Ask PG: Why did you kill the N*S*A* stories on HN? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask PG: Why did you kill the NSA* stories on HN?

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Post by miga » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 1:44 PM UTC

Because so many interesting things happened beside NSA stories? Or so I hope.

Re: Ask PG: Why did you kill the NSA* stories on HN?

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Post by rayiner » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 1:44 PM UTC

xauronx wrote: post #3

Hopefully because Hackernews was becoming NSANews.com. That shit was obnoxious. When 20 of the top 25 posts are about one topic you might as well open a new tab and do a search for that topic.

I don't mind the NSA articles, since I can just skip them depending on my mood, but I was a bit miffed that the iPhone 5S thread was all about "zomg fingerprints!" Nobody wanted to talk about 64-bit A7, the uses of the fingerprint sensor, etc.

Re: Ask PG: Why did you kill the NSA* stories on HN?

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Post by unimpressive » Wed, Sep 11, 2013, 1:46 PM UTC

Probably because he felt it was turning into cryptome.org during the crypto wars. (Obsessive, posts anything related to the subject.)