There are some semi-new media skills for reading this kind of online forum.
Which skills an individual reader employs depends on their goal in reading the forum (e.g., seek out particular information you suspect might be there, skimming for anything that looks interesting/relevant, idle distraction while bored at work or somewhere that you can't do much else, various amusing tribal rituals like on Reddit, etc.).
(We employ baby versions of these skills, when monitoring the Racket email lists throughout the day. Even though most of the content here is on-topic, I'm still skimming, at best, and occasionally bookmarking interesting stuff to look into later.)
Anyway, HN attracts a smart bunch of programming enthusiasts, and I'd love for more of them to start using Racket.
Neil V. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
