Both of your ideas really good - a 'paper of the day' or some other way of narrowing content so achieve fusion. hacker community is also a great focus, since th

Both of your ideas really good - a 'paper of the day' or some other way of narrowing content so achieve fusion. hacker community is also a great focus, since there is a lot of first-adopters, willingness to use new things etc. Even more unsolicited advice: I would NOT assume it will happen naturally - in fact restriction is your best friend. Stackoverflow did not allow people to simply create new communities, it restricted this quite a bit. Even GitHub initially cultivated its roots in the Ruby community, which then spread to adjacent communities. Likewise many communities delineate borders and delete user content. Stackoverflow likes concrete questions, for instance. Tumblr doesn't allow comments. Limits are your friend. "Papers for Hackers" has differentiation & a lot more likely to succeed. I think it'd be awesome to cultivate this actively. Perhaps it comes with code examples linked to github etc.