NSA is, but Snowden is not (or, at least, wasn't noted as being in the writeup). See here: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.h

NSA is, but Snowden is not (or, at least, wasn't noted as being in the writeup). See here: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...