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Yes it's indeed an obvious campaign. Against politics in general. From the guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebr
by huijzer 2y ago
Yes it's indeed an obvious campaign. Against politics in general. From the guidelines:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- freehorse 2y agoI would claim that these articles describe "some interesting new phenomenon" that is very relevant to a lot of us. I have colleagues right now cancelling their conference trips to the US either because under new rules they most probably cannot get a visa, or because they do not think it is worth the risk. I am pretty sure they are not the only ones in this kind of situation, and I am pretty sure that this kind of situation is quite relevant to the international audience of HN.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoSimilarly with the DOGE accessing federal servers there would have been no other community I trusted to understand the implications of physical access, the laws surrounding state data storage etc. "These discussions shouldn't be happening here" but where should they be happening? What other community has experience with Move fast and break stuff?
- Teever 2y agoIf politics is off-top why are some of the most popular and frequent topics things like: The CHIPS and Science Act, The SLS rocket, California Zoning Laws, Drug policy in the bay area, The Digital Markets Act in the EU? It seems to me that 'politics' is just used as a euphemism for 'taboo' and there are many unspoken taboos about what is talked and not talked about here.