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I don't really think of HN today as being for any geography. Sure, it may have a slightly Silicon Valley-centric feel but SV also is the epicenter for HN type activity and YC is based there so perhaps only natural.

Genuine question - What does the "for Australia" achieve that HN today doesn't?

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I think in terms of "news" I don't think it achieves anything unless the news is inherently local focused. i.e. our own raising of $500k wasn't huge news in the US, but it was a big deal here in Aus.

A good example is the current top topic "co-working space opens in Marrickville"...certainly wouldn't be of interested to anyone outside of NSW.

In my mind, anything that raises the profile of local events/news is a good thing. I think I'd have preferred to see an actual localised version of HN which rates "local" content higher than US content (perhaps).

Even more general: Some way of tagging HN articles to identify their subject (e.g. geography, programming language, etc) and then allowing readers to express their interests and so rank articles according to personal interests rather than just voting by the masses.

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