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> I'm 44 and I remember back when politics was more or less left out of hacker news altogether. Politics is still more or less left out of hacker news. How man

• zdragnar 3y ago
  I've flagged a few myself. More frequently than posts, though, are politically charged comments. There's not a lot of thoughtful debate around them, mostly just people repeating the same tired points back and forth.
  • foldr 3y ago
    That’s what it feels like if you’re not interested in politics. A lot of the threads on programming also consist of people repeatedly making the same points back and forth (see e.g. about 5000 threads on Go and generics). Most discussions are like this, really. New ideas don’t come along very often.