Comment by rattlesnakedave
2 days ago
The multiple daily submissions about DOGE are getting a bit tiresome and are offtopic for HackerNews IMO. Unless they're doing something technically interesting I'm not sure why it has to be posted here. Judging by the fact that they make the front page daily I seem to be in the minority though, so whatever.
HN's in for some rough waters as far as typical de-facto (or community) editorial policy, since half of SV and even PG himself have declared for the fascists, one of whom (another SV darling, and also a fascist, that is) is the richest man on the planet, twice gave an entirely unambiguous nazi salute at the inauguration (in case anyone was still confused about what kind of people we're dealing with) and is now running roughshod over the government while every word that comes out of his mouth, somehow, (even the prepositions and articles!) is brain-meltingly stupid to anyone who has half a clue about anything in this realm.
Like, HN's in an awkward position.
On the front page there is 1 DOGE article. I didn't even find this on the front page. So at the very best this is 3% of the front page at any given time, when people aren't flagging the stories.
^Judging by the fact that they make the front page daily I seem to be in the minority though, so whatever.
I sure wish they'd slow down as well.
Like any other "algorithm" feed, if you dislike what is engaging the masses then switch to a chronological view and sip from the feed as you will.
ie: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
Yes, but it'd be nice if there were insights in the comments not present in the original text on these sorts of political articles. I have not seen that lately, and frankly "anything that good hackers would find interesting" has become so tortured as to become meaningless. People are missing the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" line that follows.
The real issue is that there are too many articles on the front page that everyone can participate in (news, 150 word anecdotes on AI, language/editor wars, ...). If there is too much pent up demand for those topics, it should just be moved to a certain day of the week. I think you could more or less violently suppress it while having very limited collateral damage on actual technical discussions. And by allowing politics to remain on the front page for many days, you basically slowly change the composition of the community to people who want to debate politics all the time, which is explicitly not the intent of HN. I'm probably violating the guidelines by complaining instead of silently flagging the article, but hoping this inspires other people to start flagging as well.
I have mixed feelings. It's a potentially great manifestation of zero-trust and insider risks, and why you should collect less data to begin with. Or maybe not, idk. Could see interesting discussions in theory, but I'm not sure I have so far.
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-and-trump
The actions by DOGE and the Trump administration are extremely relevant in a VC-hosted forum.
It's a historic tech-related government coup, which I'd think is of great interest to "Hackers". It's very rare that a bunch of tech whiz-kids are so directly embedded in current events. For better or worse, Musk and his minions are very much at the forefront of tech related news for the forseeable future.
https://lobste.rs seems to still have technical focus. The issue I have with the comments is that a lot of them don't go into technical issues per se, and are not based on first hand information. What would be useful is if somebody in the government could post specifics about their abuses.
What's getting tiresome is the insane shit DOGE is pulling every day, not the submissions
It's not their fault for doing it, it's your fault for pointing it out.
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