I don't consider myself a hacker, so am not best placed to pass judgement, but... it seems like the true hacker ethos is not to swim with the stream, and yet here is pretty clear proof that hnews has formed its own stream. How many hackers here check the list and de-follow anything not in the long tail, fearing getting caught-up in groupthink?<p>I apologise in advance if this causes offence; stream or not, I still have tremendous respect for this very high calibre community.