Yes, there is, and it's not as innocent as many commenters here seem to believe. Have a look at my favorites [0], and you can see recent popular stories which

Yes, there is, and it's not as innocent as many commenters here seem to believe. Have a look at my favorites [0], and you can see recent popular stories which I noticed were flagged (some were unflagged, some were just wiped off the page without being marked as flagged). A lot of those stories are supremely relevant to HN's supposed remit; from good sources and generating high quality discussion... There are some definite themes there - Musk, DOGE, etc. And this thread will be flagged too, if people start getting into the discussion. Discussing HN censorship is not "generally" allowed as its own post, ie, [1, 2 etc]. This helps explain why so many people think there isn't censorship here at all - people don't see the people complaining, and don't see the flagged/disappeared posts, so they don't think it's happening. It's very easy for a few users to flag any story they choose, which means that it's very easy for mods to blame users for the stories getting censored - "the community chooses, not us". Discussing how that works is not up for debate though, and posts about HN's flagging system are removed whenever they come up. While this is going on a long time here for certain topics, ie, US torturers [3], it has ramped up wildly here in the last few months. When you look at Garry Tan or Paul Graham's recent Twitter feeds, and read the weird support for the DOGE team, it's hard to imagine that there isn't top-down suppression of the stuff you'll see in [0] (which is just a list of stories I've personally noticed being censored - there's certainly far more). 0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=mandmandam https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=mandmandam 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43054368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43054368 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781604 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576569