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0 pointscoolgeek4y ago0 comments

As a long-time HNer, I concur with dang.

This is a tech/business site operated by a startup incubator. The things in the first category (entrepreneurship, new/popular technologies, prominent persons) come with the territory. They are the subjects that the primary audience wants (and has historically wanted) to discuss and keep apprised of.

What I find frustrating is the influx of people who come to a tech/business site with the primary goal of arguing politics. By my recollection, this started to get bad five(ish) years ago, and got out of control with the onset of the pandemic.

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dang4y ago

Arguments about HN getting too political go back basically to the start of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

Perceptions about this get distorted by hindsight bias a lot, or whatever the bias is that makes it feel like things are always getting worse. From my perspective the mix is not so different than it used to be, and most of the differences have to do with the ocean we're all swimming in (i.e. the world at large) rather than HN itself.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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