[derefr]

The two are, of course, motivated by the same plea: for HN to be only for discourse about technology/hacking/building/entrepreneur-ing itself, and to leave the discussion of the politics surrounding it to somewhere else.

I mean, we all want to discuss techpolitik sometimes... but generally not at the same time we're reading about new tech.

HN might be well-served doing something like MetaFilter's "blue/grey" split, but instead of just a content/meta division, a "hacks/sociopolitical-implications-of-hacks" division. HN is already a community, and it'd be nice if the account names and karma stayed synchronized.

[krapp]

The community has become more complex than the structure of Hacker News allows for.