Ask HN: Does a IRC or equivalent chat exist for HNers?

Holy smokes, I found https://www.hnchat.com/

check it out.

Just did. I think OP wants a civilized discussion channel :)

Bug: hnchat's 'N users online' list shows users who are arguably not online

Yeah, great community for HN folks is ##passiveincome on Freenode

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23passiveincome&ui...

#startups on Freenode IRC. There's also a #hn channel, but there's never anybody in there.

Are you referring to a channel? Or the client itself? I believe the channel startups on freenode has catered to the HN community (and was where I heard about it initially), however I'm not sure how many users it has online typically.

channel or area where people chat in a chatroom type deal. I'll take a look at startup, thanks!