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There has never been such a thing as a politically neutral HN. It's just that there wasn't until recently a userbase to counteract the liberal tech groupthink.

• disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  That's more recent, to be honest. When I started reading HN, it was very very libertarian (but mostly non-political). As it's grown bigger, it's started to reflect the demographics of software/data/professional people, with a bias towards the West Coast of the US. That's presumably what you mean by the liberal tech groupthink (note that disliking Trump does not make one a liberal, which is a mistake a lot of conservatives have made over the past four years).
  • illiilliiililil 6y ago
    >That's more recent, to be honest. When I started reading HN, it was very very libertarian (but mostly non-political). Interesting. I came here a bit late.
  • ryathal 6y ago
    How long ago was the dominant libertarian scene? I've been reading for about 7 years and it's definitely been heavy liberal with the occasional libertarian belief even back then. Since 2016 it's been full throated liberalism though.
    • disgruntledphd2 6y ago
      2011 is when I started lurking here. i originally had disgruntledphd, but lost my password and there was no way to recover it (apparently you could contact paul graham, but I didn't know that) so I became disgruntledphd2.