This story is hugely important. It gets to a deep question everyone here should ask themselves -- beyond immediate concerns of salary, equity, and learning valu

This story is hugely important. It gets to a deep question everyone here should ask themselves -- beyond immediate concerns of salary, equity, and learning value, is my specific work making the world a better place or a worse place? This story goes to the core of ethics in engineering. It's all of 9 hours old and has 341 points -- yet it's already off of the front page where nobody will see it. You could check HN literally every day and still easily miss this story. Meanwhile, the front page is full of unimportant links to obscure tech trivia, many of which have less than 20 points. We know that HN automatically penalizes submissions containing certain words, including "NSA", in the title. Certain prolific HN users have also said that they "automatically flag" submissions they consider "political". But I really think HN would be a better place if the front page cycled out a little slower, if stories like this were not suppressed, if they got at least one day's worth of attention and discussion.