[GordonS]

Hmm, I wonder if the HN folks have ever thought about doing "spin offs", like Stackoverflow did with the StackExchange network.

[jacquesm]

It's been tried, but non every really took off except for lobste.rs, and even that has only a very small fraction of the traffic that HN carries.

There was a period when every few days there would be a 'HN for 'X'' post.