Those sound very interesting to me. I wish I'd seen them, and I'm going to go visit your 2nd and 4th links right now. HN just has a lot of traffic all going th

Those sound very interesting to me. I wish I'd seen them, and I'm going to go visit your 2nd and 4th links right now. HN just has a lot of traffic all going through one main view. Unless a submission proves that the government is taking away (and/or restoring) our anonymity/privilege/guns/lisp/java/bitcoins, it's pretty hard to get shelf space. Regarding rating ... except for submissions optimized purely for popularity, I don't think upvotes are a "rating" at all. I could easily see Marcus Aurelius getting four upvotes and Caligula getting 500. That's not their Emperor Rating. EDIT: The DLA thing is cool.