Absolutely! or rather, I will pass the request on to the people who are actually doing the work, and hope they will look kindly on it :)

I don't understand mastoverse mechanics, so perhaps someone could suggest the most HN-friendly way to go about it?

Cross posting to Bluesky too would be cool, and reach even more people. There are many ways to post, but lots of people use https://typefully.com

Maybe use Bridgy on a Mastodon feed?