This is an excellent idea, and I love the comments so far. It's great to see how open the community is to the idea of others taking a great technology/idea and

This is an excellent idea, and I love the comments so far. It's great to see how open the community is to the idea of others taking a great technology/idea and applying it in new ways. I hope ideas from Academic Hacker News will be able to flow back and influence the original hacker news.