone can see your ip adress right?

Is there any chanel of hackernewsers with the same spirit as HN?

[Doxin]

That depends somewhat. Freenode for example allows you to request a "cloak" to hide your IP as long as you're a) registered, b) not using the web client.

[crtasm]

And to their credit they still allow Tor connections, albeit to an existing registered account and authenticating with key-based SASL.