“Politics” has always been difficult to define for exclusion on HN but recent developments make a lot of US politics fair game, IMO. DOGE, Musk, etc etc has a

“Politics” has always been difficult to define for exclusion on HN but recent developments make a lot of US politics fair game, IMO. DOGE, Musk, etc etc has a very strong tech angle. They’re all folks from tech startups entering the government and interacting with legacy codebases (I’ve already read interesting accounts of where COBOL might be tripping them up!) They have a stated intent of using AI to improve government efficiency. Pretty much all of this is relevant for discussion here. I’m the opposite of you here, I’m very frustrated by how much “political” discussion is getting flagged. HN users have very relevant perspectives to stories that I don’t see reflected elsewhere, to hide them is a loss.