I could certainly try an "Ask HN" at some point, but haven't been able to think exactly what question I would ask. "How many people know what a reverse caber tosser is?" is one that I'm curious about, but I suspect I'd get mostly just crickets. Really I wanted other people to ask questions... and I'm having lots of fun with the results so far!
There isn't any harm, if anything, more experts, accidental or otherwise, should do this.
Something just occurred to me from a review of recent HN item titles: maybe what I _will_ try sometime is a "Show HN" post, for some shiny new Life discovery that seems particularly interesting.
The example I'm thinking most about is the fixed-cost 15-glider construction for absolutely anything that's glider-constructible at all --
for which we do have some eminently runnable code that showcases the entire process of 15-glider construction from beginning to end, with subtitles ...
https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=153609#p153609
... running inside Golly, but that's a free download, and the Lua script version doesn't need any extra Python installation or configuration or anything.So if I don't get too much "Nah don't do that" feedback here, I might try putting up a Show HN post for the new super-optimized RCT15 project, once the last pieces of that get completed.