Thanks! This is bound to liven up my stream. I will refrain from adding myself to the HN circle though as I'm currently only a wanna-be hacker. But I do have have a fear of other wannabe hackers adding themselves to the circle and maybe polluting my stream with content that isn't as high quality as I'm used to on HN. (no upvote/downvote mechanism)
when you add the circle, you're adding a copy of the circle and can remove people from your copy any time you want. at least, that's my understanding of how G+ works. so if some goof that you don't like starts posting, you should be able to just remove them.
Hackers are not that elite, it's probably the least elite club. If you want to make or tinker with things you're probably welcome regardless of education or background. However being just plain offensive is another matter.
