> less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery

Pretty sure this is a feature not a bug. Most people aren’t here for political topics.

In a corrupt and authoritarian country, it is common to have officials busted on "corruption" or "embezzlement" charges. And yet most people know they are actually not jailed for the crimes they got charged for, because there are more than enough people to fill all the prisons for breaking the exact same laws they are accused of breaking. They knew the only reason these people got jailed is because they lost some kind of power struggle within the administration, and corruption is just a convenient lie those who prevailed tell you to keep you comfortable.

You never see the "no politics please thk u" crowd when it is about protests in Iran, Chinese oppression in Hong Kong, Russian aggression on Europe or hell, when people were literally running a political campaign the EU to stop killing games. You only see people flagging political submissions when it is a particular kind of politics - just like you only see corrupt officials jailed when they are a certain kind of officials.

Connect the dots, make your own conclusions.

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HumblyTossed 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They should be aware of how tech is being used in political games though...

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jprd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is always going to be an intersection between tech and politics. This convo is no different than talking about Section 230, H1B visas or using vision models to sexualize people or distort the truth.

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ajb an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Comments like this remind me of those guys who wouldn't stop working, in the twin towers. Just didn't want to get out of their zone.

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taurath 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It gets down to the definition of political which is basically anything that might have a human cost, including to the people here. I have many coworkers having to upend their lives, some can’t currently leave the country. This is not worthy of discussion, but an esoteric library update is. Paul Graham posts are not political topics for some reason, but H1B people is.

Technology, technology leaders, and technology companies are literally driving politics, buying elections, driving the whole US economy.

Saying what “political” topics are IS political - and it’s decidedly a right wing position. Only those with the powers protecting them get to avoid politics.

	▲	golem14 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There is a fun German word capturing this: “Deutungshohheit”

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paganel an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When the computer code many of us are working on is directly shaping that politics I think that we should talk about it and stop hiding behind the bush.

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andy99 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yeah so find a forum that’s for discussing that and discuss it there. Don’t try and force people who are discussing something else to talk about politics with you. Do you also randomly go onto GitHub issues and start talking politics because the people who are talking about repo bugs are “hiding behind a bush” and should talk about the political things you think are important instead?

	▲	paganel 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't comment on GitHub issues. I think that forums like this one should discuss politics as affected by computer code seeing as HN is one of the main (for lack of a better word) computer programmers' forums based/located in/with a focus on SV, it's not some random computer forum which specializes in some random computer programming issue. Hacker News is not lambda-the-ultimate.org, seeing them as similar is part of that hiding behind the bush, people commenting on here actually work at companies like Palantir, Alphabet, Meta and the like, companies whose recent involvement in politics affects us all, at a worldwide level. Also see this recent FT article [1] in connection with how the leaders of those companies have gotten a lot reacher since Trump ascended to power for a second time. > Tech titans lined up for Trump’s second inauguration. Now they’re even richer > Silicon Valley bosses who lined up behind the US president for his inauguration have fared well under his administration [1] https://archive.ph/https://www.ft.com/content/674b700e-765d-...

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therobots927 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep. They’re here to bury their head in the sand and keep up to date with the latest tech trends like the good little worker bees they are.

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watty 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think that's fair. I follow politics closely but prefer HN to stay technical. It shouldn't be offensive.

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filoeleven an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The "hide" link is right next to the "flag" link. Using flag instead of hide puts more strain on the mods, and is not the right thing to do for "this topic doesn't apply to my interests."

	▲	TeMPOraL 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But it is the right thing to do for "this topic violates HN guidelines both in letter and in spirit, as well as predictably causing low-quality discussion threads".

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