Ask HN: Hacker News for Computer Engineering?

Probably something like this is closer? http://www.concatnews.com/#hardware,unix

HN should be the place, shouldn't it?

Not really. HN will occasionally have hardware-related content, but they rarely get technical, and HN almost NEVER has content related to hardware design. I work with VHDL and FPGAs every day at my job. I'd really like to see the cool personal projects people are doing with them. HN doesn't do personal projects with FPGAs that I have seen. HN's focus is primarily internet and PC programming.

how about http://hackaday.com/

hardware: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

They have a blog and the one near me has a facebook group.