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 gui

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.