It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

Post by neither_color » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

lsiebert wrote: post #66

mindcrime wrote: post #3

Funny, I'd say there's less, no, a LOT less, startup / business oriented discussion here than in the past. To me, the big thing that has emerged over the past few years has been a lot more "stuff" that can loosely be described as "politics / culture / public policy / society" or whatever. And if I could wave a magic wand and change anything, I'd ban that stuff. Because I agree, " I'd like to see conversations about s…

Hackers have long been interested in politics/culture/public policy. There has always been a strong anti-authoritarian ethos to hacker culture, one where personal privacy and bodily autonomy and the right to encryption were intrinsically at odds with corporate and government attempts to control and surveil, and I hope that doesn't go away.

Post by tarun_anand » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:25 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #29

Yes. Posts like "How to make $1 million with embarrassingly little work" are always going to make it to the HN frontpage. Which makes me wonder. Are we here to discuss technology? Or are we here to daydream how we get rich while sleeping? Also the "hackers" on HN are increasingly buying systems that are built to resist hacking and that have a target audience that can be described as "mom, dad and grandparents". Somet…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:31 AM UTC

paulryanrogers wrote: post #76

andrewtbham wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I could filter all politics out of hacker news that would be great. the comments especially are filled with "useful idiots" I have filtered a lot of politics on twitter by blocking prominent politicians and mute words.

> the comments especially are filled with "useful idiots" Does such a broad brush add to the discussion? Disagreement can be healthy. I'd say the varied political and philosophical perspectives of HN and Slashdot contributed a lot to changing my worldview. (Hopefully for the better, though we're all still learning.)

Post by jquery » Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

GlennS wrote: post #83

concinds wrote: post #61

I think as reddit continued to decline, more people here became interested in debating politics, societal stuff since there was no other "serious" place for it. I wish some of that stuff wasn't here, since it takes away from discussions in other threads. But (and I hope dang sees this) occasionally when HN "strays" away from tech it's absolutely brilliant. There's tons of discussion here on some health issues, diets,…

I agree with your overall thrust, but I certainly wouldn't have picked those examples. The diet threads just make me roll my eyes and think "Californians will believe anything"! (Sorry California, I know you don't all fit the stereotype.)