I believe interesting BTC news, hits HN front-page rather often and from my experience most readers/users are fairly familiar with BTC and understand the technical side (protocol) very well.
Most HNers, being programmers, don't understand the socio-economic aspects of BTC but that's because they don't understand currencies (generally speaking) or the reason of existence of some institutions (e.g. the FED isn't a scheme of the rich for domination of the world's population, which bitcoin will finally set free, to use a free currency, with no fees, hurray!!!).
Most HNers, being programmers, don't understand the socio-economic aspects of BTC but that's because they don't understand currencies (generally speaking) or the reason of existence of some institutions (e.g. the FED isn't a scheme of the rich for domination of the world's population, which bitcoin will finally set free, to use a free currency, with no fees, hurray!!!).