> "But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim."
> "Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking [...] but they do have to be deeply interesting."
I understand that many people here share your pessimism and this NSA business is surely getting tiresome for them.
It might be I'm just more naive and personally invested in this widescale spying thing because privacy on the internet is something I've always deepely cared about. But that's why, until this thing is sorted out (if at all, I have no idea how), all this wonderful technical stuff that's usually discussed here appears somehow less important in the lights of recent events (to me).
Edit: That doesn't mean that we should flood Hacker News with links to unreliable tabloid articles and force out the technical content entirely, of course. There has to be a middle ground.
> "Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking [...] but they do have to be deeply interesting."
I understand that many people here share your pessimism and this NSA business is surely getting tiresome for them.
It might be I'm just more naive and personally invested in this widescale spying thing because privacy on the internet is something I've always deepely cared about. But that's why, until this thing is sorted out (if at all, I have no idea how), all this wonderful technical stuff that's usually discussed here appears somehow less important in the lights of recent events (to me).
Edit: That doesn't mean that we should flood Hacker News with links to unreliable tabloid articles and force out the technical content entirely, of course. There has to be a middle ground.