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I actually assumed it was from the GitHub blog from the front page link, so assumed it was from former colleagues / friends (I worked at GH, and know many of th

I actually assumed it was from the GitHub blog from the front page link, so assumed it was from former colleagues / friends (I worked at GH, and know many of the fine people there). Then I realized it was just a random GH repo and some sort of security tools software. And even then, was full of its own jargon -- blue team / red team / white team. So I could only ask wtf is this even doing here. Like how does this particular security software impact my life as a generalist software developer, or even if I was just some random technologist person.

pault 8y ago
There are a lot of security experts on HN and I personally find it an interesting topic even though I have very little knowledge of that industry. Since the guidelines are "anything that could be of interest to hackers" and security research consists of creative use of low level software and hardware, I don't see how it's a strange topic for HN at all. I'm sure there are many other articles here that don't intersect with a generalist software developer's area of expertise.
neatcoder 8y ago
HN often contains very specialized articles that would not make much sense to people not involved in the technology. That doesn't prevent such articles from being upvoted. There are enough specialists within various domains in HN to be interested in such articles. This is not a typical generalist-software-developer-only forum.
freehunter 8y ago
I work in information security and do you know the number of articles I see here on a daily basis that have their own jargon and doesn't help my life I wonder WTF is this doing here? This is a big forum with lots of people who do lots of things. This isn't "Rsanheim News", not everything needs to be custom tailored to your desires. Since you work in the tech industry, you should be aware that Google exists and you can very quickly find out what a SIEM is (if you don't do log management you should look into it) and what a red team is (if you don't do security audits you should look into it) and hey, now you know what the subject is.
- rsanheim 8y ago
  "rsanheim news" is all lowercase, btw

pault 8y ago

There are a lot of security experts on HN and I personally find it an interesting topic even though I have very little knowledge of that industry. Since the guidelines are "anything that could be of interest to hackers" and security research consists of creative use of low level software and hardware, I don't see how it's a strange topic for HN at all. I'm sure there are many other articles here that don't intersect with a generalist software developer's area of expertise.

neatcoder 8y ago

HN often contains very specialized articles that would not make much sense to people not involved in the technology. That doesn't prevent such articles from being upvoted. There are enough specialists within various domains in HN to be interested in such articles. This is not a typical generalist-software-developer-only forum.

freehunter 8y ago

I work in information security and do you know the number of articles I see here on a daily basis that have their own jargon and doesn't help my life I wonder WTF is this doing here? This is a big forum with lots of people who do lots of things. This isn't "Rsanheim News", not everything needs to be custom tailored to your desires. Since you work in the tech industry, you should be aware that Google exists and you can very quickly find out what a SIEM is (if you don't do log management you should look into it) and what a red team is (if you don't do security audits you should look into it) and hey, now you know what the subject is.

rsanheim 8y ago
"rsanheim news" is all lowercase, btw