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now days hacker news is often filled non-tech related discussion, specially anything relate to China or politics; come on guys, this is Hacker news, not politic

• dang 7y ago
  This isn't so different from how HN has always been. Many topics have political overlap. That's inevitably the case on a site that's dedicated to intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). This is a challenge for moderation, but the approach we take has been stable for a long time. I've written about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844, and there's lots more explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20political%20overlap&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for anyone who wants it. Concerns about HN getting more/too political go back almost as far as the site itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869. There's no systemic breach, just topical fluctuation. How we handle major ongoing stories (like this crisis) is mostly by downweighting routine follow-ups, so that just the stories with significant new information get primary coverage: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20major%20ongoing%20significant%20new&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's the intention, at least. Of course there are always exceptions for submissions that have intellectually curious angles, like the detective aspect in the OP here.
• ronsor 7y ago
  Statistics is a science
• exolymph 7y ago
  Today you learn: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html