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Yes, Dang has been manually unflagging stories recently so HN has become a very different place in the last half year or so.

by nailer 1y ago

array_key_first 1y ago
These are unprecedented times and we cannot afford willful ignorance.
convolvatron 1y ago
to be fair Dang can't win here. should HN devolve into a never ending shouting match between people who either aren't listening or aren't saying anything meaningful? if HN shuts down a story they are accused of stifling discourse and picking sides (apparently _both_ sides to hear it) and the truth is this is a hugely important series of events for everyone, tech included, regardless of 'side'. I think the strategy of letting one of these simmer on the back burner every day is the best HN is going to be able to do. but don't dig into the staff, I'm sure they're not enjoying any of this.
fzeroracer 1y ago
HN has always had a trend of political posts. The James Damore story here got massive over claims of his freedom of speech being violated. The 'Twitter Files' which was a whole lot of nothing also blew up. Dang can't really win here as someone else mentioned because we're in unprecedented times. Tech CEOs are going full mask off, like how the Salesforce CEO is asking for the government to send in troops to SF [1] or YC openly courting people deeply tied to the admin. So now you have people noting the hypocrisy of some users being tired of politics conveniently as it ramps up more and more into our personal lives and as tech becomes the government. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/salesforce-ceo-says-national-guard-should-patrol-san-francisco-stunning-his-own-pr-team/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/salesforce-ceo-says-nation...
- nailer 1y ago
  Downtown SF has been bad since Covid, as anyone that’s been there before and after can attest. Salesforce has a building in downtown SF. Wanting to have it be something close to pre 2020 levels of crime is very much precedented.
  - fzeroracer 1y ago
    You could spend approximately two minutes looking up how that's going in Chicago and see how well it works.
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    - nailer 1y ago
      As I already mentioned you could just ask people that live in SF: https://x.com/andercot/status/1977098477399327009?s=46 https://x.com/andercot/status/1977098477399327009?s=46

Yes, Dang has been manually unflagging stories recently so HN has become a very different place in the last half year or so.

by nailer 1y ago

Yes, Dang has been manually unflagging stories recently so HN has become a very different place in the last half year or so.

array_key_first 1y ago

These are unprecedented times and we cannot afford willful ignorance.

convolvatron 1y ago

to be fair Dang can't win here. should HN devolve into a never ending shouting match between people who either aren't listening or aren't saying anything meaningful? if HN shuts down a story they are accused of stifling discourse and picking sides (apparently _both_ sides to hear it) and the truth is this is a hugely important series of events for everyone, tech included, regardless of 'side'. I think the strategy of letting one of these simmer on the back burner every day is the best HN is going to be able to do. but don't dig into the staff, I'm sure they're not enjoying any of this.

fzeroracer 1y ago

HN has always had a trend of political posts. The James Damore story here got massive over claims of his freedom of speech being violated. The 'Twitter Files' which was a whole lot of nothing also blew up. Dang can't really win here as someone else mentioned because we're in unprecedented times. Tech CEOs are going full mask off, like how the Salesforce CEO is asking for the government to send in troops to SF [1] or YC openly courting people deeply tied to the admin. So now you have people noting the hypocrisy of some users being tired of politics conveniently as it ramps up more and more into our personal lives and as tech becomes the government. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/salesforce-ceo-says-national-guard-should-patrol-san-francisco-stunning-his-own-pr-team/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/salesforce-ceo-says-nation...

nailer 1y ago
Downtown SF has been bad since Covid, as anyone that’s been there before and after can attest. Salesforce has a building in downtown SF. Wanting to have it be something close to pre 2020 levels of crime is very much precedented.
- fzeroracer 1y ago
  You could spend approximately two minutes looking up how that's going in Chicago and see how well it works.
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  - nailer 1y ago
    As I already mentioned you could just ask people that live in SF: https://x.com/andercot/status/1977098477399327009?s=46 https://x.com/andercot/status/1977098477399327009?s=46