[dang]

These things fluctuate. Political stuff has been more intense lately, for obvious reasons—we can't expect HN to be immune from macro trends in society at large.

[ayewo]

I've a recurrent thought regarding HN. How about allow the community to add labels/tags to submissions?

This feature alone would allow readers like me quickly to filter out topics that cause mental fatigue like politics, shiny new JS and co.

[grzm]

tptacek summarizes it succinctly elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786421