The owners of Palantir paid to get it buried, so the hoard showed up and did their thing.

Most HN posts about anything controversial are flagged to death until nobody can learn about a given topic

I’ve come to realize that HN doesn’t actually represent any facet of actual hacker culture

It’s by and for established tech VCs and the types of startups that get funded

In today’s political climate, HN is ultra-conservative in terms of what ideas are welcomed for discussion and that couldn’t be further from what hackers really stand for

Yup, without a doubt.

I wonder if they’ll feel any guilt or responsibility when it all burns down for not letting hackers talk about things that very clearly need to be talked about.