Is that the meta of HN though?

Hackers building out their own private versions of the site, an invisible weave atop the common view: events for folks they follow to chat with, profiles in an iframe with custom links--personal pet features.

Remember dark matter developers? Who knows how much of our echoes reverberate in the space of a holographic universe, streams consumed in a wrapped-app above.

So the social piece is the architecture to enable it, but not published, to make a kind of ownership stickiness...

The first rule is...