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I think of myself (based on commenting/posting history) as more politically-inclined than the average techie, but I find HN’s mix of tech and politics to be generally good. That might be because I can go elsewhere (e.g. Twitter) to discuss more political things, and thus have an implicit preference for HN to be less political. But I’m interested in what others think would be the ideal mix?

For example, here’s the front page from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-07-07

I’m on mobile so I’m only skimming, but if you sorted that day list by upvotes, the 4th most upvoted story would be the one about a new African trade coalition (450+ upvotes). There’s also a 200+ upvoted submission about FBI/ICE having access to state driver license photos. And a bunch of other sub-100 upvoted threads that are political, or aren’t explicitly tech — e.g. forest kindergarten, FCC and robocallers, the Durian King. And this doesn’t account for the tech articles in which politics are prominently discussed, e.g. anything to do with the Boeing 737 MAX.

Seems like a solid mix to me, even as at least a third of the tech-focused submissions don’t interest me (e.g. Lisp and RaptorJIT). There’s enough political content for that day that if I wanted to read only non-tech HN threads, I’d have my fill.