dang's argument IMO more drives to the point that current HN policy/culture is insufficient. That's the "This time it's different" bit from his comment so I'm

dang's argument IMO more drives to the point that current HN policy/culture is insufficient. That's the "This time it's different" bit from his comment so I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying this time it's different except even more different? but the problem here is that there's very little repetition because Elon/DOGE keeps finding new ways to interfere with institutions. Right but that's not how 'repetition' works in the narrow context of HN. It's a fuzzy repetition, a repetition by reference not by value. If Elon Musk goosesteps 3 times today and 6 times tomorrow, that doesn't mean it makes sense to put 9 Musk goosestepping stories on the front page of HN. There'd be no HN left. Edit: I saw a mention of https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active in another thread. As I type, I count 7 ongoing, live threads about new US admin stuff and that's just of the 30 most active. It simply is not the case that this isn't being discussed on HN. It's being discussed on HN more than any other topic and, in fact, with way more than a typical, to use dang's term, Major Ongoing Topic gets discussed, at least concurrently.