[Locke1689]

Right -- but there's a lot of important stuff that isn't Hacker News. Just because it affects people doesn't make it Hacker News and just because it involves the Internet definitely doesn't make it Hacker News.

[babeKnuth]

see my reply above for hopeful clarification on how wikileaks is different from your typical "important stuff".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828531