Right...because with all their super-surveillance powers, they're going to be blinded by that title and miss the fact that HN is a fairly pedestrian community consisting mostly of entrepreneurs, technologists on the make, and few artists and oddballs. This reading of things requires us to believe that government is both omnipotent and incompetent, neither of which are true to the extent that people like to imagine.
We already know they're more likely to target encrypted connections, so what does mean for those who enable encrypted communication?
You can go ahead and make fun of this like you did a few comments below, but if you believe this couldn't happen then I think you've been living under a rock the past few weeks.
To be frank I don't; Hacker News is a very tame community. There are lots and lots of internet communities ranging from fringe politics to neo-nazi groups that rank way higher in the 'potential domestic threat' category.