There's a reason this is blowing up on "Hacker" News ;-).
As far as I have seen, HN always has the latest news of mostly all fields. I have questions this in the past but I I told that hackers hackers interested in in this. And rightly so. There seems to be a lot of discussion on these topics
One would expect hackers to be upset about massive dragnet surveillance.
I don't like that nsa news takes 80% from HN recently, but I assume it's in our long term best interest.