I must admit I read HN quite a lot :/

I found out about GitLab via Hacker News and the company got started after the kind reaction to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278

We also have a "mentions-of-gitlab" channel in our chat that will alert us of any mentions of GitLab on any major place in the internet.

I'm ignoring that for now because it is overwhelming. Luckily we have a team of community advocates who respond to that.