You could also call it "all but the single most important issue facing the technology and computing industries today," but your proposal is more concise.

Isn't that just news.ycombinator.com?

Nope, I see NSA news every other day on HN and it is getting rather annoying

Supposedly there is a filter already on HN for NSA articles, each vote only counts as 1/3 of a vote if the title contains the string "nsa", severely penalizing those articles.

If that's true, I understand why I don't understand the HN sort order.

I think that's the joke. :)