Since I live in an area that isn't very plugged into the tech world at large, seeing blog posts aggregated on HN can clue me into some interesting technologies

Since I live in an area that isn't very plugged into the tech world at large, seeing blog posts aggregated on HN can clue me into some interesting technologies -- I started using grafana and prometheus for something at work and it ended up being the right choice that other coworkers would not have figured out. Without HN I probably wouldn't know much about these technologies.