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Comment by qaq | Hacker News Reader

Wonder why security topics never get much interest on HN. It's a huge industry with a ton of VC funding going to security startups.

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Eh, it depends on the topic. Binary reversing stuff rarely gets much love, but there frankly just aren't too many people doing that stuff. Web security things get lots of love, usually -- I both launched and sold a web security class via HN, very successfully -- because there are just so many people who are interested in it; it's the bread and butter of the industry nowadays. And anything privacy-oriented or seriously pwned always gets clicks and upvotes.

But yeah, this stuff is good content but doesn't have much reach.

I'd have said it's of consistently high interest. What makes you say it isn't?

I might be really off but it seems they rarely get more than 50 comments (unless it's some major breach).

Did you see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315273? It's just one data point but you might find it interesting.

There is a pattern where highly specialized technical posts don't get as many comments, relative to votes. Possibly reverse engineering and other security-related specialties fall into this. One can see the same thing in e.g. articles about type theory: people are interested, but don't necessarily feel qualified to add to the discussion. That's probably good if it prevents the dumb sorts of comment from getting posted, but maybe the threads would be more valuable if more users would ask questions. Then the users who know could explain, and more learning would take place.

Then again Ghidra was hyped for months prior to its release.

Good point might be because it was NSA tool

Upvotes and comments are very different; even commenting beyond a certain limit counts negatively towards the article's front page position. If you want a lot of comments start an argument.

Binary, firmware and hardware level security topics are academically most satisfying and fun to me. But there is a lot of mystery in these topics, given the inherent negativity and legal grey areas people have to deal with. I guess that is one of the reasons..

For one, the article seems to be impossible to read on an iPhone via safari.

Add this to your iphone's rss reader:

https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/...

Content will be made readable and inlined into the feed.

It seems to break in a different way every time I reload the page.

Mind telling me which model? Could be my my piss poor CSS acting up at that resolution.

What's the issue? I'll message the author.

I got here via the front page, which would seem to discredit your theory.

Anyway VC funding doesn't necessarily equate to being interesting.

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