Congress has (and always has had) a significantly more political focus than DEFCON - there's some very good talks on technology and ethics in there.

I'd assume most people that know about HN know about the Chaos Computer Club.

This is a form of "feigning surprise", and it's somewhat rude.

Except I had literally never heard of them. And the only comments on this topic (when I posted) were other people asking who they were and why this was on HN.

I wonder if you noticed any of these recent frontpage submissions and just didn't associate them with the CCC: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

I recognize those headlines. I don't believe I clicked a single one of them though (if I did I likely closed it as soon as I saw it was a video). Not that it matters. I opened this HN article wondering what it was all about.. saw several others had already commented they had no idea what it was about.. so I looked it up. And here we are.

Don't ever make an assumption like that. I have never come across this group.