[joebiden2]

No, it's not a bot ring. I assume you think that because I posted links to stackexchange quite a few times the last few months. Instead, I just skim over stackexchange.com as part of my feed and when there's something what I assume HN interests, I post it here.

I don't care much about Karma. I posted this specific topic since I find it kind of hilarious that police should now lawfully be able to do something they are almost surely not able to do. And I enjoy discussions to such topics here on HN, because most of the time the viewpoints mentioned here are at least of the same quality of the answers on stackexchange.

[qup]

It seemed ridiculous to me that it could make the top of HN. It was a question with no discussion, yet.

If it had a discussion or even a good answer, it would have made perfect sense.

I assumed the goal would be stack overflow karma, as that's actually valuable.

[godelski]

It rose to the top because of the question, the link about France, and because new posts get higher weights. It is at 79pts and 59 comments currently and about to fall off the front page. But also on the front page is a post with 6pts and 1 comment (1hr old), 17 points and 2 comments (2 hrs), 7pts and 2 comments (30 minutes). and a few more. Just a slow Saturday.

[throwawayadvsec]

Or maybe it's the perfect place to discuss this kind of topics.

An Ask HN with the same kind of question could have reached the front page.