I thought Asahi Linux's sole developer didn't allow discussion of his project here? I remember there being quite a lot of fallout from that, what happened?
Probably just not wanting to deal with the unsavory side of the lurking userbase on HN or the poor, ill-informed discussion on sensitive/political topics? There are certain things HN is not good at talking about
There are multiple people I've seen express this in-desire towards HN
They can’t forbid discussion but they can try to make it so people visiting from HN can’t see the page; they aren’t the only ones, either, as the poster upthread mentioning jwz’s image redirect noted.
for a short time, he was monitoring the referral header and made his website display an offensive message if you clicked the link from HN.
HN's mods then edited links to his domain so they would emit the referral header, and he responded by implementing a browser exploit to detect if certain HN URLs were in your browser history.
In any case, I apologize for using the wrong wording.