I HAVE to take a break from Hacker News whenever some hot button story like Ed Snowden or Heartbleed is dominating the entire front page. I don't need to see a

I HAVE to take a break from Hacker News whenever some hot button story like Ed Snowden or Heartbleed is dominating the entire front page. I don't need to see a dozen blogger's opinions on simple news items like that. If I want thorough analysis of those types of important issues, I'm definitely not looking to the Hacker News crowd to source them. Prog blogs are awful. And so is some amateur libertarian paranoid's half-baked, uninformed opinion on complicated issues like NSA surveillance programs.