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Thank goodness somebody flagged this. All this commentary on the collapse of our democracy was really harshing my mellow.
by justin66 1y ago
Thank goodness somebody flagged this. All this commentary on the collapse of our democracy was really harshing my mellow.
- rchaud 1y agoplus it might divert eyeballs from all the truly critical news about which AI startup got how much in funding to do something 100 other companies are doing.
- ta1243 1y agoThis is literally a news site for startup funding
- rchaud 1y agoIf that were the case there would never be any topics on HN about housing, healthcare, education, elections, war or tariffs, yet the "/best" page says otherwise.
- mring33621 1y agoyou do understand that start-ups are a thing for liberal, democratic, capitalist, free-market folks? That's not the context that we are in politically or socially right now.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoThis is a discussion forum for intellectual curiosity operated from the investment exhaust of a capital market participant. A recent, adjacent analogy is Jeff Lawson taking his Twilio winnings to buy and operate The Onion. The economic mechanizations are usually underpinnings to something more valuable. HN would still be valuable if YC closed up shop tomorrow (and I personally argue, of greater value than the accelerator; value is subjective of course, so opinions will differ on this). Stay curious. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=dang%20intellectual%20curiosity&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- solid_fuel 1y agoThe collapse of a representative democracy into a corrupt dictatorship similar to Russia should interest anyone who intends to invest money into this economy. Why would you invest millions and years of your life into building a company if the administration can just decide to take your intellectual property [0] because you made them angry? Why would you spend effort developing hardware and a domestic manufacturing process if the administration can just declare 100% tariffs on your critical components? Especially when your competitors can just pass off a little bribe and get special treatment: [1] > Cook and Apple aren't walking away empty-handed. Companies that "are building in the United States," like Apple, won't be subject to a forthcoming 100% tariff on imports of semiconductors and chips, Trump said. There is a reason you don't see world-changing companies arise from states with so much corruption. A free market requires neutral governance - no special treatment or favorites. With this new administration, the US market is looking much more skewed than in the past few decades, and that will have severe consequences for domestic innovation and research. [0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/harvard-patents-targeted-by-trump-administration-2025-08-08/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/harvard-patents-tar... [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-donald-trump-gift-apple-tariffs-2025-8?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-donald-trump-gift-a...
- ta1243 1y agoIt certainly should, however large numbers of people in the technical community are welcoming it with glee. This isn't even reactive to the mob boss, this has been coming for years. https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-net...
- solid_fuel 1y agoYeah, a lot of these guys are convinced that they will get to be one of the oligarchs.
- tomhow 1y agoNo it's not, it's a site for "anything that good hackers would find interesting".
- LexiMax 1y agoI have been promoting the use of the active front page to my tech-minded friends and acquaintances that use this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active
- morkalork 1y agoBeen using it ever since another user mentioned it, the difference has been stark.
- duxup 1y agoOh very nice thank you.
- udkl 1y agoCan someone explain what 'active' stories are? It isn't described in the FAQ
- Tadpole9181 1y agoIIRC ranked on interactions instead of score, includes flagged.
- 93po 1y agoor just use https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/
- CaRDiaK 1y agohttps://hcker.news/ https://hcker.news/ is another good one.
- insane_dreamer 1y agoI have this as my bookmark. Haven't visited the front page for months.
- thiht 1y agoIsn’t /active the real front page?
- Tadpole9181 1y agoOut of curiosity, is there a way we can request a mod to manually unflag this? I see comments in this thread have been killed, so I'm not sure why this is still flagged 3 hours later when it seems clearly relevant to HN? A military deploying to the capital of the richest country on earth where most tech giants reside is important for tech.
- Jtsummers 1y agoEmail them via the contact link at the bottom of the page. They're pretty responsive, though for political topics they're reluctant to unflag them because the discussions are often fruitless (just a bunch of people shouting at each other).
- tastyface 1y agoThey will happily unflag tech-irrelevant fulff such as an article about Hulk Hogan dying. Whereas extensively researched political articles like this one? Mum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816165
- ath3nd 1y agoIt's flagged for the same reason that posts describing the genocide Israel is doing in Palestine get flagged: the absolute intolerance of those in power to any dissenting opinions.
- camgunz 1y agoI spend a fair amount of time flagging stuff in those threads that's outright anti-Semitic or propaganda, and if that goes on too long I just flag the whole post and move on. It's one thing to have an in-depth discussion about colonialism, the history of the surrounding Arab states and early Zionism, ongoing Israeli politics, the Jewish diaspora, etc. It's quite another to engage in a fruitless moral oneupsmanship (neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis will wake up suddenly and say "Oh, HN has decided we're to blame; I guess we'll call the whole thing off"), or to reckon not at all with the fact that the destruction of Israel (through boycott, invasion, or minority democratic status) leads to the murder of horrifying numbers of Israeli Jews. As with pretty much all war I'm disgusted by what Israel is doing. I don't see that as a reason to drum up anti-semitism or casually imply the destruction of Israel and the attendant murder of millions of people would be a net good. So, that's why I flag that stuff. I also think it's pretty absurd to think that HN censors opinions. I and others constantly criticize SV bigwigs like Marc Andreessen (can somebody ask ChatGPT how many goddamn 'e's are in his name, Jesus Christ) and Paul Graham, lots of tech-skeptic stuff gets posted here and makes it to the front page.
- PieTime 1y agoMeanwhile palantir is training AI models that assassinate journalist. Ethics are a major part of tech, we can make decisions that distribute billions in relief or execute millions.