Totally sincerely, why not just use reddit for that? Hacker news is not "better" than reddit, it's just (meant to be) highly focused on news that's specifically

Totally sincerely, why not just use reddit for that? Hacker news is not "better" than reddit, it's just (meant to be) highly focused on news that's specifically relevant to the hacker community. The PRISM situation impacts privacy for many software startups, and that's why it's so well covered.