Notice the FIRST off topic description - stories on politics. here are the Hacker News Guidlines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting

Notice the FIRST off topic description - stories on politics. here are the Hacker News Guidlines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.