alt Hacker NewsThat point comes to HN at least once an hour since the start of 2025.
For a site primarily intended to be about computer tech, the funding and business of tech startups, with explicit guidelines suggesting to reject US politics there are still large numbers of active threads on US politics, DOGE, Musk, et al daily.
.. and that's after 9x decimation.
So, throttled back to allow room for other submissions is largely what happens here, "hidden" is a tad hyperbolic.
In fairness, the US tech industry made it extremely hard to discuss them without discussing politics too, since they’re getting themselves more and more involved in policy.