I realize addressing such a downvoted comment is frowned upon here, but since there might be others who believe your paranoid attitude is credible, I would just point out that the chances of the USG not already knowing about Hacker News are zero.<p>If you really believe that merely sending your IP and a referer from Hacker News to a public .gov site will get you put on a terror watchlist (somehow), <i>why are you not hiding your IP from Hacker News itself?</i>