Part of the reason HN works is, in my opinion, the fact that its demographic is already terminaly online. (Or at least terminaly at the terminal, lol.) It's als

Part of the reason HN works is, in my opinion, the fact that its demographic is already terminaly online. (Or at least terminaly at the terminal, lol.) It's also a larger demographic than scientists. But as others have said there are scientists on HN. I imagine a "science HN" would for the most part just be links to journals with comments? That could be interesting.