The H in Hacker News kind of gives it away. Not only tech/software, but politics usually considered off-topic. Social, health, environmental topics get discusse

The H in Hacker News kind of gives it away. Not only tech/software, but politics usually considered off-topic. Social, health, environmental topics get discussed here unless/until they veer into political arguments. Or conspiracy theories. I haven't lived in San Francisco in decades so I find those discussions uninteresting. Those can either show the demographics of the HN audience or the Bay Area oriented tech world, or both. Have never seen climate change denial on HN. When the COVID pandemic started HN hosted quite a few conversations about origins, severity, treatments, vaccine effectiveness, etc. That toned down over time but I still see posts almost daily about the possible origins of the virus, which probably interests some people but seems mostly irrelevant to me.