Some of it is because of redundancy (ie, multiple posts on the same topic), but a lot of it is an immediate reaction to anything negative about Elon Musk. This

Some of it is because of redundancy (ie, multiple posts on the same topic), but a lot of it is an immediate reaction to anything negative about Elon Musk. This means that posts that can't overcome that reaction with vouches or a mod stepping in end up dying quickly. There's a few people that will argue that 'there's nothing to really do or discuss about it, ergo it should be flagged' but plenty of other topics along those same lines reach the front page. Usually stuff along the line of other culture war topics. For example of stuff flagged on reaction, this post [1] (AI Startup School with Elon Musk, by ycombinator) was flagged for a long period of time and only recently got out of being flag-killed. A better example is this post by Krebs [2] which went deep into the history of one of the highlighted members of DOGE, their connection to cybercrime and more despite being well researched. I think the way to describe it is that tech is going through the same political fracturing and reckoning as the rest of society. As hard as tech has tried to put on the facade of being apolitical, when you've got ycombinator inviting Elon Musk for talks or pg talking about the dangers of woke it was inevitable for HN to become more and more political over time. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973989 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979187