It's hard to get a read on the politics of the "typical" HNer. As people are always quick to point out, HN is not a single person, but a group of people, each o

It's hard to get a read on the politics of the "typical" HNer. As people are always quick to point out, HN is not a single person, but a group of people, each of whom may have ideosyncratic positions. All the same, people are not special snowflakes, and in the general population you can normally say that X will be associated with Y. In my experience, HN seems very: - Liberal/socialist on economic politics. - Liberal on privacy/digital freedom. - Conservative/leaning regressive on gender politics. - Conservative on climate change. I model the "typical" HNer as a young white male techie, and this set of positions does not seem particularly surprising in that context.