alt Hacker NewsThere are tens of thousands of people here, across a wide variety of political opinions.
Judging by your profile, you’re an overtly politics-focused person that’s been reading HN for 7 months.
I wouldn’t ascribe broad political opinions to HN, other than the general cultural dislike of political discussion, in the most broad sense.
There is no non-politics.
Crypto is a political project to weaken the state in favor of markets.
AI is a political project to replace labor with pure capital - with the two major geopolitical players doing it for different reasons.
Freedom of expression and its limits is political.
Regulation and its pros and cons is political.
Markets and their consequences and implications are political.
Technology and its interplay with society is political.
Everything HN talks about is politics, just often with a lack of self-reflection required to recognize so.
What you consider non-political is just a reflection of your own personal politics.
The insistence people stop talking about politics is functionally equivalent to censorship of specific types of politics while leaving others unexamined.