Comment by pachorizons
17 hours ago
Remember as you read more and more news like this that many of the owners of Y Combinator supported this.
17 hours ago
Remember as you read more and more news like this that many of the owners of Y Combinator supported this.
The only YC figure who espouses any position on U.S. federal politics is Paul Graham, who loudly campaigns against the current administration almost every day on Twitter.
That's such a weirdly blatant lie.
Jared Friedman endorsing DOGE
https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853
Garry Tan hanging with a DOGE flunky
https://x.com/jgebbia/status/1907181994695332295
Hi Tom.
You're burning your credibility here fast as the new moderator. dang derived his respect as an admin from not getting into fights in the threads. It additonaly tarnishes your credibility as you're doing this in defense of your employer. You look like a rage-poster who has the same response copied and ready to go from thread to thread.
Please take a moment to step back and examine if this is the image you want to be projecting as the official representative of YC and HN.
Alternatively, hi tom, you're a human being with opinions and you're allowed to discuss whatever you like on this site just like anyone else.
i think dang is successful at moderation in part because he does have a reputation and track record of being fair and unbiased in his moderation, and i do agree showing bias in conversations can make people question moderation decisions more, but i'm not sure tom is showing bias by including information relevant to people he knows, and i think he can both discuss however he likes while also being transparent and genuine in unbiased moderation
tom has and does stay out of debates and in-depth conversations around HN related stuff. he's simply dropping some information in to dispel disinformation, which i think is reasonable
Their silence now is cowardly.
In before this thread is also flagged for being "political".
The only moderator action taken on this submission was to prevent it from being downweighted by community flags – 5 hours ago.
There's a post that the FBI arrested a judge who helped an illegal immigrant avoid capture during a court proceeding.
900+ upvotes
- it has nothing to do with tech
- it's about a hot button political issue
- it helps the Republican cause.
Not flagged
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This entire thread is worthless social media junk food.
Who, specifically, are you referring to; and what have they done or said to make you believe that they support this?
Well, the good news is that there's a very convenient link at the bottom of the page here on HN for the AI startup school [1] which is host to a bunch of people that you should recognize.
[1] https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus
Not an answer to my question.
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Wealthy people who could be coined liberal-tarians or just your average tech bro political grab bag largely backed Trump out of financial interest and who, imo, deluded themselves that the administration would be unsuccessful at "the bad stuff" much like his 2016 run.
No amount of shouting from the rooftops that this time was actually different convinced anyone. I can't really blame us collectively, we resoundingly voted for this— it's as much of a mandate you're likely to ever get in the US and we're in the find out stage of fucking around.
Looking back on old social media posts the theme is that everyone, supporters and not, were high on copium that Trump would do <list of things I like | aren't so bad> and the <list of truly terrible things> was just obviously crazy and wouldn't actually happen or were a joke.
Who specifically was the question.
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