Despite the name, HN has never been constrained to stories about IT, tech and startups.
It's the first sentence of the guidelines:
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
There's some good links to additional resources here. There is a "hide" option for the story if you don't want to see it. Personally I think if all we ever see is tech here we will lose sight of the bigger picture.
Despite the name, HN has never been constrained to stories about IT, tech and startups.
It's the first sentence of the guidelines:
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
There's some good links to additional resources here. There is a "hide" option for the story if you don't want to see it. Personally I think if all we ever see is tech here we will lose sight of the bigger picture.
HN has always had some amount of political content—not much, but some. For more information, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146184 and the links there.
Feel free to. You can easily ignore this one thread out of hundreds.