HN has very wide range of audience from differnet domains(business, biology, physics, maths etc etc). Pentesters/Wannabehacker is just one of the small groups. HN community really reflects guildline -
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
What you're looking for is very specific domain. In HN's context 'Hacker' doesn't mean only security domain but The Hacker Attitude (from this - http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html) which could be applied to any domain.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
What you're looking for is very specific domain. In HN's context 'Hacker' doesn't mean only security domain but The Hacker Attitude (from this - http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html) which could be applied to any domain.