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I love how Hacker News moderators will let international political news stay on the site. But never any US political news stay on. Unless it serves the tech ind

by DonnyV 2y ago

I love how Hacker News moderators will let international political news stay on the site. But never any US political news stay on. Unless it serves the tech industry.

dang 2y ago
A few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 was the largest thread in HN's history. More than twice the size of the previous largest thread, in fact.
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  OT: how can one search HN by number of comments? Algolia sorts by date or votes, but not comments. The linked thread is also very highly ratioed, with a 5.36:1 comments:votes ratio, which is also pretty high on the flamewar / spiciness scale. (I'll have to check my own front-page archive for any higher comment:vote ratios.) The highest voted post remains Stephen Hawking's obituary: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136> Searching "comments>3000" provides the following list of 8 submissions, which I've sorted and reformatted: 9282 comments 1796 points 1 month ago Trump wins presidency for second time 4576 comments 3089 points 4 years ago Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. 3859 comments 4489 points 5 months ago CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops 3676 comments 1058 points 4 years ago Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler 3676 comments 2498 points 3 years ago Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources 3463 comments 1765 points 2 years ago Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade 3078 comments 2747 points 3 years ago Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private 3065 comments 1183 points 4 years ago YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud Difference in ratios of the first and second items is notable.

by DonnyV 2y ago

I love how Hacker News moderators will let international political news stay on the site. But never any US political news stay on. Unless it serves the tech industry.

dang 2y ago

A few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 was the largest thread in HN's history. More than twice the size of the previous largest thread, in fact.

dredmorbius 2y ago
OT: how can one search HN by number of comments? Algolia sorts by date or votes, but not comments. The linked thread is also very highly ratioed, with a 5.36:1 comments:votes ratio, which is also pretty high on the flamewar / spiciness scale. (I'll have to check my own front-page archive for any higher comment:vote ratios.) The highest voted post remains Stephen Hawking's obituary: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136> Searching "comments>3000" provides the following list of 8 submissions, which I've sorted and reformatted: 9282 comments 1796 points 1 month ago Trump wins presidency for second time 4576 comments 3089 points 4 years ago Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. 3859 comments 4489 points 5 months ago CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops 3676 comments 1058 points 4 years ago Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler 3676 comments 2498 points 3 years ago Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources 3463 comments 1765 points 2 years ago Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade 3078 comments 2747 points 3 years ago Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private 3065 comments 1183 points 4 years ago YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud Difference in ratios of the first and second items is notable.