What kind of discussion of SHA-3's security are we looking for here?

Do you want HN commenters to determine if SHA-3 would have been cryptographically secure with the proposed changes? I don't think most people here are qualified to answer that.

Or do you want to know people's feelings about the NSA/NIST connection? I think that's fairly covered ground.

This is an internet message board, not a dissertation, I just want to hear people's take on it. I dunno where you stand, but I learned stuff from the comments above.

I think the title editing is unacceptable.

The problem is that I don't know of a really open system like Hacker News that has the same content and community.

Same thing with reddit.

RSS is the right type of idea but you can't comment and it has other limitations compared to things like reddit and Hacker News.

Its not that the overloads are malicious, its just that those types of efforts are completely misguided.

I wonder if anyone knows of any open distributed unedited unmoderated systems that have features and communities like reddit or Hacker News. Ideally not even a single web site, but more like an open peer-to-peer distributed protocol with multiple clients.

The commenting system on Google Reader (despite being neither open or distributed) is the closest I've seen to a system that acts the way I'd like online. I can imagine a distributed version that would operate e.g. with each of us publishing a feed of things we read and commented on, to which friends could subscribe and publish their own comments on... there are some interesting scaling/complexity issues but it's not insoluble. Some combination of FOAF, RSS, and trackbacks conceptually.

I think the bigger problem is that the era of the semantic web/community standards like RSS, etc has largely passed us by. Participation now occurs on unmoderated sites like Twitter/Tumblr/etc, or on moderated community forums (and in a context where there's interesting content but I can't choose who specifically to follow, I prefer moderation).