I dont think there needs to be a trademark to not want to cause confusion. The majority of people in our field know that this is hacker news, sometimes they tal

I dont think there needs to be a trademark to not want to cause confusion. The majority of people in our field know that this is hacker news, sometimes they talk about it to someone who doesn't know. That new person finds "the hacker news" and thinks that their coworker is a 1337 hax0r.