I am going to repeat some advice I once received, you can not change others you can only change yourself. As applied to this situation, the NSA story has domin

I am going to repeat some advice I once received, you can not change others you can only change yourself. As applied to this situation, the NSA story has dominated HN front page less than 24 hours, and things will go back to normal, but not because you or anyone else forces others behavior. In the meantime, what you do have control over is the fact that you are only a click away from reading an unlimited cache of interesting stories all over the web, you do not need them feed to you through HN. Or take PG's advice and stop reading HN and get back to hacking. Give it another 24 hours and I imagine you will come back to a diverse HN front page. For the record, I do not want to discourage you from trying to change/modify the behavior of others, but sometimes it is important to focus internally and the things we can immediately control.