[mannanj]

Wondering when did political discourse become so prevalent in hacker news? I have now become accustomed to it being normal, but I remember the hacker news of 10 years was not like this.

Why has this become so normal? I miss the days where this was focused on technology and, well, hacking.

Can we stop engaging this political commentary please.

[phoghed]

Maybe something external changed and not HN? Can’t quite put my finger on what has changed in the last decade…

[Philpax]

You may not want to engage with politics, but politics will engage with you.

[BoxOfRain]

The hacker community has always had a strong political element to it, what else is the GNU GPL but a statement of political intent? Anything which deals with the allocation of power and resources is political.

[ThrowawayR2]

The old hacker community leaned anti-authoritarian and libertarian, if anything. The modern, everything-is-political "hackers" would be horrified by them.