@sandgorgon. Good Points all. A couple of minor points. My distaste is not so much about the name per se as the casualness of the ripoff. One email to the orig

@sandgorgon. Good Points all. A couple of minor points. My distaste is not so much about the name per se as the casualness of the ripoff. One email to the original site's owner (in this case PG) would have set things right one way or another before launching. Apparently this is being done now. Better late than never. pg will probably wave this through (or not) and that will be that. Then the "HNI" folks can focus on quality ;-) As to the need for a community to "shepherd in" bright kids, it is an interesting idea but I am not so sure this is an answer to that need or even whether that need even exists in any deep fashion. (I speak as someone mentoring some ultra bright students working in Machine Learning). Something like Google Summer of Code might work much better. But, you maybe right. Maybe "shepherding" is what people need and perhaps a localized HN-lite site is what is needed. For some reason I am not too comfortable with the idea. I need to think about this. Thank you for your thoughts. They made me (re)think.