Comment by defrost
1 year ago
That point comes to HN at least once an hour since the start of 2025.
For a site primarily intended to be about computer tech, the funding and business of tech startups, with explicit guidelines suggesting to reject US politics there are still large numbers of active threads on US politics, DOGE, Musk, et al daily.
.. and that's after 9x decimation.
So, throttled back to allow room for other submissions is largely what happens here, "hidden" is a tad hyperbolic.
In fairness, the US tech industry made it extremely hard to discuss them without discussing politics too, since they’re getting themselves more and more involved in policy.
Active threads in the past seven days re: just DOGE in title: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
many with more than 100 points, some with > 1000 points and >1000 comments.
[flagged] just pushes them off of the front page, they're still highly active and [showdead] can show you the comments being killed - largely they're hyper-partisan (either side), full nazi, crazy kill the rich, etc. Not many polite reasoned comments being killed regardless of stance.
I'm Australian BTW - it's all a sideshow to me, aside from the crazy tariffs and nuclear threat parts, etc.
> it's all a sideshow to me, aside from the crazy tariffs and nuclear threat parts, etc.
So it’s all a sideshow to you, apart from the threats to your life and way of living? Those seem kind of important to wave off.
I’m also not American, but I have no illusions that what happens there won’t have consequences for the rest of the world.
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