I think the beauty of HN is its simplicity. It is beyond all the fancy social web fluff but just "delivers". Almost like a Craigslist for tech news. A peer rev

I think the beauty of HN is its simplicity. It is beyond all the fancy social web fluff but just "delivers". Almost like a Craigslist for tech news. A peer reviewed process is very problematic because news are, even more than research, subjective. So if you are aiming for a truly "fair and balanced" news channel it might work. But even if the news itself are written from a neutral standpoint it sill might give wrong expressions. For example right at this moment 5 of the last 5 news deal in some form with Apple.