Though the tone and relevance of your post may not have been spot on, I have to agree. I spend an inordinate amount of my free time reading news and in-depth political commentary, but I've found myself returning to HN less and less as sophomoric legal analysis and cyber-anarchist hero worship is regurgitated to the front page ad nauseam.

This is not to say I agree with "Prism" or dragnet surveillance, but I've found HN to be the last place I've found actual insight on the issue as of late.