Politics on Hacker News

The cluster centers on complaints about political content being posted on Hacker News, including calls to flag such submissions as fake news or toxic, and debates over community bias, echo chambers, and polarization.

➡️ Stable 0.6x Politics & Society
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Keywords

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Sample Comments

tontonius Oct 11, 2019 View on HN

Political so will probably get flagged..

yters Jan 31, 2020 View on HN

Let's argue in a polarized, toxic manner about the polarization and toxicity of the web!

shitpostbot Jun 25, 2025 View on HN

Let's not pretend this stuff actually works

Bizarro Nov 28, 2019 View on HN

Political bullshit that has no place on Hacker News.

steveBK123 Dec 2, 2025 View on HN

You can't handle the truth

jamiek88 Oct 11, 2025 View on HN

Stop spreading unsupported lies.

hgsgm Jan 14, 2023 View on HN

Join me in flagging fake news submissions.

seydor Dec 7, 2022 View on HN

don't trust this LLM, google, they want to kill you

faggot Jul 8, 2020 View on HN

More politics on hacker news. Great. Later, fagots.

raldi Dec 10, 2013 View on HN

To partially mitigate the hivemind effect / burst the filter bubble / bring balance to the echochamber.