[AnimalMuppet]

1. At least some politics is not out of scope. Some politics directly impacts the tech world - crypto policy, for example. Some other politics requires tech to work - surveillance, for example.

2. At least some of us have some interest in some political topics, even if they don't directly impact tech. (Just like some of us have some interest in some philosophical topics, or some cooking topics, or some music topics, or some art topics.) Since HN is a community, not just a web site, then HN discusses whatever enough people on HN find interesting (subject to moderators keeping the flames down).

3. I've never really understood the angst about articles that don't interest people. There's (I believe) 30 on the front page, and 30 more on the next. If there are, say, 5 on the front page that are topics you don't care about, then skip over them. It's really not hard to just drop your eyes down a line to the next one.