Federal judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal
boston.com
boston.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971454 (nytimes.com)
Other submissions include:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972387 (rt.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972099 (npr.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971827 (uscourts.gov)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971787 (reuters.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971666 (politico.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971626 (cnn.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971622 (bbc.co.uk)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971526 (usatoday.com)
The ranking algorithm seems to be acting in strange ways. The top submission only shows up on the third page, which explains how I missed it.
I suspect there have been a couple of down votes with people just getting tired of the whole thing and wanting HN to be more about actual hacking. But mostly it's just been several hours now.