>Imo, the bigger question is why Hungary, Poland, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus (all countries part of the recent EU Spyware Scandal) [1] continue to allow their Interior Ministries to attack the phones of both domestic and foreign opponents, and are abusing "Spyware for political gain" [2].
It's also a national security issue given that Israel may be piggybacking on the spying.
>instead i'm proposing that building _this_ site becomes an community effort, with open feature discussions and people committing code to the HN code base.
Lamer News is similar to HN and community driven, so if you have energy to spare that's as good a place as any to put it. If pg wanted HN to evolve, it would evolve. Most people are happy with it as-is, tech-wise.
It's also a national security issue given that Israel may be piggybacking on the spying.