> all the intro and docs assume you understand the problem and couch the discussion in somewhat domain specific language. It might be interesting to me. It might even be relevant to me and I don't know it yet. The problem is I need to work really hard to get to the point of understanding that.

> This is an appeal to authors of such posts: please give a motivation that provides the necessary background to understand the problem, and ideally do so in a way that a technical but non specialist reader can understand.

I agree with this. For Show HN posts, this would really help broaden the audience as well as lift up the audience’s knowledge and enthusiasm.