Comment by dang

HN has had many threads about, for example, array languages (APL/K/J/BQN) and stack languages (Forth et. al.), and countless languages even more obscure than those. HN is, in fact, in love with obscure programming languages. The fact that some languages are more popular than others doesn't mean we're biased in favor of them. If there's a bias, it's in favor of having threads about lesser-known ones. That doesn't mean every submission about them automatically makes the front page. (Your submissions in particular are getting affected by the software filters I mentioned in my reply above—but that's got nothing to do with which programming languages they're about.)

The stuff about dastardly censorship and financial shenanigans is, forgive me, a bit silly. HN is a big statistical cloud or, if you want to be more vivid about it, a big Rohrschach diagram. People can (and do) imagine any such monsters into it—all I can tell you is if anything so weird is happening, I'm completely unaware of it.

There have always been waves of internet drama about programming languages, going back to Usenet and no doubt earlier than that. Your comment makes me wonder if you might be getting swept along in the latest of those a little bit. If that's not the case, I'm happy to be wrong, but some of the tone of your comment reminds me of how certain language-enthusiast communities enjoy going to battle against each other nowadays. That's fine as a hobby but not on topic for HN.