Why CTFs while being insanely technical seems to be not popular on HN?

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in before: I'm relatively new hereHN seems to be very tech community, yet security and things like CTF which do require proficency and experience in both - theory and practice doesn't seem to be popular herewhy it may be a thing?

ColinWright · Accepted Answer

(a) What's CTF?(b) Why do you think it's not popular?But even without knowing the answers to those questions, in general I've found that anything that requires significant amounts of both theory and practice tends to have a very small potential audience, and HN is no different in that regard.

croh · Answer

HN has very wide range of audience from differnet domains(business, biology, physics, maths etc etc). Pentesters/Wannabehacker is just one of the small groups. HN community really reflects guildline -
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
What you're looking for is very specific domain. In HN's context 'Hacker' doesn't mean only security domain but The Hacker Attitude (from this - http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html) which could be applied to any domain.

mettamage · Answer

On HN you don't see CTF writeups, but you do see a lot of responsible disclosure type of articles.This is truly just a random guess, but maybe it's because CTFs aren't real and real security vulnerabilities are.

shitscoop · Answer

HN isn't really for in-depth technical discussion.It's more a venue for techbro chest-thumping, and being highly opinionated on topics that one only has a surface understanding of.

Why CTFs while being insanely technical seems to be not popular on HN?

in before: I'm relatively new here
HN seems to be very tech community, yet security and things like CTF which do require proficency and experience in both - theory and practice doesn't seem to be popular here
why it may be a thing?

(a) What's CTF?
(b) Why do you think it's not popular?
But even without knowing the answers to those questions, in general I've found that anything that requires significant amounts of both theory and practice tends to have a very small potential audience, and HN is no different in that regard.

On HN you don't see CTF writeups, but you do see a lot of responsible disclosure type of articles.
This is truly just a random guess, but maybe it's because CTFs aren't real and real security vulnerabilities are.

HN isn't really for in-depth technical discussion.
It's more a venue for techbro chest-thumping, and being highly opinionated on topics that one only has a surface understanding of.