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Is hacker news a political news site?

by shanghaikid 6y ago

pixxel 6y ago
Sadly yes.
- baybal2 6y ago
  Why sadly? Political education is very important.
  - pixxel 6y ago
    I’m here for tech news and respite from politics. Can’t scan titles without seeing politics.
  - chomp 6y ago
    There’s a lot of websites on the internet that are happy to discuss politics. This one was created to have a narrow focus. From the guidelines: “ 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.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - non-entity 6y ago
      For better or worse, that has been mostly overridden by: > 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. Through the community (made up of at least in great part, hackers) deciding that politics is interesting.
    - threatofrain 6y ago
      This is a privately owned property by an early-stage investment firm. Either it is a property of whim or it is a property of business, or perhaps a combination thereof. Also, politics is the negotiation of power. I'm not sure why people wouldn't want to discuss that, especially given the potency of tech to insert itself into democratic politics. People who aren't in tech are certainly using tech to discuss the intersection between tech in politics.
  - threatofrain 6y ago
    Not everyone lives in a democracy where the tiny individual is to be concerned with national healthcare and defense. Some people just want to discuss state solutions for Flutter. Political discussion is very democratic-centric!
    - baybal2 6y ago
      These times are very political. Best to put it — "Do you want Flutter, or do you want to see your another day in a civil state?" What is more important, your job/hobby, or being able to live/eat/breathe tomorrow?
john-shaffer 6y ago
Political submissions tend to get flagged and removed. It's partly a function of how hostile the comments are. HN doesn't want flame wars. If a submission provokes polite, thoughtful discussion, it's more likely to stay up even if the article is highly political.

Is hacker news a political news site?

pixxel 6y ago

Sadly yes.

baybal2 6y ago
Why sadly? Political education is very important.
- pixxel 6y ago
  I’m here for tech news and respite from politics. Can’t scan titles without seeing politics.
- chomp 6y ago
  There’s a lot of websites on the internet that are happy to discuss politics. This one was created to have a narrow focus. From the guidelines: “ 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.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - non-entity 6y ago
    For better or worse, that has been mostly overridden by: > 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. Through the community (made up of at least in great part, hackers) deciding that politics is interesting.
  - threatofrain 6y ago
    This is a privately owned property by an early-stage investment firm. Either it is a property of whim or it is a property of business, or perhaps a combination thereof. Also, politics is the negotiation of power. I'm not sure why people wouldn't want to discuss that, especially given the potency of tech to insert itself into democratic politics. People who aren't in tech are certainly using tech to discuss the intersection between tech in politics.
- threatofrain 6y ago
  Not everyone lives in a democracy where the tiny individual is to be concerned with national healthcare and defense. Some people just want to discuss state solutions for Flutter. Political discussion is very democratic-centric!
  - baybal2 6y ago
    These times are very political. Best to put it — "Do you want Flutter, or do you want to see your another day in a civil state?" What is more important, your job/hobby, or being able to live/eat/breathe tomorrow?

john-shaffer 6y ago

Political submissions tend to get flagged and removed. It's partly a function of how hostile the comments are. HN doesn't want flame wars. If a submission provokes polite, thoughtful discussion, it's more likely to stay up even if the article is highly political.