There was a story over the last few days about widespread successful man-in-the-middle attacks on SSL. this absolutely should be top of HN. It's on topic and very serious.

But it wasn't even on the front page. Yes, it was an NSA story - maybe that's why. Imagine if it was about Mafia black-hat hackers, to pick some other random group.

For links to the story, google "flying pig ssl"