[trymas]

> This site is owned by ycombinator, who have a motivation to "not rock the boat"…

I’d argue that leadership of ycombinator is glad where this boat is sailing. Just look who are they inviting to advertised AI startup school at the bottom of this site.

[_DeadFred_]

The founder of Gumroad works inside DOGE now. One of the founders of AirBNB works inside DOGE now. Musk founded DOGE. Peter Thiel's Palantir is generating the information for ICE now.

https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-de...

David Sacks is the country's official Crypto czar now.

Chamath Palihapitiya brags that he's happy that his money can now buy access/influence /power. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-do...

[tomhow]

Some further context for anyone who reads this and thinks it's a factual or plausible summation of the factors that influence HN moderation:

- Gumroad is not a YC-funded company and its founder has no influence on YC or HN.

- Joe Gebbia is just one of more than ten thousand YC-backed founders and does not represent YC or influence HN.

- Of the other people named, none has any official role or influence at YC, and only one of them has ever had a formal role; a brief, minor role that ended over seven years ago. At least two of those named have had very public, bitterly hostile disputes with former presidents of YC and founders of notable YC companies.

- The only person with any role/influence at YC who publicly espouses any position on U.S. federal politics is Paul Graham, who tweets almost daily in staunch opposition to the current U.S. administration.

- HN moderators and YC management know that HN is only valuable if it is a place where people can find content and discussions that engage intellectual curiosity, and the surest way to destroy its value is to allow it to be captured by any political or ideological agenda.

[cultofmetatron]

it seems they are in cahoots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLhHuOPAXZQ&ab_channel=AdamM...

[tomhow]

Paul Graham is actively discouraging people from working for Palantir if it is building technology that helps the government violate the U.S. constitution:

https://x.com/paulg/status/1913338841068404903

[MichaelZuo]

I doubt they need to adjust the algorithim though to get rid of politics heavy posts specifically.

I’m pretty sure anything that gets more than twice as many comments than upvotes gets a huge downrank penalty, such that they would almost never hit the front page without moderator intervention.

[leereeves]

Yes, the admins have apparently manually added this post back to the /news feed, and it's currently ranked #59.