I'm really glad for this post. I'm the organizer of LA Hacker News ( http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/ ), and I've found that posts for upcoming metups just don't make it to the frontpage anymore.

Luckily, we built up traction in the past while we could.

btw, meetup already does this automatically on a topic basis. Your group only has one topic, hacking, so it will show up on the map at http://hacking.meetup.com. Likewise, you can see groups tagged with "hacker news" at http://hacker-news.meetup.com.

(disclosure: i work for meetup)

This is an example of our latest feature release, Guides. (Blog entry: http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/guides/ Featured guides page: http://lanyrd.com/guides/)

I've created the Hacker News Meetups guide as an "open" guide, which means any Lanyrd user can join the guide and help out by adding events we've missed.

Feature request: easily filter by geography. As much as I would like to go, Tokyo and Amsterdam are out of driving distance for me. I can search, but then I lose the HN specific part, so I have to do more complex searches.

Otherwise, great tool. I hope it catches because I'm sure there are things going on around me I'm clueless about and would like to be more clueful.

I've been thinking about that as well - we do have a place filter against our existing "topics" feature, so you can subscribe to an ical or RSS feed from here:

http://lanyrd.com/topics/hacker-news/in/uk/

(change /in/uk/ to another place for different pages)

We may well add a /in/uk/ filter to guides as well, not sure how we'd expose it in the UI though.

Shocking to see yet another YC "start-up" hawking the essential nonsense which is HN.

Sell, sell, sell you have 14 minutes before the patina fades.

San Diego - http://cses.ucsd.edu/wiki/index.php/San_Diego_Hacker_News_Me...

Agree with andrewvc about it being increasingly impossible to get meetup announcements onto the HN frontpage.

Thanks, listed here and added to the guide: http://lanyrd.com/2012/san-diego-hacker-news-meetup-jan/

Anyone want to have Boston/Cambridge one? I can schedule it.

Count me interested.

jim shoot me an email or ping me on twitter so I can contact you when I try to organize one.