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This is a story of a hacker, a sysadmin, one of us, who made a choice that could very well cost him his life. He is now being pursued all over the globe by the

This is a story of a hacker, a sysadmin, one of us, who made a choice that could very well cost him his life. He is now being pursued all over the globe by the world's largest super-power, which has yet to catch him. His story directly addresses the role of technology in anonymity and privacy, and the details of his story are full of lots of fun technical details. In addition, he's carrying notebooks that have even more stories about technology, spying, privacy, and such. Yeah, sure, I don't care what he had for lunch or whether he's sitting in the aisle or window seat, but as far as getting attention on HN? What else would you expect?

DanBC 13y ago
> but as far as getting attention on HN? What else would you expect? No-one is calling for zero Snowden articles. What people are asking for is for a reduction in the flood of Snowden trivia. "Snowden Does X" will be reported by the twelve different news sources, and each of these will be posted to HN. Some of these will have blogpost reactions, which also get posted. An hour later some politician will respond to "Snowden Does X", which will be reported by 12 different sources, and blogged about, and etc etc. The submissions are tedious and very repetitive. But, worse, so are the comments. It's pretty much "The NSA is bad, and what they did is bad"; "Snowden is a traitor" or "snowden isn't a traitor". Some of it was mildly interesting but now there's very little new "deeply interesting" commentary. Snowden stories are, now, a good example of "intensely but shallowly interesting".
- DanielBMarkham 13y ago
  Front page stories on HN right now that mention Snowden: "Edward Snowden is not on the flight from Moscow to Cuba" and "Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?" I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Has there been a bunch of noise/trivial stories about Snowden? No doubt. But I already said that. Looks like the voting system is working as it should.

DanBC 13y ago

> but as far as getting attention on HN? What else would you expect? No-one is calling for zero Snowden articles. What people are asking for is for a reduction in the flood of Snowden trivia. "Snowden Does X" will be reported by the twelve different news sources, and each of these will be posted to HN. Some of these will have blogpost reactions, which also get posted. An hour later some politician will respond to "Snowden Does X", which will be reported by 12 different sources, and blogged about, and etc etc. The submissions are tedious and very repetitive. But, worse, so are the comments. It's pretty much "The NSA is bad, and what they did is bad"; "Snowden is a traitor" or "snowden isn't a traitor". Some of it was mildly interesting but now there's very little new "deeply interesting" commentary. Snowden stories are, now, a good example of "intensely but shallowly interesting".

DanielBMarkham 13y ago
Front page stories on HN right now that mention Snowden: "Edward Snowden is not on the flight from Moscow to Cuba" and "Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?" I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Has there been a bunch of noise/trivial stories about Snowden? No doubt. But I already said that. Looks like the voting system is working as it should.