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Suddenly the front page is Snowden Snowden Snowden. Hacker News is even worse than Reddit at latching to news-of-the-minute.
by sublimit 13y ago
Suddenly the front page is Snowden Snowden Snowden. Hacker News is even worse than Reddit at latching to news-of-the-minute.
- trevelyan 13y agoThe unraveling of the American Republic is news of the century. Additionally, in terms of the implications of this leak for geopolitics and Internet business/security, this is easily the biggest and most important story in international affairs since 2001.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThe unraveling of the American Republic Hyperbole much?
- xtracto 13y agoBut still not hacker news. This type of news was part of the doom of Slashdot. Sure, political news are fine, but a lot of us do not come to Hacker News for political news... we are aware of Reddit, Slashdot and news.google.com
- samstave 13y agoThis whole situation is of extreme importance though, especially to the long term future of pretty much all technology companies. I am actually extraordinarily happy that this has been all over HN and especially that there has been some amazing dialogue from HNers on this.