Even a title of "SHA-3 NIST announcement controversy" would be good.
Do you want HN commenters to determine if SHA-3 would have been cryptographically secure with the proposed changes? I don't think most people here are qualified to answer that.
Or do you want to know people's feelings about the NSA/NIST connection? I think that's fairly covered ground.
The problem is that I don't know of a really open system like Hacker News that has the same content and community.
Same thing with reddit.
RSS is the right type of idea but you can't comment and it has other limitations compared to things like reddit and Hacker News.
Its not that the overloads are malicious, its just that those types of efforts are completely misguided.
I wonder if anyone knows of any open distributed unedited unmoderated systems that have features and communities like reddit or Hacker News. Ideally not even a single web site, but more like an open peer-to-peer distributed protocol with multiple clients.
Or you could cryptographically sign every single one of your posts so that people could see whether they've been edited or not. I suspect a lump of ASCIIArmor to your posts would not be popular.
I think the bigger problem is that the era of the semantic web/community standards like RSS, etc has largely passed us by. Participation now occurs on unmoderated sites like Twitter/Tumblr/etc, or on moderated community forums (and in a context where there's interesting content but I can't choose who specifically to follow, I prefer moderation).