Probably the same reason it's making the rounds on Facebook at the moment. All else equal, this kind of website tends towards resharing/retweeting/upvoting iden

Probably the same reason it's making the rounds on Facebook at the moment. All else equal, this kind of website tends towards resharing/retweeting/upvoting identitiarian, political, and outrage type stories. The management does make an admirable effort to nudge it away from that, so a somewhat lower percentage of HN stories are in that category, but it's still quite a lot of them. (Also, it hits the "things of concern to affluent white American urbanites living in the U.S.'s somewhat dysfunctional cities" category, which is somewhat overrepresented here.)